Major League Soccer announced its finalists for the 2017 end-of-year awards, and two Seattle Sounders made the cut.
MLS nominated Clint Dempsey for Comeback Player of the Year and Stefan Frei for Goalkeeper of the Year. The league also nominated the Sounders as a club for the Fair Play award.
The Comeback Player of the Year award “honors a player who has overcome injuries and/or adversity in order to achieve success during the 2017 regular season.” Dempsey missed the final third of the 2016 regular season and the entire Audi 2016 MLS Cup Playoffs with an irregular heartbeat.