TORONTO — Years from now, when the Seattle Sounders reflect on their first MLS Cup title, the first thing they’ll remember is The Save.
At bars across Seattle: The Save. At youth soccer pitches: The Save. Anytime one mentions the Sounders’ indescribable run to end a rollercoaster 2016 season: The Save.
Some sports moments are so frozen in time, they transcend the very game in which they took part. They become, in essence, the game itself.
Goalkeeper Stefan Frei’s acrobatic, one-handed fingertip stop in the second period of extra time will go down in Seattle Sounders lore as perhaps the single greatest individual moment in franchise history.