Major League Soccer announced on Thursday that Seattle Sounders defender Chad Marshall has been voted the Etihad Airways MLS Player of the Month for September, the second straight such honor given to a Sounders player this season.
Marshall joins Sounders midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro as winners of the award after the Uruguayan import received the nod in August. Marshall is also the first defender to win the award this season.
Marshall anchored the Sounders' back four at center back all month en route to a 3-0-1 record. Seattle recorded two clean sheets and allowed just three goals, the fewest in the league over that span.