Chris Henderson has compared the rebuilding job he is doing as sporting director of Inter Miami CF to that of the expansion season he experienced with the Seattle Sounders in 2009. Yet that's arguably an understatement considering just how onerous his current task is.
With Seattle more than a decade ago, Henderson, owner/GM Adrian Hanauer and then-manager Sigi Schmid were simply building, benefiting from having a blank canvas as a brand-new team. Now, in South Florida, the former United States international isn't just remodeling, but razing some portions of the troubled team to the ground.