The Chicago Fire kick off their new season in a little more than a month with plenty of work to be done if they hope to reach the Major League Soccer playoffs for the first time since 2017.The Fire on Saturday acquired Polish striker Kacper Przybyłko from the Philadelphia Union for $1.15 million in allocation money split over two years.
But the Fire need more than just a No. 9 if they want to set up Ezra Hendrickson for success in his first season as coach. “One of the things we’ve been trying to beat into the players and kind of emphasize with them is possession is king,” he said from Orlando, Fla., where the Fire are holding preseason training. “When we don’t have the ball we deny space, and when we have it we try to create space.
But adding replacements has been a mostly slow process so far for Heitz and technical director Sebastian Pelzer, who are overseeing their second rebuild since joining the club in December 2019. The Fire hope to add a few more players in the coming weeks, whether those are domestic moves such as Przybyłko or international ones. The Fire have a number of international slots available.
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