Alex Caskey Rumors & News

There's going to be a lot of time spent on how that 4-2-3-1 played, because it was different. What was different about it was not that it was used. Sigi Schmid has used that general shape before and in some ways a majority of time when Montero was here the 4-4-2 played very similar. Just look at how Alex Caskey was asked to play. "I wanted [Alex] Caskey to be a little bit higher, he sometimes dropped a little deeper, but I wanted Caskey, [Brad] Evans, and Mario [Martinez] to be like the next attacking group. I thought Evans got in a couple times in the first half, but then there were m...

Behind the flair, yes the flair, of Alex Caskey, the Seattle Sounders FC beat Real Salt Lake in the Desert Diamond Cup Final. It was B-Team v A-minus team and Seattle was better. The attack was varied, the defense stout and old man Hahnemann? He was a star. Winning a cup isn't always glory. Sometimes it is a preseason cup. Something from a thrift shop, a little bit a Cosby with a little bit a Rocky. But it is a Cup, even if minor. Caskey assured Seattle of one of those. His goal was not one of effort. It was one of finesse. After a long ball and a one-touch pass Alex passed to himsel...

The first sixty minutes saw Seattle's second team grit out a performance against a B+ squad from New York. The Red Bulls placed heavy pressure, but tenacious moments from the Seattle Sounders saw Alex Caskey capitalize and knock in a rebound for the first goal. That lineup of reservists and rotational players struggled to link up at times, but managed to disrupt most of the action once it got into their defensive third. It was the second half when things really broke out. At about minute 64 the Sounders made a full switch playing their past First Team with only Josh Ford, DeAndre Yedli...