jared-karkas Stories - Sounder At Heart
Building the Reserve Team
Or "once a Sounder always a Sounder?" That's what I think when I look who has been at optional training with the Sounders. The following players are currently training with Sounders FC: Goalkeepers (3): Terry Boss, Jordan Jennings*, Kasey Keller; Defenders (12): Julien Baudet, Danny Earls,...
Discovery Signings; How the Sounders will get to 30 players
In Sigi's post draft conference call he said that he expects 28-30 players in camp. The Sounders are currently at 21 players on roster with Tyson Wahl as an unsigned Free Agent. They just drafted 3 young men who will compete, and last year's infrequently used players Fucito and Neagle will back in...
Rights Controlled Players
In Major League Soccer a team can control the rights to a player even if they are unsigned. Below you will see capsules of the players for which the Sounders control their rights, but who did not see much time, nor are they under contract for 2010. These are players who for one reason or another...
Filling Team Needs
Sometimes the question you ask leads to an unexpected answer. In my efforts to suss out the status of LWB Jared Karkas and LW Mike Fucito I made an unexpected discovery. Now some readers may have known this already, but the Sounders have a Senior Roster spot available. Why is this an unknown? ...
Competing for 3 Developmental Slots
There are now 33 players in camp or with MLS rights held by Seattle Sounders FC. Most of those are competing for a Senior Roster slot, one of 20. All players currently under contract EXCEPT Steve Zakuani are currently slotted as Seniors and can not be Developmental Players. So from the list of...
Super Draft Results - Wingers and Wingbacks!
My full draft peice was picked up by ProstAmerika. You can read it here. Quotes from General Manager Adrian Hanauer, a coach at the Combine, the coach of Harvard and covering all four players - Zakuani, Brown, Karkas, and Fucito. Also a nice little teaser of things to come, probably the long term...
Seattle Sounders Draft Review
MLS Super Draft 2009 - For Sounders FC a double serving of Wingers and Wingbacks Seattle Sounders FC had their first ever SuperDraft. For the European reader that might not mean much, as real football doesn't have a draft, while for the American reader they likely got their hopes up way to high as...
Quick thoughts on the Super Draft
I will have full thoughts late, but for now and quickly. Seattle got two first round talents today (Steve Zakuani and Evan Brown), and made a gutsy pick of a guy who might have been first round quality if healthy in Michael Fucito. It is also notable that both defensive players are Seniors, which...
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