Sigi Schmid
Sigi Schmid
Siegfried "Sigi" Schmidis a German-American soccer coach who most recently coached Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer. Born in Tübingen, West Germany, he moved to the United States with his family when he was a child. He played college soccer from 1972 to 1975 at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he was a starting midfielder in each of his four years. He coached his former college team, the UCLA Bruins, between 1980 and 1999. During that period,...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 March 1953
CityTubingen, Germany
Joel is a versatile defender who was here for our mini-camp in November. He can play centrally or on the right and is a young player with great potential.
I want to those three guys not to be fringe national team players, but national team players as the team prepares for the World Cup in 2010.
My objective is that we want to win a title this year. If it doesn't happen, we are going to be immensely better than last year. It doesn't take that long to turn around a team.
Sometimes you've got to go with what your gut tells you, and my gut said this is a move we needed to make. ... One thing Eddie gives us is versatility.
He should be getting some minutes for us this year. That's our expectation. That's why we drafted him. If we didn't expect him to play, we wouldn't have taken him.
Danny's very exuberant, so we're trying to get him to make his runs at the right times and in the right place. He's still young and he's still learning the nuances of the game.
I think we've created a much more competitive environment. There is competition in all of the facets of the field.
Joel is a young guy who can play a number of different positions. He is big plus for us as well.
He might sometimes come off the bench and he might sometimes be a starter. I was impressed with his attitude and character, and once some things resolved themselves we made the decision (to sign him).
I didn't think we were two goals worse. I thought the first 15 minutes of the second half we owned and then we give up the third goal and that takes the wind out of the sails so to speak. The adjustments were just guys needing to work a little harder.
We talked about doing this two weeks ago. It has nothing to do with the last game. Neither he nor Kyle Martino were as effective as they needed to be, but our expectations for him are still very high.