Zach Scott first joined the Seattle Sounders back in 2002 after effectively winning a spot through an open tryout. He was never the Sounders’ best player, not even during those USL days. He was not among the players expected to make the jump to MLS, but he managed to make the team anyway and even started the regular-season opener.
Still, Scott didn’t seem long for this league. He wasn’t particularly technical or fast. He was physical enough, but he didn’t really have a defined position either. At 29 years old, he got fewer than 500 regular-season minutes in that first MLS season.