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On Formations
With a new sport comes a whole new raft of terminology to pick up. Dave thought it'd be nice to get everyone familiar with the formations (i.e. the way players are set up in the field) commonly used i...
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About The Offside Rule
I'm getting a lot of questions about the offside trap lately, so I thought I'd write a primer. It has to be useful to someone, right? The Offside Rule The offside rule attempts to prevent soccer fro...
Steve Zakuani - Generation WOW
For those that thought that Seattle was running a 4-4-2, it was Steve Zakuani that they found the most frustrating. Even if you thought that they ran the diamond midfield, Zakuani frustrated. Most of ...
More on Sigi's Arrow
Let's take a deeper look at Sigi's Arrow. We shall examine my interpretation of the system as the Sounders ended the season, both on offense and defense. How they countered the deep ball, and how th...
Boxing Day Links Roundup
In what I hope I can make a weekly endeavor I'm going to start posting a links round-up. For those that follow me on twitter most of these won't be new, but hopefully I can provide greater context now...
Osvaldo Alonso - Holding Mid, or something more?
Early in the season Seattle fans went from wondering who the Cuban exile is, to instead knowing that not only was he a solid player from the USL-1 but another great defensive midfielder in the le...
Combination Play: Leo and Zakuani
Bossing the Flanks So let's start with a quick run down on the interplay between wide midfielder and full-back in modern soccer. The wide areas of the pitch are far less dangerous than the centre, so ...
Keys to 2nd Leg at Houston Dynamo
Being wary of repeating oneself, I still have to think about how this team in Rave Green plays. When are they at their best, and when do they struggle? The defining moments of this s...
Leg One Learnings
There are a few things we learned from the frustrating result Thursday. In ways they will influence how we watch and appreciate the Sounders performance on the road next Sunday. In other ways, they ...
... if this is a dream I want to stay asleep - update
That line is from Sigi Schmid, but I think it relates to so many of us after this first season. I know it personally feels that way. Last night, with all of the pomp, with the win, it was one of my ...
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