Eddie Johnson Rumors & News

Seattle took an early two-goal lead, saw it slip away in the second half and then rallied for a 4-2 win behind star forwards Eddie Johnson and Obafemi Martins.

Eddie Johnson was one of 26 players to be called into the United States national team camp for three World Cup qualifiers from June 7-18 and a pair of friendlies on May 29 and June 2. Since going about 18 months between appearances on the national team, Johnson has become a regular fixture on their team in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup. "Eddie is a guy with amazing pace," USMNT Head Coach Jurgen Klinsmann said in a US Soccer release. "He can surprise people going one against one and can create something out of nothing." The Sounders forward will leave the Sounders to join the nation...

Bye weeks are a time of healing, but there is no magic spray or spell that gets players back to full health after X days off. Today's Seattle Sounders FC practice session saw a few players either not participate or participate in limited capacity. Sigi Schmid gave the breakdown on the various players with issues at this point. Obafemi Martins - Oba's on the plan, in terms of what we did with him last Wednesday so he's progressing as we thought he should, probably a little bit ahead. Djimi Traore - We wanted to go easy on last week, we wanted him to a do a little bit of warm up and exte...

Obafemi Martins is clearly not going to play on Tuesday night in Torreon as the Seattle Sounders try to upset Santos Laguna and continue to make history in the tournament. But the team may, or may not, have the services of Eddie Johnson and Brad Evans. "Eddie did more today," head coach Sigi Schmid said following a rainy day of training on Sunday. "So we'll see how he is. The anticipation is that we have 48 hours so he'll be close to being ready. I don't know if that's start ready or sub ready." Seattle traveled via a charter to Torreon, Mexico in hopes to increase their chances of p...

Seattle Sounders FC will likely be without at least two of their four listed forwards for the match at Santos Laguna next Tuesday. Obafemi Martins is getting his knee looked at by a foreign specialist and David Estrada's eye is still healing from a non-foul incident in the RSL game. Eddie Johnson may be back for the next match. "We'll see how Eddie is tomorrow," Sigi Schmid said after Thursday's practice. "Oba's situation is that after consultation with our doctors and our trainers they didn't feel he could play on Tuesday. He's had this injury before and he's been treated by a doctor ...

Teams are going to face choices on how to defend the speedy duo of Obafemi Martins and Eddie Johnson. It gets even more complex due to Steve Zakuani sitting on one flank. Sigi Schmid says the Seattle Sounders will need to react to the open space as it is given. "Do they want to play a high line? Do they want to take that risk? Do they drop off a bit more because they respect the speed?" Responding to the highline for a team with this much speed will be easy. The ball will be going up and over, or through, that line when it is offered. In some cases this will mean more direct play. In o...

Obafemi Martins and Eddie Johnson logged significant travel miles over the past week in order to help club and country. After today's practice session it seems likely that both will be able to feature in the two matches that are causing Sigi Schmid to juggle lineups. Mario Martinez is unlikely to start on Saturday. "Obviously Mario played both games pretty much in their entirety only short like seven minutes. Eddie had less minutes so I think Eddie's availability is good for both games Saturday and Tuesday," Schmid told the gathered media on Thursday. "For Mario it might be a situation...

The United States earned their extraordinarily rare point at Azteca with Eddie Johnson putting in 35 minutes all the way up top unlike his past matches for Jurgen Klinsmann. Midfielder Mario Martinez played the full 90 for Honduras in their road loss to Panama. The two performances may help long term recruiting for Hanauer & Co, but right now they create lineup questions for Sigi Schmid. "That's something that we're still looking at. Obviously we want to wait until we see how the National Team games go today, to see how many minutes people put on their backs," Schmid said after Tue...