SEATTLE — The new Major League Soccer team in Seattle will be called Seattle Sounders FC.
About half the 14,500 fans who voted on the team name wrote in Sounders. That was about 20 percent more than the choices offered by the club: Alliance, Republic or Seattle FC.
Club officials didn’t want the traditional Sounders name, but fans had the write-in option. The Sounders name has been identified with soccer in Seattle since 1974.
The team also unveiled its logo Monday, a badge shape in blue and green with “Seattle Sounders FC” bannered across the Space Needle.
The Seattle MLS team already has deposits for 13,000 season tickets. Play begins in March of 2009 in Qwest Field.
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