Preseason Match 1 - July 18th, 2009: Seattle Sounders FC vs. Chelsea FC

[Kazuma]

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Qwest Stadium
Seattle, Washington.

3:00 PM EST

8:00 PM GMT

US TV: ESPN 2

UK TV: Chelsea TV

CN TV: N/A

[Bruckner283]

Game is tomorrow, sir. The 18th not the 17th. On a related note: It does my heart good to see match threads again.

[Kazuma]

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=100860906593379&ref=mf

[yasik19]

I hope we win. Our whole season is riding on this game. Man, I'm nervous.

[fernb8]

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[fernb8]

I expect we will see almost two different teams per the norm over the past few seasons. One team in the first and a host of subs leading to a new team in the second half. Really going to be interesting to see who Carlo starts as his first team.

[Lamps>Gerrard]

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=100860906593379&ref=mf

LOL at Mikel's dancing at the end. :o

[Kazuma]

I expect we will see almost two different teams per the norm over the past few seasons. One team in the first and a host of subs leading to a new team in the second half. Really going to be interesting to see who Carlo starts as his first team.

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~1725937,00.html

[Tread]

Three pictures from Chelsea's website of them arriving in Seattle, including this one of Terry:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-413-Seattle-Soccer-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Sounders-FC-v-Chelsea-Why-the-result-does-and-doesnt-matter (http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-413-Seattle-Soccer-Examiner%7Ey2009m7d17-Sounders-FC-v-Chelsea-Why-the-result-does-and-doesnt-matter)

http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/0,,10268%7E6581293,00.jpg



Per the Chelsea twitter feed:

Yesterday:

Landed in Seattle!

Now at the team hotel, the team are about to take a walk and stretch their legs.

Today:

The boys are all up for breakfast and preparing to head out for training.

At the Seattle Seahawks' training base - it's huge!

Been watching Ballack, Drogba and JT taking some tips from Seahawks QB Matt Hasselbeck. They best stick to the round ball.

Didier looks impressed with the scale of things here in the US.

http://twitter.com/stamfordthelion

http://www.cpconsult.us/images/seahawks.jpg
Seattle Seahawks training facility

[Tread]

Sounders' Fredrik Ljungberg (who played for Arsenal from '98 to '07):

“It’s important, I think, for them [Chelsea] to win the game,” said Ljungberg, who as a star for Arsenal scored the winning goal to beat Chelsea in the title game of the FA Cup, England’s cup championship. “If you’re the big team and you go somewhere to play exhibition games it never looks good to lose the game. So whatever condition they are in, they will do what they can to win the game.”

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090717/SPORTS/707179831/1004

[srd....]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/dragona/awjeeznotthiscrapagain.jpg

[slipereypete]

http://www.blackdogdualsport.com/Pics/tread-lightly.gif

[mshankb]

Since when did they not do Chelsea TV online? The last two pre-season tours I've watched the games on the web. Chelsea TV isn't on Virgin Media, which is what I have. Gosh darn it.

[fernb8]

its not going to last long.

[Cris 09]

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Qwest Stadium
Seattle, Washington.

3:00 PM EST

8:00 PM GMT

US TV: ESPN 2

UK TV: Chelsea TV

CN TV: N/A
They play at noon on the west coast??

[yasik19]

They play at noon on the west coast??

Yes, so 9 am EST.

[Cris 09]

Yes, so 9 am EST.
:confused:

We are 3 hours ahead, dude...

[Kerry Dixon's Boots]

Yes, so 9 am EST.

Put the pipe down Yas mate :p

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/uncle-sam/images/stop-smoking.jpg

[Brook]

KDB-- I'm guessing EddieBa26 hasn't seen your "Foe" yet?!

[Ben7021]

oh ffs