Corporate Cup Begins Tonight

SCORES is buzzing today as the Sounders FC Corporate Cup is about to begin!

All the players from the teams are going to begin tournament with a party tonight at Amber in Belltown. There are going to some great prizes to bid on, all donated from teams in the tournament. There will be a few Sounders mingling and giving tactical advice.

So be there, get to know your Seattle Sounders, your corporate soccer players and help SCORES!

Then tomorrow the games begin. In a marquis match-up, United Parcel Service will clash with Expedia on Saturday, July 24th at 4:30PM. Team UPS, outfitted in brown soccer uniforms, will arrive at the field in a customized delivery van at 3:30PM where they’ll be greeted by Team Expedia toting their trademark, yellow-branded suitcases. The group will pose for photos and video from 3:30-4:00PM at the entrance to the Sounders Training Grounds.

Hope to see you there!

Corporate Cup Right Around the Corner

The Sounders FC Corporate Cup is a soccer event bringing together many Northwest corporations for soccer and networking, all the while raising money for America SCORES Seattle.

So far, the 2010 Cup has attracted the likes of Expedia, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Starbucks, Puget Sound Energy, Sounders Corporate, UPS, and Boeing just announced they are joining up too. All these corporations are going to have at least one team in the cup.

"The first annual Sounders Corporate Cup is going to be an amazing event," said Chad Mack, the event organizer. "When players don their corporate jerseys they experience a great sense of pride in their companies, and to play the beautiful game to support a great charity like America SCORES Seattle makes it just all that much sweeter."

Chad's day-job is as a communications manager for Microsoft and he also runs a small public relations agency, Mack Marketing.

Chad has organized events like in the past, most recently he put together the 2009 Puget Sound Corporate Soccer Challenge, an event that helped raise over $14,000 for the Ronald McDonald House.

The tournament will consist of a men's division and a coed division competing to show which company will be number one on the pitch. The 2010 champions will be able to watch the Sounders game from a luxury suite the same night!

Everyone at the SCORES office is excited to attend the pre-tournament bash on July 23rd at Amber in Belltown and the chance to step onto XBOX pitch. There is going to be live music, Sounders players, a silent auction, and

CUP INFO.
The preliminary Cup matches begin July 24th and 25th, at the Sounders FC's training facility, Starfire Sports Complex. The championship matches will be on Aug. 8th on the XBOX Pitch.

To learn more, please visit www.sounderscorporatecup.com.

Corporate Soccer Hooligans to Mob Local Pubs for SCORES

The Sounders FC Corporate Cup 2010 is coming this summer and the buildup events are beginning on Wednesday.

When Seattle's business men and women sneak out of the office to watch Barcelona FC face off against Inter Milan FC in the Championship League Semi-finals, they're going to get mobbed by by Corporate Hooligan crews. These hooligan men and women will challenge any of the soccer fans playing hooky to assemble a corporate crew and enter the soccer charity event to benefit America SCORES Seattle this July.

Soccer players from Amazon.com, Expedia, Microsoft, Puget Sound Energy, UPS and America SCORES Seattle will storm Fado Irish Pub, Fox Sports Grill and George & Dragon Pub on Wednesday to recruit businesses for Seattle Sounders FC Corporate Cup 2010.

Please check out the link to register your crew, or learn more at Seattle Sounders FC Corporate Cup 2010.

Here is a link to the Seattle Times Sounders FC blog that has a write up about the events.

Sounders FC Corporate Cup 2010

If you work at a corporation in the Pacific Northwest and you have a soccer team of men, women or both, you can compete in the Sounders FC Corporate Cup 2010. This tournament includes a pre-tournament party at Qwest Field, first rounds played on the Sounders practice fields at the Starfire Sports Complex on July 24th & 25th, and the championship game on the Sounders XBOX pitch at Qwest Field on August 8th.

Here is a link to the official Web site with more details about getting involved.

The tournament, in addition to being fun, competitive and a great way to get onto XBOX Pitch, benefits America SCORES Seattle. SCORES is a five day-a-week soccer and literacy program serving 200 Seattle public elementary school students.

So get out of your boardroom, run from your cubicle, grab your cleats and play soccer for SCORES!