Part two of this three part series explores how the recreational and semi-professional players of Seattle would keep the sport alive until it was able to return to top flight US soccer.
The Sounders and NASL may have folded, but the spirit of the recreational and semi-professional players in the area would keep the sport alive until it was readmitted to top-flight soccer twenty five years later.
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