SEATTLE—Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer was looking forward to a little pleasure with work y on the eve of the MLS Cup final against Toronto FC.
The Sounders planned to spend the night in a hotel, with a team meal and some last-minute film work also on the menu.
“We’ll treat it as a normal game,” Schmetzer told a morning news conference. “And then normally my right-hand man Grant Clark (the Sounders’ director of team administration) and I like to go down into the local establishment, the bar underneath, have a glass of red wine — just unwind a little bit, relax.