Updates on news, views and developments of the South Sound soccer scene.
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Don Ruiz joined The News Tribune in 1988 and has been covering sports since 1999. He is a long-time recreational soccer player and has covered the 1999 Women's World Cup championship game and a variety of international, national and local soccer matches. E-mail Don.Jon Billings is the director of communications for the Tacoma Tide. He'll be providing news, notes and updates on the Tide. E-mail Jon.
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I know I've been asking you guys to do a lot of writing recently ... but here with a seven-day break in the season and I'm wondering what you're thinking with the Sounders' inaugural season at its exact midpoint.
I'm especially interested because I have my own assessment in the Monday paper -- and once I was done writing, I had kind of surprised myself with how upbeat it was.
So, I'm wondering what you think of the 3-0 start and the 2-3-7 run that followed, which combine to leave the Sounders at 5-3-7 (fourth in the league by points, fifth by average points per result) with 15 down and 15 to go.
Overall, are they meeting expectations? Still exceeding expectations? Failing to meet the exptations that they raised with their early success? Or what?
The U.S. Men's National Team is on its way to the semifinals of the Confederation Cup after getting through on an imporbable pair of results: Brazil's 3-0 win over Italy, and team USA's 3-0 win over Egypt. (Here's the info from U.S. Soccer.)
Amazing. I knew there was a certain set of math that could get the team through, but it seemed so improbable that I mostly just rolled my eyes reading about it this morning.
Amazing. And while in the mood for miracles: Spain awaits Wednesday.
