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Ex-Sounders coach Sigi Schmid reflects on how it ended in Seattle: ‘It gets less painful at times’

Sigi Schmid had guided the Sounders to the playoffs every year since they joined MLS in 2009. But a slow start did him in this season, and he and the team parted ways in July. Schmid tells his side of the story of how it ended with the Sounders.

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. – Sigi Schmid has spent hours upon hours of unwelcome free time cleaning out his home not far from the breakfast spot off this beach town’s main drag.

The veteran coach doesn’t have many hobbies outside soccer.

He tried to take up golf in the ‘90s, but that didn’t really take.