SEATTLE — The Seattle Sounders announced on Wednesday at the Alliance Annual Business Meeting that Brian Schmetzer would be the second head coach in the club’s Major League Soccer history.
Sounders Majority Owner Adrian Hanauer introduced a very humbled Schmetzer at the event inside CenturyLink Field.
“It’s an awesome day for myself and for my family,” Schmetzer said. “I’m proud to be the head coach of this team.”
The Sounders named Schmetzer interim head coach after parting ways with Sigi Schmid in late July. The head coach of the USL Sounders from 2002-08, the Seattle front office kept Schmetzer on the staff as an assistant after hiring Schmid before the club’s inaugural MLS season in 2009.