Some Soccer News for August 8, 2012
du Nord, August 8, 2012
LAMAR HUNT U.S. OPEN CUP FINAL - TONIGHT Joe the Curmudgeon sitting in today, as Dear Leader El Brucio is cruising down I-35 from Minneapolis to Kansas City for tonight's Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final between the three-time consecutive reigning champion Seattle Sounders and Sporting Kansas City. Watch the match from LIVESTRONG Sporting Park tonight on GolTV at 9pm ET - 8pm CT - 7pm MT - 6pm PT. Kansas City, who won the Cup themselves in 2004 as the Wizards, will be without Aurelien Collin, due to yellow card accumulation. Sounders FC are on a roll, coming off of their 4-0 beat down of Los Angeles Galaxy in MLS play Sunday night in front of 60,908 of their very happy hometown fans. HOW THEY GOT HERE (hat tip to US Soccer): A look at the earlier U.S. Open Cup matches of tonight's finalists: Sporting Kansas City Third Round (May 29): Sporting Kansas City (MLS) 3, Orlando City Soccer Club (USL PRO) 2: Scoring: SKC - Paulo Nagamura 45+2; Soony Saad 65, 68; ORL - Kevin Molino 55; Dennis Chin 84 Fourth Round (June