TUKWILA, Wash. — Last week, Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer targeted Friday’s training as the date by which he hoped to have a fully healthy — Nico Lodeiro and Will Bruin aside — roster for training. He didn’t quite meet that target, but he was pretty close.
“It’s not raining, the sun poked out, it’s all being competitive on the first day back, so it was good,” Schmetzer said immediately afterward.
Given the state of things a few days earlier, the Sounders were reasonably close to full strength with most of the internationals back from World Cup qualification duty and the many of the injured players making their returns as well.