Seattle Sounders

Sounders keeper Stefan Frei signed a two-year contract through the 2025 season, the club announced Tuesday.

SEATTLE – Between the expected departure of captain Nico Lodeiro and celebrations for the club’s 50th anniversary, the Seattle Sounders are transitioning to a new era. It’s perfect timing for a restructuring of the roster.

SEATTLE – Whether the Sounders were going to lose Sunday evening was a 50-50 proposition. They had a nearly identical record to that of Los Angeles FC and held their own with the club in their two meetings this year.

SEATTLE – A chorus of boos swirled around Lumen Field. Los Angeles FC took their time leaving their locker room during halftime. A delay the visitors could take since they led the Sounders by a goal in the Western Conference semifinal match Sunday.

Stefan Frei will be in goal for the Sounders for at least two more years, according to a report Wednesday by Sounder At Heart. The club declined to comment.

With just one goal, the Sounders FC kept their season alive.

The Sounders FC’s playoff run again laid at the feet of Nouhou.

SEATTLE – Go ahead and call it. If Nouhou is high in the offensive attack, something fantastical is going to happen.

A refreshing feeling overtook the night air Saturday in Missouri.

A sign the Sounders truly resuscitated their season was within grasp Saturday.

Things might have seemed lost, but not to Reed Baker-Whiting.

A special energy was felt throughout the halls of the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital on Thursday as a unique guest spent a couple of hours uplifting and energizing the kids.

SEATTLE – Debate after Saturday’s meltdown might focus on a silly rule regarding getting a yellow card for removing your shirt to celebrate a goal.

It seems unfair for Yeimar Gomez Andrade to be at the center of Sunday’s match.

There likely won’t be a Sounders match with more equal footing than Sunday’s against Atlanta United.

Delirium filled Lumen Field before the players could break a sweat.

Some lessons professionals are supposed to learn as youths. Play until a referee’s whistle is blown is a basic one.

TUKWILA – Up until last week, questions about the Sounders’ lackluster performance of late would be silenced by one fact: The team was second in MLS’ Western Conference standings.

SEATTLE – Perhaps it was unrealistic to think Saturday would be a bounty of goals for the Sounders. Coach Brian Schmetzer had all his first-choice players available for the first time in months, yet some hadn’t been back a week while others were still shaking off rust from recent injuries.