SEATTLE – It’s never easy for players or head coaches to publicly vent their frustrations about referees in Major League Soccer, but it’s just as tough to completely hide some roiling emotions about controversial calls that define a game.
Seattle Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid and a handful of players walked that fine line Saturday night following the team’s 2-1 loss to Vancouver Whitecaps FC, arguably the team’s most vexing defeat yet of a franchise-record three-game losing streak to open the season.
The Whitecaps walked out of CenturyLink Field with the win in no small part due to to a pair of penalty kicks awarded their way on each side of halftime.