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	<title>Seattle Sports Photographer &#124; Rod Mar &#187; Sounders FC</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>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>
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		<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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		<title>Sounder FC &#8211; One Enchanted Evening, Part 2.</title>
		<link>http://www.rodmarphoto.com/2009/03/sounder-fc-one-enchanted-evening-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Mar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This continues Part 1 of my post on incredible evening that was the inaugural match of Seattle&#8217;s newest sports franchise, Sounders FC.
When game time finally rolled around, the lower and middle decks of Qwest Field were crammed with soccer fans, a buzzing, swirling mass of Rave Green jerseys and scarves waiting for the ball to [...]]]></description>
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