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Training Camp Day One: Style to come, Oba gets chippy, trialists galore

Day one of the 2014 training camp opened with a double session. The morning was cold and the afternoon was nearly sunny, but still a bit of a chill.

By Dave Clark@bedirthan Jan 25, 2014, 7:06pm PST

With about 100 fans in attendance Seattle Sounders FC opened their 2014 training camp with a morning session that featured several small sided games. The afternoon session featured fitness followed by finishing drills.

Joseph no longer in Sounders' plans

Jeremiah Oshan

The veteran forward is training back on the East Coast. Shalrie is not expected to be with the club this year.

Sigi expects a style, not a formation

Jeremiah Oshan

Call it an amoeba, or whatever, Sigi will coach to the talent he has on the team. There will be two forwards, Dempsey will play behind them and Yedlin will attack. All else is built around that.

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Leo Gonzalez had a surgery but is expected to be fully participating during the Carolina Challenge Cup.
Wil Bates is carrying a minor knock.
Oba expects his experience with learning new forward partners will help him during the preseason.
He was mum about looking for a loan - "I think right now I'm not going to talk about anything right now because I'm back in Seattle."
There is no number one keeper, yet. Stefan Frei said, "I'm going to try to learn as much from Hahneman as I can he's played for some top teams in the world with tons of experience so I'll watch him."
He also knows what's going on over in Toronto. "I've heard they made a couple of changes. That's nothing new over there. I'm sure they'll be a good team. They have a couple new faces, just like here. Preseason is really the time to get to know each other and gel and work hard hard to get ready for the season and I'm sure they're doing the same thing over there."
During the fitness session Aaron Kovar paced off of David Estrada.
In the partnered finishing drills Oba chipped one of the keepers - IN A FINISHING DRILL.
There are a couple more trialists in camp than we previously knew. We'll have profiles on them shortly. Oh, one was not revealed to the media.

This depth chart lists Lowe on the roster as he has a contract. All draftees without contracts and other trialists are listed in the fourth block. This will be maintained through the preseason.

From left: Kovar, Parsemain, Stefan Frei, John McCarthy (GK), Damion Lowe, Hahnemann, Zavaleta, Marshall, Ockford, Dzenan Catic. (© 2014 Mike Russell | www.mikerussellfoto.com)

Training Camp Day One: Style to come, Oba gets chippy, trialists galore

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