TUKWILA, Wash. — Zach Scott is retiring at the end of the 2016 season, and the only one seemingly uninterested by it is, in fact, Zach Scott.
The Seattle Sounders veteran defender has been with the club since 2002. He spent the first six years of his professional career with the USL Sounders and is the only remaining player on Seattle’s roster from its pre-MLS days.
He is fondly known as Mr. Sounder, but it’s neither a moniker he wants nor one with which he is comfortable. As he prepares for his final regular-season match on Sunday in Seattle’s Decision Day home fixture against Real Salt Lake (1 p.