Forged in Fire we Stand for Chicago, states the Chicago
Fire that kicks off a new season with a new identity and image alongside to
play in a new venue the always celebrated Soldiers Field, looking forward to attracting
a new fanbase.
So far, the club made some important moves in the offseason,
primarily in keeping some of is most important players that made a difference for
the Fire last season.
With Micheal Azira, Jonathan Bornstein, Brandt Bronico,
Francisco Calvo, Raheem Edwards, Przemyslaw Frankowski, Jeremiah Gutjahr, Fabian
Hebers, Johan Kappelhof, Kenneth Kronholm, Djordje Mihailovic, Andre Reynolds
II, CJ Sapong, Gabriel Slonina, and Elliott Collier.
However, the club among one of its boldest of moves was
to bring a new manager and assistants, looking forward to making an impacting
a turnaround in this 2020 and making a contender for many seasons to come.
Among the first order of business was to bring a man to lead
the destinies of the Fire ahead in former MLS great Raphaël Wicky and former Swiss
international, along with new assistants in Frank Klopas and David Zdrilic.
In addition of the team shaking even its front office to
build a new identity and image getting ne people in Georg Heitz as its sporting
director, Sebastian Peltzer technical director and Ben Donache as its Director
of Performance.
As they state everything, but the kitchen sink the Fire went
into the task of building a true and strong competitor in the 2020 Chicago Fire
looking forward from its owners to personnel to return to its old glories’
past.
So far, the Fire has reinforced one of its most vulnerable
areas its defensive backfield, the arrivals of Bobby Shuttleworth and Connor
Sparrow will add some depth, experience solidness to the defense of their goal’s
posts.
In addition to new defenders of the likes of Venezuelan
Miguel Angel Navarro, Wyatt Ormsberg and Nicols Slonina, in the midfield the arrival of former Real Madrid Alvaro Medran, Mauricio Pineda (HG) and in (DP)
Slovenian forward from Anderlecht Robert Beric.
With the new think tank team the Fire assembled, these
went hard at work to bring new faces to make an impact of a team and season with
the current base the team had, these arranged to stay and looking forward to filling the stands of Soldier Field with a winning team.
Let’s forget last season troubles the team had in its
stands with some rowdy followers as this is moving forward for a team looking
to build up a new identity in its fanbase that can uplift this team as one of
the most in attendance, well that’s the plan.
Still, the Chicago Fire entrusted their faith to debutante
manager Raphaël Wicky coming with an impressive CV from his managerial days in his
native Switzerland and in charge of the USA U-17 team.
The outlook for the Fire is that the newcomers can easily
adapt to manager Wicky game plan and these embarked in a winning mode to front
a contested 2020 in the Eastern Conference, still, I forecast a seventh-place
finish.
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