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Update: Thursday, Sept. 3, 8:56 a.m.
Seattle won its first piece of hardware: the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The Sounders, Major League Soccer’s newest club, defeated one of the league’s most storied teams, D.C. United, 2-1, on Wednesday. Freddy Montero and Roger Levesque scored for the expansion Sounders to give them the victory.
One of the oldest sporting competitions in the United States also remains one of the most obscure.
Welcome to Wednesday night’s final of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Kickoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington, where D.C. United will face the Seattle Sounders in an all-Major League Soccer final.
The game will be the 96th national championship, dating to 1914 when the Brooklyn Field Club defeated Brooklyn Celtic, 2-1, to win what was then known as the National Challenge Cup’s Dewar Trophy (yes, that Dewar). The trophy had been presented by Sir Thomas R. Dewar to American soccer officials in England ahead of the 1912 London Olympics in the belief that a competition modeled after the English F.A. Cup (and other tournaments around the world) would help to promote the game in the United States. If only. More...
Let's watch who will be the winner...
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