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	<title>Seattle Sports Photographer &#124; Rod Mar &#187; Soccer</title>
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	<description>Former Seattle Times Photographer, Rod Mar, shoots the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners, and Seattle Sounders. View his blog and image archives. Buy prints and license images.</description>
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		<title>Sounders FC: Fucito Wins It.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2010/04/sounders-fc-fucito-wins-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle Sounders FC Michael Fucito celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal in the 92nd minute against Kansas City at Qwest Field in Seattle.
Fucito substituted late into the match, then scored when he took a quick throw-in from teammate Brad Evans and one-timed a low hard shot past the diving Kansas City goalkeeper.
One of the key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC: Barcelona&#8217;s visit was a kick in the grass.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/08/sounders-fc-barcelonas-visit-was-a-kick-in-the-grass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yowch. That&#8217;s a bad pun.
Sorry. Couldn&#8217;t help it.
Actually, this is a kick in the AIR. Famed FC Barcelona footballer Thierry &#8220;I have no interest in playing for the Sounders FC at this time&#8221; Henry contorts and fires a bicycle kick shot back over his head and that of Seattle Sounders FC defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Top of the World with Messi.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/08/on-top-of-the-world-with-messi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for finding me yet again after another, and hopefully final move of my blog and website. Special thanks to my amazing wife Kari for the redesign, and for my friends Grover and Allen over at Photoshelter for the integration of my archives.
Trust me when I say that I haven&#8217;t been slacking over the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC:  Another colorful match.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/07/sounders-fc-another-colorful-match/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seattle soccer fans saw bright blue skies on Saturday, Sounders players only saw the black of Chicago keeper Jon Busch&#39;s jersey, and Freddie Ljungberg saw red, courtesy of referee&#0160;Baldomero Toledo.
Sounders FC played to a 0-0 (that&#39;s &#34;nil-nil&#34; to those of you in the know) draw with the Chicago Fire at Qwest Field, despite having multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC:  Getting Friendly with Chelsea</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/07/sounders-fc-getting-friendly-with-chelsea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounders FC played a &#34;friendly&#34; (read that, &#34;exhibition&#34; match) against Chelsea FC, one of the most famous clubs in the world. Chelsea plays in the English Premier League, arguably the top league in the world.
As this was a friendly, action photos from the match were not as important to me as capturing the atmosphere of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC:  That Winning Feeling Again.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/06/sounders-fc-that-winning-feeling-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After seven weeks without a win, Freddie and Fredy came to the rescue and each scored a goal to lead the Sounders FC to a 2-1 win over the visiting San Jose Earthquakes.
It was another great evening with pleasant temperatures in the 70&#39;s and a full house of fans decked out for a win.

(Nikon D3, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC: Tying One On (Again)</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/06/sounders-fc-tying-one-on-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, dude, what&#39;s your excuse this time? Why so long between updates.
Well, I don&#39;t want to use it as an excuse, but on Tuesday I had to shoot a group portait of the 2009 Seagals.
You wanted to be my assistant for that shoot? I called you, I left emails and a text and you never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC: Giving Cards for Mother&#8217;s Day.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/05/sounders-fc-giving-cards-for-mothers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 07:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I guess if you hold a soccer match on Mother&#8217;s Day, everyone should expect a card, right? On the Xbox Pitch, there were plenty of them handed out &#8212; red and yellow ones to be exact.
Head referee Tim Weyland handed out nine cards during the 90 minute match, including a damaging red card to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC:  From Fredy to Freddie</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/03/sounders-fc-from-fredy-to-freddie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week it was Fredy Montero who nabbed the spotlight, leading Sounders FC to a 3-0 win over New York in the inaugural match, but this week, all eyes were on Freddie Ljungberg, who made his Seattle debut in the 61st minute in a 2-0 win over Real Salt Lake.
Over 28,000 Sounders FC fans and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounders FC: Some Enchanted Evening, Part 3.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/03/sounders-fc-some-enchanted-evening-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/03/sounders-fc-some-enchanted-evening-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crowd at the Sounders&#39; inaugural match created an atmosphere that reminded veteran soccer observers of contests in Europe (Okay, without hooligans. Yet. Remember that Portland just got a franchise). Flags, banners and metallic confetti filled the air in Qwest Field.


(Nikon D3, Nikkor 24-70mm/f2.8 lens @ 24mm, ISO 1600, 1/500th sec.,f2.8)
In the south end of [...]]]></description>
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