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With over 18,000 season tickets sold and a passionate crowd sure to show, MLS and ESPN seem to have made a safe bet to showcase the league's newest club.
While the preliminary schedule will not be released until tomorrow, some info is leaking out.
We learned about this when we were sent an email from a good friend of ours, Sounder at Heart.
Here is the article they sent.
Courtesy of the Seattle Times:
Seattle Sounders FC will kick off the 2009 Major League Soccer regular season against the New York Red Bulls on a Thursday night, March 19, at Qwest Field, according to a source with knowledge of the schedule.
The match, which will be televised nationally on ESPN2 and ESPNDeportes (Spanish), will start at 6 p.m. It will be the opening game of the entire MLS regular season. The Red Bulls lost in the MLS Cup, the league championship game, to Columbus on Nov. 23.
MLS will announce the game Tuesday, along with the schedule for the league's first week of matches, and also the home openers for every team. The full MLS schedule will be announced in January.
What a tease. We have to wait four months for this.
nice, the freshman versus the comeback-kings runner-up team. what a way to open the season! I can't wait! ^.^
(WHY must it be four long months?)
This is a waste. The league should open with a big name game (Columbus or maybe the Galaxy if they have any stars left), then save the first Sounder's home game for the next week so it will be a draw itself.
Ideally I think I would open with the Galaxy hosting someone, anyone really, then the next week we could get the first Sounders Home game, the third week we get a title rematch between crew and nyrb, then the forth week we get a superclassico Galaxy vs Chivas. Maybe the 5th week we get Revolution/DC or DC/NY.
The fact that the opening game is the first game of the year is a big enough draw to pull in viewers even if the teams aren't great... then set up the first Sounders game, then get some rivalry games on TV.
Awesome!!! In fact, don´t really matter who is playing, the important is have MLS on TV. More TV = More Money = More Publicity = Maybe more fans?
I think "Anonymous" is missing a key part of this whole thing. The atmosphere at Qwest is going to blow viewers minds. I think that alone is enough to get people to stick around. I watched TFC matches for the crowd and the soccer, and maybe this is a great way to show the rest of the world that MLS can have passionate AMERICAN teams too.
will it blow our minds?
This is their first game, they wont have their chants co-ordinated.
Heck, they may not even show up on time as they dont know where their seats are.
First game at BMO was good, but it was nothing compared to when Dichio scored the first goal.
p.s
Give out seat cushions
The chants should be pretty well coordinated given that the Seattle Sounders have been around for a while before MLS. It will be a great atmosphere, and finding seats is a bit rediculous of an argument to take from an atmosphere.
What's the status on supporters groups for seattle? Can we bank on a large group of consolidated hardcores like in Chicago, DC and Toronto? Or will it be like LA with the seats full but a small hardore section?
TFC! TFC! TFC!