Seattle Sounders Head Coach Brian Schmetzer

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Grant interviews Seattle Sounders head coach Brian Schmetzer, whose team has been to three of the last four MLS Cup finals, winning two of them. Schmetzer goes into detail about how he prepares his team for the one-and-done playoffs, why he thinks the Sounders have taken the next step in recent years and answers what he thinks lies ahead in his contract negotiations with the club. Schmetzer also goes into great detail about his intimate connection to the Seattle soccer culture over the years, from youth soccer to turning pro out of high school for the NASL Sounders to coaching the USL Sounders (while having two other jobs on the side) to taking over from Sigi Schmid as the MLS Sounders head coach in 2016 and winning the MLS Cup title that year. Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to football with Grant Wall.
0:09.5	Thanks so much for joining me.
0:10.9	Today's interview guest is Brian Schmetzer, the head coach of the Seattle
0:15.8	Sounders. We've had some great interview guests lately including Arlo White, Mateo Benetti,
0:22.0	and Amelia Lopez, along with many others, so check those interviews out.
0:27.3	It would be huge for this podcast growth if you could subscribe, recommend us to your friends,
0:32.1	and take just a little time to rate and review us in
0:35.1	Apple Podcasts. Now here's my interview with Brian Schmetzer. Our guest now is
0:42.3	Brian Schmetzer, the two-time MLS Cup winning head coach of the Seattle
0:47.8	Sounders.
0:48.8	Brian, thanks so much for coming on the show.
0:51.0	Grant, happy to do so.
0:52.0	Happy to be on. Happy to be on, happy to promote the sounders,
0:56.0	happy just to chat. Yeah, I've been looking forward to this. We're recording this on
1:02.4	Friday and coming out on Monday so I know you have a
1:06.0	game on Sunday but your team we do know we'll be heading into the MLS playoffs and
1:12.4	Seattle has made three of the last four finals winning two of them.
1:18.4	You were there as an assistant when Seattle was a very good team but not getting to the MLS Cup final and
1:26.0	and I'm wondering what's changed in the last four years and what do you tell your guys heading into these playoffs?
1:34.7	Yeah, well I would start by saying, Grant, that look, our franchise has been successful
1:41.9	throughout its history, even back in the 70s and 80s they've had some success. I think we went to a couple
1:47.0	soccer bowls and you know stuff like that. Certainly the MLS Cup championships are noteworthy,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Grant Wahl, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Grant Wahl and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.