US Open Cup Bracket Revealed - Sounders Await Results
by Dave Clark on Jun 1, 2011 3:03 PM PDT
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PrintThe USSF has released the pairings for the First and Second Round of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. But considering the regional nature of the tournament, rather than seeding, the Seattle Sounders will have to wait until after the First Round is complete to discover their opponent and venue to defend the 2010 and 2009 Cups. That Third Round match will be on June 28th, just two days after the match with the Revolution.
Locally the Kitsap Pumas or the Portland Timbers U-23 squad will earn the right to travel to El Paso to face Chivas El Paso Patriots in a match up of PDL sides. This illustrates one of the problems with the lower levels of American soccer right now. That's a fairly short trip, as the West is relatively devoid of teams at the D3 and D4 level for the Open Cup. The two early round regional brackets feature several teams from So Cal and then one from Colorado, El Paso, Portland, and Bremerton. There are three MLS teams bracketed and so one of the MLS teams is likely to have a long trip, or force a barely pro or less team into a trip of a couple thousand miles.
Real Salt Lake, the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Sounders are all the MLS teams awaiting the results from this small in team quantity region waiting for the eight teams to become two. The other MLS sides are going to be in brackets more conducive to regionalization.
Check TheCup.US for their Bracket or Map of the teams qualified for the tournament.
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Hard to say we can't know their MLS competition yet
Whoever faces the Galaxy
Whoever faces Dallas
Both will put heavy priority on MLS play.
Fire may not be good, but they may make a run on the Open Cup
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They'll actually have an eligible team next year
as they are starting a PDL side.
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Why aren't the NASL teams eligible? I can't remember
Did the league not get sanctioned in time?
by B-Lot tailgater on Jun 2, 2011 8:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Correct
At least that’s what USSF claimed at the time.
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Thanks, looks like their original url collapsed or somesuch
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After looking at that map
I now really really want the Sounders to play the NY Panciprian Freedoms in the final since I’m pretty sure they were the last squad to 2-peat. It would be sort of cool to smoke them for the 3-peat. Of course, they have a ways to go before they hit the finals, but hopefully we’ll be waiting… :)
Having the Freedoms make the Final would be a great story too
fully amatuer side v big money MLS team
I mean Seattle might need to pay for the Freedoms travel.
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That would be an awesome story game
The Freedoms have one of the oldest, and most prestigious records in the tournament going back to pre-MLS days. The Sounders want to be the team that dominates the Open Cup in the current era. Sounds like a great story to me…except we play the role of the big, bad guy to the plucky underdog.
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