"When you get an opportunity like that one and you don't take advantage," the Paraguayan international said Tuesday, "it makes you want to shoot yourself."
English is not Nelson Valdez’s first language — it’s not even his second, third or fourth. But the veteran Sounders forward has picked up a couple of choice swear words for situations such as these.
Valdez used a double explicative when asked t0 describe his initial reaction to his miss of a wide-open net in Seattle’s win at Orlando City on Sunday. He’d entered as a second-half substitute in a match the Sounders already led 3-1.