Hanauer and Brian Schmetzer go all the way back toward the beginning of the last decade, when the former hired the latter to coach the USL Sounders.
Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer said Wednesday night that he “couldn’t be happier” that Brian Schmetzer coached himself into a full-time gig, a process that culminated in the stripping of Schmetzer’s interim tag at the club’s annual business meeting.
Hanauer and Schmetzer go all the way back toward the beginning of the last decade, when the former hired the latter to coach the USL Sounders, and it was Hanauer’s influence that helped persuade Sigi Schmid to take on Schmetzer as his top assistant when the club made the leap to Major League Soccer.