Seattle Sounders May Have To Play Kitsap Pumas On One Day's Rest

by Jeremiah Oshan on Jun 21, 2011 2:58 PM PDT in Sounders: US Open Cup

With the Seattle Sounders potentially playing their third-round U.S. Open Cup match on one day's rest, Miguel Montano will almost certainly get some playing time. (Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images)

If the Kitsap Pumas beat the Real Colorado Foxes in tonight's U.S. Open Cup second in Bremerton, they would play the Seattle Sounders at Starfire on June 28. As you may have noticed, the Sounders play the New England Revolution on June 26. You don't have to be a math wiz to see that the Sounders would have to play that match on just one day's rest. If the Sounders end up playing the Foxes, the match will be held on June 30.

Playing against a PDL side, chances are the Sounders probably won't be fielding too many players from their first team, anyway, but this almost guarantees that they'll have to use a team of almost all reserves. That probably means we'll see the likes of Michael Tetteh, David Estrada, Taylor Graham, Mike Seamon and Terry Boss, who have made one MLS appearance between them this year. The good news is that all of these players have logged significant minutes for the Sounders reserves, who are 6-0-0 this season.

Sounders coach Sigi Schmid, assistant coach Kurt Schmid and general manager Adrian Hanauer will be going to the Kitsap Peninsula for tonight's game to scout the teams.

Tickets for the third-round match will go on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. and will be available through the CenturyLink Field and Starfire box offices for no handling charge. If you can't make it out to one of the stadiums, TicketMaster will also have tickets. This year there are two tiers of tickets with covered seats going for $16 and uncovered seats on the south end going for $12.

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Believe the date at Starfire was moved

To June 29th, regardless of opponent. That’s what USSF states:
http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Lamar-Hunt-U-S-Open-Cup/2011/06/US-Soccer-Announces-Possible-Hosts-for-Third-Round.aspx

by bmvaughn on Jun 21, 2011 3:03 PM PDT reply actions

Announcement of the dates happened today.

That link is 5 days old.

See: http://www.soundersfc.com/News/Articles/2011/06-June/US-Open-Cup-Defense-at-Home.aspx

by agtk on Jun 21, 2011 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions

These dates are ironclad

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by Jeremiah Oshan on Jun 21, 2011 3:13 PM PDT reply actions

Once USSF puts out schedule

Teams have to agree on a date. Kitsap apparently wouldn’t budge off Tuesday.

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by Jeremiah Oshan on Jun 21, 2011 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Hard to blame them at this point. I’d agree to the day that was one day after my potential opponent as well. And I’m sure they have other reasons, I’m just being a troll.

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by Perrinbar on Jun 21, 2011 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions

Eh, I think their reasons are pretty obvious...

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by Jeremiah Oshan on Jun 21, 2011 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions

You know, I have to say that it is hard to convince MLS teams to “take it seriously” if that kind of scheduling can happen. I mean that’s a pretty nasty turnaround for anyone and it’s a little BS to have to deal with it frankly. Oh well, I guess we’ll see where we put our emphasis.

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by Perrinbar on Jun 21, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions

If a MLS Reserve side can't beat a PDL side

it isn’t about taking things seriously. It is about not being good that day.
Kitsap is a pro-PDL team, but still they make much less than MLS Reserves, and several have been cut from MLS sides.

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by Dave Clark on Jun 22, 2011 7:57 AM PDT up reply actions

Fair enough point, but I don’t think that should play into scheduling. If I’m an MLS coach and in a position where I have to take the MLS season seriously, I can’t adjust my lineups to take this game into account and while I suspect we’ll be fine, I don’t know that every team has a reserve side that is going to be able to handle things as well. Part of making the tournament more important has got to be getting MLS teams to focus more on it, but this type of thing doesn’t help.

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by Perrinbar on Jun 22, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs