On Friday night, Sigi Schmid’s family laid him to rest. They and his church welcomed the soccer community of the United States to join them through a livestream of the event. The speaker list was only a glimpse of his impact on our broad soccer community. It included Gary Wright (former Sounders & Seahawks executive), Dean Wurzberger (former University of Washington coach), and Jurgen Klinsmann (Germany, Bayern Munich, USA). There were six others, but that sampling alone shows Sigi’s impact just in Seattle.
today we pay our tributes to a legend. rip sigi and thank you for everything you did for soccer in america.