Former Sounders coach Sigi Schmid, who parted ways with the club in late July, has watched his former team’s run to MLS Cup from afar but only in “bits and pieces.” He’ll actually be in Toronto for the final on Saturday night, doing some on-site work for Major League Soccer.
His one regret, he’d told fans at an sentimental send-off at a local bar a few days after his departure, was that would not be the man to bring the club’s first big-league soccer championship to Seattle. Schmid’s Sounders won four U.S. Open Cups and a regular-season title, but MLS Cup eluded them despite a run of seven consecutive playoff berths.