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Omar Hassan earns MVP honors at Vlatko Marković Tournament | Seattle Sounders
All eyes were on Omar Hassan at the Vlatko Marković tournament after the Sounders Academy winger showcased a round of standout performances that ultimately supported the U.S. U-15 team toward a championship win over Japan on May 19.
So much so, he was named MVP of the five-day event.
“It meant everything to me,” said Hassan.
The 14-year-old kicked off the tournament strong, tallying a brace in the U.S.’s matchup against England. While it resulted in a 4-3 loss, the USYNT managed to solidify wins over Croatia and Morocco, before securing the tournament title with Hassan’s lone goal in the final.
His MVP honors and overall impact at the tournament came as no surprise for Sounders U-15 Head Coach Brayton Knapp.
“Omar is a threat because of his pace and ability to continually run at defenders, whether he has the ball or whether he’s defending,” said Knapp. “And so I think that led to a lot of his success at the event from some of his goals being 1-v-1 actions or coming off of pressing defenders.”
Hassan believes his prior training with the Sounders prepared him for the international showcase.
“I think having me play up with U-17’s and training with [Tacoma] Defiance really showed that the Sounders really want to help me improve and it’s really helped me develop a lot,” said Hassan.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
Seattle Sports staff made additions to this post.
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