This is the lead feature in Issue 14 of Sounders Monthly. Copies are available for free at The NINETY, GuestLink Services locations, Soccer Celebration and Membership Central. You can also access it on the Sounders Mobile App.
Chris Henderson woke up in a hallway at a hotel in Ghana.
It was 2008, and the Seattle Sounders’ VP of Soccer and Sporting Director was on one of his first scouting trips ahead of the team’s inaugural Major League Soccer season the following year. He was traveling with owner and then-General Manager Adrian Hanauer. The two went out for dinner late into the evening, and Henderson got sick almost immediately.