SEATTLE – As a player and coach, Brian Schmetzer has won over a dozen trophies with Seattle Sounders FC .

But with Seattle's 3-0 takedown of Inter Miami CF in Sunday's Leagues Cup 2025 final at Lumen Field, the longtime manager might have led the Sounders to their most impressive feat yet.

Taking on a Herons' side rife with superstar talent, led by arguably the sport's best-ever player in Lionel Messi , Seattle lifted their first-ever Leagues Cup title with a commanding performance.

"The success that [majority owner Adrian Hanauer] and I have built should not be discounted," an emotional Schmetzer said at his postgame press conference. "Because when we came, we were a USL team and he had a vision to get the team into MLS, and we had big owners and an ownership group and things

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