Something about Adrian Hanauer You Probably Didn’t Know!

Sounders General Manager Answers Questions in German Fluently

April 6

At the recent successful America Scores Seattle fundraising event at Kells, we took the opportunity to catch up with Adrian Hanauer to hear his views on the progress Sounders FC has made thus far. We’ll have more of his candid and open views later but for now, we wanted to pass on something a little unique.

The Sounders General Manager, or the Sounders Geschäftsführer, as he will henceforth probably not be known, was happy to answer questions in German to our staff. Surprisingly at ease and fluent, he told us that Brian Schmetzer’s German was in fact better than his and told us of his father’s roots in Stuttgart, although Adrian himself is Seattle born and bred.

In the English part of the interview, Hanauer talks of things that didn’t quite go as planned, if there are certain players whose great start makes him feel especially proud and why he didn’t bother to gloat at the scepticism of the English tabloids when Freddie Ljungberg took the field.

Listen to Adrian Hanauer Answering in German (1.00)

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