Mike Petke

The league’s first game was an eye opener, but in a good way. The Seattle Sounders , an MLS expansion team , managed to sell 32,000 tickets for their first home game against last year’s MLS Cup finalists, Red Bull New York. They also managed to make the Red Bulls look like the expansion team, by crushing them for an emphatic 3-0 win, and generally giving the fans in Seattle something to cheer about, again, and again. Freddy Montero , the Sounders’ 21 year old Colombian striker was the star of the show against New York. He scored the club’s first ever MLS goal ... Read Full Story

New York Red Bulls defender Mike Petke has been suspended two games and fined $500 for inappropriate comments toward an officiating crew. Major League Soccer announced the penalties Tuesday. The comments came during the Red Bulls' 2-1 loss at Toronto FC on June 13. The suspension and fine are in addition to an automatic one-game suspension he received for getting a red card and the automatic fine of $750 for two cautions, which resulted in an ejection. Petke's fines total $1,250. He'll miss games at Toronto FC on Wednesday and on the road against Columbus Crew on Saturday. The Red Bulls are 2-10-4, last ... Read Full Story

Seattle players rejoice after Brad Evans (third from l.) scores first-half goal Thursday night on way to Sounders’ rout of Red Bulls in expansion club’s debut. SEATTLE - If you didn’t know better, you would have sworn the Red Bulls, and not the Seattle Sounders, were the expansion team playing its first game Thursday night. That’s how embarrassing the Red Bulls were in their 3-0 loss to open the Major League Soccer season. The Red Bulls hardly looked like the team that reached the MLS Cup final last season. They did very little right as their attack could not get untracked, many players lacked ... Read Full Story

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