Brian Schmetzer and Fredy Montero had coffee together this past offseason.
The current Seattle Sounders head coach and the club’s former forward were catching up. Montero, under contract with Chinese team Tianjin Teda, was in town visiting. The two spoke about nearly everything but soccer: how Montero was, how his wife and kids were doing.
“Fredy is a good guy,” Schmetzer said on Tuesday. “I always had a good relationship with him.”
Not long after their conversation, Montero, 29, signed with the Vancouver Whitecaps on a year-long loan. And on Friday, when the Whitecaps welcome the Sounders to BC Place (7 p.