# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-schmetzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:21:00.475Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-schmetzer"
name: "Brian Schmetzer"
slug: "brian-schmetzer"
description: "Brian Thomas Schmetzer is an American soccer coach and former professional player. He is the head coach of Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer (MLS), having been assistant coach for the team until Sigi Schmid's departure in 2016. Prior to that, he coached the Seattle Sounders in the USL First Division for seven seasons, winning two championships, and played in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League and Western Soccer League for various Seattle teams."
tagline: "American soccer coach (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Schmetzer_at_MLS_Cup_2016_Victory_Rally_-_02_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1962-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.15346266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Brian Schmetzer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump