Seattle hosts Colorado on Tuesday night at CenturyLink Field in the first leg of the Western Conference finals. This is how it got there.
The Sounders were forced to sell their best player just weeks before this season. Said season will come to a head starting on Tuesday night, when CenturyLink Field hosts the club’s third-ever Western Conference finals match.
Those two sentences alone would have made for a remarkable campaign – and those bookmarks miss plenty of drama in between.
2016 saw the firing of Seattle’s first MLS coach and the eventual hiring of its second, the signing of its highest-profile Homegrown Player and his coronation as the league’s Rookie of the Year.