Campos is now under contract and the club holds the option for 2020, 2021 & 2022. Fire Pres. & GM, Nelson Rodrigez stated "When we signed him to a reserve contract we promised him that we would improve that original deal." The rookie year of 2018, saw him get in 23 games with 13 starts for one goal and a pair of assists, these games were tops for the rookies in Chicago. The 17 chances he created were 4th on the team. "I'm very grateful to the Club for believing in me and offering me this new contract." stated Campos.
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December 20, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
GAM money from the Galaxy is lining the pockets of Chicago in the amount of $75,000 for the right of first refusal for the 29 year old Juninho. The Brazilian was with the Fire in 2017 while out on loan from Club Tijuana getting one goal and 2 assists over 21 games, 17 starts. This money will be in play for 2020.
read December 18, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
New inductees for this HOF will be Susan Ellis & John Kerr Jr. of Chapel Hill, Sandra Serafini of Durham, Duke University's Men's Program & the 1996 Greensboro United Soccer Association Navy Capture Girls soccer team to the National Champions Hall of Honor within the HOF. The 22nd edition of this event takes place Jan. 26 at the Marriott Winston-Salem. now for the inductees:
read December 18, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
The top tier in US soccer has now gone with single elimination, this will benefit the better teams as they will have home field advantage in each series as it is now one game, in this one game set up the home team has a win rate of 67.3% as opposed to the 55.1% in a home and home series. This one game only series will reward the team with the better regular season record. The entire playoffs will be contested in Oct. & Nov., this 3 week 2nd season will be between the FIFA windows. The entire playoffs will occur between Oct. 19 with the MLS Cup on Nov. 10.
read December 18, 2018
by Sean McCaffery
Literally the same day USSF called me back as I inquired on coaching licenses, by their count it had been "weeks", comes this announcement. This dozen, the 3rd such group is down quite a bit from the 17 in the last one, and the 13 of the first one, it is rather expensive and takes a year to complete, a check of the grads shows all to be pro coaches, where I am sure their clubs are bearing the cost and if not it is of course a write off, not the case for most coaches in the nation or those such as myself with lower licenses ( I have a c).
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