The Fire begin the 2023 season following an offseason made more notable for departures, headlined by GK Gabriel Slonina and forward Jhon Durán, than arrivals, leaving the team with several positions of need. Technical Director Georg Heitz can continue to make additions through April 24, but following that, any unmet
With the start of the 2023 Fire season just days away, MIR97 is evaluating each player on the team’s roster. Following our preview of goalkeepers and defenders and midfielders, we’re wrapping things up by taking a look at the team’s forwards. As with our previous roster coverage,
Ezra Hendrickson’s second year as head coach begins with considerably less optimism around the team than during his debut season, leaving many to question how much of the team’s 2022 performance should be placed on the shoulders of the head coach. That year, offseason changes had Fire faithful
Ahead of the Fire’s first game, MIR97 is going through the Fire’s roster player by player. Following our profiles on the Fire’s defenders and goalkeepers, we will now preview the midfielders. Some of the players listed below play primarily as wingers on the attack but are officially
All things considered, it’s been a pretty rough decade for the Chicago Fire. The Men in Red have twice finished dead last in MLS and have rarely been any sort of contender for any trophies. Attendance has often dwindled, and promising names have shuffled through the door but provided
MIR is previewing the team’s roster ahead of the Fire’s 2023 opener at Soldier Field on Saturday, March 4 by position - first up are goalkeepers and defenders. We’ll introduce you to each player, including how they joined the Fire, review their 2022 season, and will go
No player in MLS has had quite the journeyman career that Kei Kamara has. The 38-year-old center forward has previously played for nine different MLS teams, and now it is the Fire’s turn to have the Sierra Leonean. Kamara was traded from Montréal to Chicago in exchange for $250,
The 2023 MLS season is now upon us, and the Chicago Fire return for their 26th season in the league. Ezra Hendrickson’s team had many highs and lows last season and missed the playoffs, but there were many promising signs that the team will look to build on in
Alex Calabrese My name is Alex Calabrese, and I am the Editor-in-Chief and Chicago Fire beat reporter for MenInRed97. This will be my third year covering Chicago soccer and the second season covering the Fire and MLS, which will hopefully be more successful than the last! This season, I am
Every season, being a Chicago Fire fan has felt more and more bleak. We have come to expect a certain level of mediocrity in the past decade or so. But it wasn’t always like that, nor should it remain like this. Prior to the 2007 season, a young capo