“What are you doing with those turkeys?”
That was the question former Sounders coach Alan Hinton used to get when he went back to England. None of his compatriots could figure out why he was coaching a team in a league that lacked any international cachet.
Hinton was a former national-team player for one of the world’s great soccer powers, and now he was managing a squad in the North American Soccer League. Why?
Because he saw a day like Sunday coming.
“This was my hope. That’s why I came here in many ways,” said Hinton, who coached the Sounders from 1980-82 in the NASL and in 1994 in the United Soccer Leagues first division.