The following letter was submitted to Sounder at Heart by Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer. It is lightly edited and maintains the coach’s voice about his friend and colleague Sigi Schmid.
Dear Schmid family and Sounder fans,
My thoughts and prayers go out to Sigi’s immediate family, but also to the many people he touched during his life. I am deeply saddened for the loss of a great man. I want to celebrate his life with some thoughts that required more time to process and compile.