Four decades later, Adrian Webster still gets goose bumps reliving his greatest Sounders moments.
It was the 1977 playoffs, and team captain Webster’s third-place Sounders had pulled off a string of upsets to qualify for that year’s Soccer Bowl title game.
The still-fledgling franchise was making its first North American Soccer League championship appearance and despite eventually falling 2-1 to the New York Cosmos in legend Pele’s final game, Webster believes the seeds were sown for this region’s love affair with the sport.
“I think the pinnacle was the semifinal when we had 56,000 in the Kingdome,” said Webster, in town and at a Sounders workout Thursday, said of the two-game series win over the Los Angeles Aztecs.