SEATTLE — Sunday night was a long time coming for Aaron Kovar.
The Seattle Sounders Homegrown midfielder broke his collarbone last July in the U.S. Open Cup and missed 13 games before returning as a substitute in the penultimate match of the 2016 Major League Soccer regular season. He did not play in the playoffs during Seattle’s run to MLS Cup and then suffered a groin injury in the offseason, which kept him sidelined for the first 14 games of the 2017 season.
At last, in the 54th minute on Sunday in the Sounders’ 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo, Kovar checked in.