jhon-kennedy-hurtado Stories - Sounder At Heart
Hurtado goes to IR with ACL injury
The Sounders' injury woes are getting worse before they get better. The latest bad news is that Jhon Kennedy Hurtado will miss at least the next six weeks with an ACL injury. In actuality, he's probably going to miss most of the regular season, possibly won't be ready until the playoffs and could...
Quick Review: Sounders 2 - Salt Lake 2
I promised Steve Clare that I would do the player ratings at his site for this match, and those will be up later today or tomorrow, as I will be watching this match again. But as I tended to focus on the individual performances while trying to host a party and a gamethread on occaission, there were...
Wahl Re-signs - Sounders Roster Battle gets Fierce
With the announcement of who is traveling, who is staying, who is back at school, and who is injured the re-signing of Tyson Wahl via "free agency" complicates things a little bit. It means the club has 21 on the Senior Roster and 2 on the Developmental Roster. Now if one assumes that the roster...
Sounders FC Open Camp - One Major Absence
The big news was of course the Freddie Ljungberg's absence and the statements from Kasey Keller. Keller's words were powerful, and pointed. He's likely the only player that can place those kinds of demands on Ljungberg, and he's the only one that should. "I don’t know the full story....
Jhon Kennedy Hurtado - First Sounder to Europe?
The star player on defense for the Sounders. He was used primarily as a man marker or as a kind of sweeper shutting down the second ball. Solid lateral quickness and good speed means that even though he makes mistakes, he can recover. Currently only on loan, Sounders FC have to use some of their...
Scouting Matters
And even more so in a Salary/Roster cap league. Mistakes cost more in MLS, a bad pick wastes money and a roster slot. For MLS the ability to scout talent from college, from the lower US divisions and internationally is the ability to discover players and get them at value. It is the ability to...
Keys to Beating the Cunningham Effect
If form matters, then Dallas is the one team that the Sounders don't want to face. Since September 1st they earned 16 points, best in the league. Sounders though are tied for 3rd with 10 points over that same stretch. Much of their success has been credited to one Jeff Cunningham, who must now...
Making the All Star Game better
Many MLS fans decry the All Star Game. They aren't used to it. Unlike the Playoffs, this is something without a parallel in world football. This is purely an Americanization. Frankly I like it. The voting is proper. No matter how much fans stuff the ballot the First XI are basically the top...
We're half way there
Though there's one motor gone We can still carry on Comin' in on a wing and a prayer That's not a Bon Jovi reference, but a WW II song. Ok, really its a mixed metaphor for both. In this case Sounders FC is doing some things very well, but in other areas they struggle. That's where we get to...
That's one Tired Work Crew
After another US Open Cup Qualifier win on Tuesday Sounders look to end their league match draw streak at four and pick up three points with a win over Sigi's old club. Sounders fans can take solace in the fact that Columbus has an even rougher schedule as they played at home Wednesday and wore...
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