Qwest Field's lower bowl will be packed as usual for Saturday's Western Conference showdown against the Houston, Dynamo but one very influential presence won't be present.
Head coach Sigi Schmid will depart SeaTac sometime this evening to attend his son Kurt's wedding in Norther California.
Assistant coach Brian Schmetzer will manage the game in Schmid's place.
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"Even if you're watching the game on TV you don't see someone's body language off the ball, you don't see what's going on away from the ball, you can't detect the attitude of the stadium, the attitude of a player, and all that," Schmid said. "So at the end of the day, (Schmetzer's) got to trust his instinct -- he's been a head coach before; he's made those decisions before -- and make decisions that he thinks are right on the day.
"What you're really doing in those 90 minutes is figuring out what you'll say to your team at halftime, where are the little adjustments you got to make, what are the substitutions you got to make, when do you make them," Schmid said. "The only way you can make them is by being at the game."
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