Craig Waibel knows that the bar is set extremely high for soccer operations at Sounders FC.
Waibel, who most recently served as General Manager of Real Salt Lake, was announced as Sounders FC’s new Senior Vice President of Soccer Operations & Sporting Director on Thursday.
A league veteran with ample experience across the American soccer landscape, Waibel joins a club with a rich history of success. And it’s not lost on the club’s newest executive that he will be replacing a club legend in Chris Henderson, who departed Seattle for a Chief Soccer Officer position with Inter Miami earlier this offseason.