The question isn’t whether the Fire should remove sporting director Georg Heitz. It’s who should replace him. And there’s a pretty big name out there who would check all the boxes Heitz doesn’t.
Unlike Heitz, Seattle Sounders general manager and president of soccer operations Garth Lagerwey knows how to win in Major League Soccer. An Elmhurst native, Lagerwey won an MLS Cup with Real Salt Lake before moving on to the Sounders, where he has won two more league titles. This spring, Lagerwey and Seattle climbed the tallest mountain in North American club soccer, as the Sounders became the first MLS team to win the CONCACAF Champions League.
