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FC Seattle Storm, after suspending play for 1991, announces it will cease operations. A year earlier, the APSL club went on hiatus after seven seasons. At its height, FC Seattle operated both high-level men's and women's senior teams, an amateur city league, plus camps and clinics. Owner Bud Greer estimates he invested $500,000-700,000 annually. The APSL has shrunk from 22 teams in 1990 to five for upcoming 1992 season.
Bethany Balcer, a fan favorite, is traded by the Seattle Reign to Louisville for midfielder Jaelin Howell. Howell has five U.S. caps since being a two-time Hermann Award winner and two-time NCAA champion at Florida State. Balcer was undrafted yet voted 2019 Rookie of the Year, and her 33 league goals is No. 3 in Reign history.
Seattle's Henry Wingo scores as Ferencvaros wins its fifth straight to open the Hungarian first division season, 6-1, at MTK. It's Wingo's first league goal and second overall for the defender in five seasons with Ferencvaros, which has won the last five league titles.
Seattle Pacific emerges victorious from a tournament amongst three Division I teams in Las Vegas after blanking host UNLV, 3-0. The Falcons, flush with UW transfers James Dunn, Jason Dunn and Jason Farrell, start 6-0-0 on the road. Jason and James Dunn each score vs. UNLV. SPU beat Cal State Fullerton, 1-0, in the first game of the tourney, which also included Wisconsin Green Bay. During the season Seattle Pacific is 5-2-0 vs. Div. I opponents.
The Seattle Sounders begin publishing a monthly tabloid entitled Soccer Washington. At least 10,000 copies will be printed of each issue through the offseason, covering both the Sounders and amateurs and youth.
Kasey Keller makes a point-blank save in extra time and another in the penalty-kick tiebreaker, enabling the USMNT to win its third Gold Cup over Panama 0-0 (3-1) in East Rutherford, N.J. In all, Keller made five saves to earn the clean sheet. He stops the first Panama shootout attempt by Luis Tejada. Two later attempts hit the crossbar and sail high.