This is how it’s supposed to be. Hometown kid gets his dream job and is introduced in front of an adoring crowd made up of his club’s most diehard fans. The cheers fill the room. The standing ovation brings tears.
Brian Schmetzer is the Seattle Sounders head coach. All feels right.
“He's just an amazing person,” an absolutely beaming Sounders majority owner Adrian Hanauer said after Wednesday’s Alliance Annual Business Meeting where Schmetzer was publicly introduced. “He cares more about this club than anybody I know.”
While that may sound like hyperbole, it probably isn’t. Few have given more of their life to the Sounders or Seattle soccer.