Clint Dempsey admits he viewed things a bit differently this regular season, which concludes Sunday for the Sounders at home against Colorado.
A year after missing the end of the season and entire MLS Cup playoff run with an irregular heartbeat, one of the greatest soccer players America has known is now looking ahead beyond this weekend. With his Sounders poised to finish as high as second in the Western Conference, Dempsey, at age 34, realizes this is his do-over chance to take another shot at being on the field for a league title.
“Maybe it helped me to think about things little a bit more,’’ Dempsey said of the heart condition, which sidelined him from late August 2016 until training camp last February.