Seattle Sounders await? Real Madrid win Champions League title over Liverpool | MLSSoccer.com

As for different Membership World Cup-bound squads, this yr’s Copa Libertadores (South America) and AFC Championship (Asia) are getting into their knockout spherical phases. On Monday, the CAF Champions League last (Africa) can be contested between Al Ahly (Egypt) and Wydad AC (Morocco).

Whoever awaits Seattle, it’s a tantalizing alternative for arguably MLS’s mannequin membership, one which’s made the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs 13 straight instances since getting into the league as an growth aspect in 2009. They’ve additionally gained two MLS Cups (2016, ‘19), one Supporters’ Protect (2014) and 4 US Open Cups (2009, ‘10, ‘11, ‘14).

And realizing how head coach Brian Schmetzer’s crew tends to method each sport, they’d like their possibilities of getting a outcome in opposition to a Spanish powerhouse aspect that has no equal within the UCL area.

Seattle additionally aren’t afraid of the most important levels, changing into CCL winners earlier than a record-breaking crowd of 68,741 followers at Lumen Discipline. That accomplishment ended a stretch of 4 MLS golf equipment arising brief in earlier CCL finals.