The Seattle Sounders beat Santos Laguna 2-1 and have something to defend in the second leg.
The large crowds the NASL and MLS Sounders drew over the years never surprised Frank MacDonald.
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The Sounders qualified for the NASL playoffs every year except one between 1975 and 1982.
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The Sounders would continue to draw great crowds throughout nearly their entire NASL existence.
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After adjusting for the Sounders, the average increase for MLS games was 1, 900 spectators.
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The SuperDraft, held two months later, saw the Sounders draft Steve Zakuani and Mike Fucito.
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The Sounders set about achieving such a high goal by making aggressive decisions regarding personnel.
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Washington state may work with the Seattle Sounders, a Major League Soccer team.
In addition to engaging the fans, the Sounders organization set out to avoid the typical poor performance of an expansion team.
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Its marine segment, which produced 13% of first-half sales, provides fixed and portable GPS devices such as chartplotters, sounders and fishfinders.
From 1976 to 1981 the Sounders would average more than 20, 000 fans per home match, nearly doubling the average NASL match attendance.
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"The second goal came probably after our best spell in the game, " said Lennon, whose side next face Seattle Sounders on Sunday.
He owns the Seattle Seahawks (pro football), the Portland Trailblazers (pro basketball) and is a part-owner in the Seattle Sounders FC (pro soccer).
Microsoft founder Paul Allen, who owns the Seahawks and part of the Sounders, has committed to some team promotion on the site.
The city would be passed over at least two more times before the MLS Sounders were awarded to the city in November 2007.
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"Top to bottom the Bundesliga has been better than any league in Europe, " said Sigi Schmid, the German-born coach of Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders.
It is the first time LA Galaxy have won the trophy since 2002 and they now begin their play-off campaign against Seattle Sounders on Sunday.
But Seattle Sounders and their remarkable fans accounted for 733, 000 and alone boosted the average for the entire league by over 1, 400 fans per game.
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In other MLS news Tim Cahill joins the New York Red Bulls while Honduran midfielder Mario Martinez moves to Seattle Sounders on loan from Real Espana.
At the same time as they were pressing the flesh the Sounders ownership turned to the community when it came to naming the new MLS franchise.
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Uhlman and Trail theorize such fans took a wait-and-see approach to the Sounders, and were convinced to buy season tickets after attending a few inaugural season matches.
Even before sonar depth sounders were available, navigators would also use lead lines to determine the depth of the water as a cross check on where they were.
In 2007 it was announced that an ownership group of wealthy investors and the ownership of the USL Sounders had secured the rights to an MLS expansion franchise.
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Only after nearly half the votes were cast for some variation of the Sounders name via write-ins did the management team decide to name the club Seattle Sounders FC.
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Quiz any true Sounders fans about what gets their competitive juices flowing, and they will talk at length about the passions ignited by their intense rivalry with their Pacific Northwestern neighbours the Portland Timbers.
The final piece of the puzzle fell into place when the Sounders signed MLS coaching legend Sigi Schmid just a month after he had won the 2008 MLS Cup with the Columbus Crew.
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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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What has not been told yet is the story of why Sounders ticket holders have turned out in such great numbers, as well as the personal stories of those who experienced the most successful expansion franchise in MLS history.
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Johnson, who spent three seasons with Fulham in England before returning to MLS last year, says that stepping on the pitch at the Seattle Sounders' CenturyLink Field is akin to playing at some of the game's most hallowed cathedrals, including Manchester United's 76, 000-seat home.
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