Seattle Soccer

Last night we went to see our first Major League Soccer game at Qwest Field (our first time there as well), courtesy of some season-ticket-holding colleagues of mine: an international friendly game between the Seattle Sounders and the Boca Jrs. I know very little about soccer, but the Boca Jrs are a world cup-league team, and it was expected that they would dominate Seattle.

It was really fun, first of all because we woke up to one of the dreariest days of May so far (which is saying something) and watched it puke down rain all day long. Thankfully that little system spent itself out by 7pm when we got to the open-air stadium, and it proceeded to clear off and warm up a little, ultimately presenting us with a full-moon spectacle as we made our way to the car after the match.

Second of all, they have glitter guns that they use to shoot out huge wads of 2" shiny metallic confetti whenever something good (like a goal) happens, which was a surprisingly lovely effect...I was entranced (they never have glitter at baseball games)!

Finally, Seattle kicked the Boca Jrs collective asses 3-0! It was very exciting, a high-scoring game for soccer, but clean and well-played - it reminded me of hockey, except when they send that ball flying down the field they don't have blades on their feet to help them keep pace. Those players ran their asses off for 90 minutes!!

I think we'll go again, for sure.