SEATTLE — There is talk in Seattle soccer circles this week that perhaps the looming Copa America Centenario quarterfinal is the biggest soccer match in the city’s history.
A knockout match of a major tournament in one of the city’s most vociferous soccer hot beds? And the U.S. men’s national team is involved? That’ll do the trick.
There is a debate to be had, but the fact that it’s easily in the discussion adequately places the importance of the thing. The U.S. men’s national team hasn’t played in a tournament this big on its own shores in 22 years, and now the show is, perhaps improbably, coming to Seattle.