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By his own admission, Kelvin Leerdam has lived a fortunate life. Playing in some of the biggest games European football has to offer adds to that perspective, as does helping to anchor a surging Sounders backline as the Rave Green approach the business end of their current MLS campaign. But as Sounders Monthly sits down with the Dutch fullback for his first matchday magazine feature, the conversation begins with a rivalry he knows too well.