Wednesday, July 26, was the one-year anniversary of Brian Schmetzer taking the reins of the Seattle Sounders, and the last year at the helm has been anything but uneventful.
The Sounders mutually parted ways with longtime head coach Sigi Schmid on July 26, 2016, and up stepped assistant Schmetzer. All he had to do, as General Manager & President of Soccer Garth Lagerway has said, was average two points per game the rest of the season to help Seattle grab its eighth consecutive playoff berth.
Schmetzer did just that and the rest is, well, history.
“The first six months were with the blinders on trying to stay above water,” Schmetzer said Wednesday.