COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Sounders originals Osvaldo Alonso, Zach Scott and Brad Evans huddled around a silver trophy they’d long sought.
The visiting locker room at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park was raucous in the aftermath of Seattle’s series win over Colorado in the MLS Western Conference finals on Sunday afternoon — Champagne, Heineken and Budweiser were the alcoholic beverages of choice.
The club’s three longest-serving players found time for a quick photo op in the training room. Alonso started Sunday’s match, Scott came off the bench and Evans was a late scratch with an ankle strain. Those distinctions didn’t seem to matter as they reminisced over one of the few pieces of silverware that had managed to elude them for this long.