Monday Team Notes - Preseason Schedule and Departed Players

by sidereal on Jan 31, 2011 3:53 PM PST in Sounders: MLS Regular Season

(Doh. Collided with Jeremiah's post. I'll leave the handy schedule table up, but to discuss the Departed Players, head to that thread.)

A couple of updates from the team today. Here's the official preseason schedule:

When	Where	Who
Feb 8, 9:30am	Casa Grande, AZ	Real Salt Lake
Feb 10, 10:00am	Phoenix, AZ	Columbus Crew
Feb 12, 9:00am	Casa Grande, AZ	Chivas USA
Feb 21, 12:30pm	Orlando, FL	FC Dallas
Feb 22, 8:00am	Orlando, FL	Houston Dynamo
Feb 26, 11:00am	Bradenton, FL	Chicago Fire
Mar 4, 7:30pm	Starfire	Portland Timbers
Mar 6, 3:00pm	Starfire	Vancouver Whitecaps
Mar 9, 7:00pm	Qwest	Colorado Rapids

(I've converted all times to Pacific)

So basically you've got a week of games in Arizona, then a week of games in Florida, then the Official Cascadia Rivalry Preseason Throwdown, then the Community Shield. The schedule is a little heavy given that the Sounders will be hosting the Galaxy for MLS First Kick on March 15th, which will be the 4th match in 11 days. So the team will have to balance the desire to show well in the Cascadia tournament and the Charity Shield versus the need to make sure the team is rested and prepared for the opener.

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I'll be surprised

if any of the starters play much more than a half after the Timbers’ game.

by swansuite on Jan 31, 2011 5:58 PM PST reply actions

Does anyone know whether any of these will be televised?
Also, do we know when the Reserves schedule will come out?

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by iced on Jan 31, 2011 9:51 PM PST reply actions

come to think of it, I don’t know the first thing about the Reserves or the league they will play in…
what do we really know?

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by iced on Jan 31, 2011 9:53 PM PST up reply actions

We don't even know the full MLS schedule yet

My guess is that TV for any of the above games is unlikely. The Community Shield game will probably have inexpensive tickets and they will want to sell as many as possible (with proceeds going to charity and all) so they probably wouldn’t televise that game. The most likely game to be televised, I’d guess, is the Timbers game on FSN NW (if that’s where there games will continue to be televised this year, haven’t heard if they have a TV deal yet or what the deal is if they have one.)

by ubelmann on Feb 1, 2011 9:16 AM PST up reply actions