Every year about this time we look back on the truncated MLS offseason and wonder where the time went. As onlookers, we’re afforded that luxury.
Players and coaches are not. Time to suit up.
Just months after a brutal Walker Zimmerman penalty kick sent the Seattle Sounders home for a wet winter hibernation, they’re back back on the grind for the first time in MLS play against Sporting Kansas City on Sunday (4 p.m. PT; Fs1/KIRO 97.3 FM/El Rey 1360 AM), the beginning of one of the most anticipated seasons in recent Sounders history.
As far as Seattle is concerned, bowing out of the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League to Club América on Wednesday could prove to be a shrouded blessing.