Chicago Fire defender Miguel Navarro knows what’s at stake this Saturday when his team hosts Inter Miami at SeatGeek Stadium. “It’s a final,” Navarro said Wednesday. “We are playing in a final, and we know that it’s a very, very important game, not only on Saturday but every game from now on. And we’ve been –we know that we are…...
On Wednesday during the latest CHGO Fire Podcast, my co-host Alex Campbell and I marveled at the 61,000+ crowd that flocked to Soldier Field to see the Mexican National Team play Ecuador to a 0-0 draw. El Tri is, by any standard, among the biggest sports teams in the United States, soccer or otherwise. Anywhere they play, every game is…
The Chicago Fire are inventing new ways to lose games in 2022. Case in point, Saturday night in Toronto. The Fire outshot Toronto 33 to 5, with nine shots on target to TFC’s four. The Fire connected nearly 200 more passes, and had the ball for almost two-thirds of the game. Cover up the final score, and the two teams…...