Fire get 100K in GAM in a trade

By Sean McCaffery, January 10, 2020

$100,000 came in as the #10 pick in the MLS SuperDraft went to RBNY, then, this WIndy CIty side selected University of the Pacific player Jonathan Jimenez with the 26th pick of the first round, he is a defender & midfielder. While at the Univ., he started all 21 games he saw time in over the last pair of seasons, getting 8 goals with 5 assists. The first hat trick in the modern era for the TIgers, 2018 was secured by him in three minutes facing Uni. of Portland then #11, in a 3-2 come from behind win. That same year he struckĀ  4 GWGs included one V Stanford, their first loss in over a year as they were defending a national title. A transfer from Big East power Seton Hall U, he had 29 games, 8 of them starts from 2016-'17, good for 4 goals and 9 assists and a Big East All-Freshman team selection. Though a Floridian by birth his time in NJ has him used to the weather in Chicagoland.

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