TORONTO — As the dust has finally started to settle on the Seattle Sounders’ first-ever MLS Cup title, it’s becoming clear that the soccer world is split into two factions.
One sees the Sounders as finally ascending to the heights that had long been expected, equal parts happy for the team and to be moving past the “can’t win the big game” narrative.
The other faction, perhaps predictably, is tying themselves into knots over the supposed flukey nature of the victory. They’re only too happy to point out that the Sounders became the first MLS champion to fail to score a goal, to not even put a shot on frame and set a shot-futility record with three.