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Remembering Bobby Moore, a West Ham legend and "the biggest signing in Seattle soccer history"

Editor's Note: Few fans familiar with the history of English soccer don't know the name Bobby Moore, a legendary defender who captained England to the 1966 World Cup and was once dubbed by Pelé as the best defender he'd ever played against. Moore earned 108 caps with England and appeared in an astonishing 544 matches with West Ham United between 1958-74, the most caps in the club's history at the time of his departure.

u200bMoore left England in the late 1970s and eventually landed with the NASL Seattle Sounders, where he spent one season with the club.