TUKWILA, Wash. – After the Seattle Sounders clinched the 2016 MLS Western Conference Championship with a 1-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Nov. 27, the three Sounders who have been there since the beginning huddled together separately in the raucous, champagne-soaked visiting locker room.
As their teammates danced and celebrated one room over, Sounders MLS originals captain Brad Evans, Osvaldo Alonso and Zach Scott took a moment to admire their first Western Conference championship trophy and reflect on everything that had led to the historic position in which they now find themselves – with a chance to win the club’s first MLS Cup at Toronto on Dec.