Cascadia Summit 2012 Canceled: Sounders Eye Friendly With Latin American Team
by Jeremiah Oshan on Dec 1, 2011 2:44 PM PST
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PrintThe Cascadia Summit will be taking at least a one-year hiatus. The news about the preseason, round-robin tournament between the Seattle Sounders, Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps was officially broken by Timbers owner Merritt Paulson in this tweet:
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Merritt Paulson@piltdownman7 there will be no summit in 2012. SEA CONCACAF sched makes it near impossible plus we now have another reg season game anyway
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That news was confirmed by Sounders general manager Adrian Hanauer, who said they are in the process of trying to schedule a friendly against a Latin-American team on Feb. 29 in preparation for their CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal match against Santos Laguna on March 7.
In a conversation earlier this year, Paulson had told me that the plan was to host this year's Cascadia Summit in Portland with next year's Summit potentially moving to Vancouver. It's unclear where this year's cancellation leaves future Summits.
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I think cancelling it definitely a good idea
I mean a mini preseason rivalry competition is great and all but it doesn’t really mean anything… and the Timbers and Whitecaps are not good enough to be much of a warmup for a team like Santos.
I hope they play at least a couple games against Latin and/or better teams. Even LA and/or Toronto wouldn’t be a terrible idea because they are both in the competition as well and both teams playing would benefit. I think it would push the players to want to preform better and maybe even close to a real game feel.
I think the Timbers will be better next year
I think with a year of gelling as a team and a couple foreign signings and they’ll be playoff caliber. I think they’ would have been a good warmup especially with the short travel. Whitecaps probably wn’t be much of a challenge, but that’s what reserves are for.
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I'd love it if Latin American meant Brazilian one of these years
As a fan of Corinthians, it would be a double treat to see the Sounders beat Palmeiras.
Brazil to Seattle in late Feb seems unlikely
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Did AH intone that the friendly would be here?
We can get to several Primera clubs quite easily. No reason not to travel for us if not too far.
by Brougham Hooligan on Dec 1, 2011 9:31 PM PST up reply actions
Except that we don't make the money in that case
Which is mostly the point of the friendlies.
Not preseason ones against smaller teams
Those are for getting match-ready.
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by s0merand0mdude on Dec 2, 2011 9:16 AM PST up reply actions
Big reading comprehension fail on my part on all this
My bad. I was reading this as The Friendly, when it’s really a friendly. Still, it would be cool to see a Brazilian team up here for a big match someday.
I get the feeling yes
but I’m not sure. Considering this would be done to prep for the CCL game and opening week is here, I would expect it to be here.
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There’s never any crime in Sao Paulo when Corinthians play….because all the thugs and lowlifes are at their games! Or so the saying goes in Sao Paulo. Agreed, though, would love to see a Brazilian team in Seattle one of these years. Saw Palmeiras-SPFC a couple years back and it was truly awesome.
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