The Fire have announced the signing of Orr Barouch and Mike Videira bringing the total number of "signed" players on the roster to 25. Barouch, a 6'-2" nineteen year old forward and product of the Tigres UANL youth system scored 4 goals against the New York Red Bulls reserves last month. Videira, 25, has MLS experience with New England and can play midfield or defense.

I'm planning on bringing back the live chat for the final pre-season match on Saturday night...in the meantime here are the starting line ups for the second match of the Carolina Challenge Cup:

Fire

Conway; Anibaba, Mikulic, Gibbs; Ristic, Husidic, Pause, Pappa, Paul; Puerari, Chaves

DC United

Onstad; Barklage, White, Brasesco, Burch; Quaranta, Morsink, King, Fred; Davies, Brettschneider

I'm particularly looking forward to the match up with USMNT forward Charlie Davies.

The Fire trimmed the training camp roster to 33 remaining players (21 signed players, 2 draft picks, and 10 trialists) today after cutting draft choice Amani Walker and trialists Jordan Seabrook, Eric Ustruck, Evan Schwartz, Fabian Burbano, Anderson Costa, and Jocian Bento.

Tunisian Nadir Taider has been identified as one of the new trialists but interestingly enough Open Tryout winner Pari Pantazopolous has survived the first few rounds of cuts and remains in camp.

The Fire finally revealed the identity of the second international striker today, and his name is Diego Chaves. At 5'-10" and 150 lbs. Chaves isn't exactly a prototypical target forward but the Fire are hopeful that he can fill the #9 spot that is currently up for grabs.

Chaves played briefly with Uruguayan teammate Gaston Puerari in 2009 at Montevideo Wanderers before playing for Queretaro and Veracruz in Mexico.

The Fire can't be too happy with a 2-2 draw with Florida Gulf Coast University on Thursday night. The game was played in three thirty minute halves and featured most of the trialists on the pitch as the Fire relinquished a two goal lead after the first sixty minutes.

Here's the Fire line-up:

Sean Johnson (Jon Conway 31', Alec Dufty 61')

Jalil Anibaba (Yoximar 31', Eric Ustruck 61', Yoximar 79')

Josip Mikulic (Kwame Watson-Siriboe 31')

Cory Gibbs (Pari Pantazopolous 31', Jalil Anibaba 61')

Gonzalo Segares (Michael Muniz 31', Evan Schwarz 61')

Patrick Nyarko (Bratislav Ristic 31', Jochian Bendu 61')

Baggio Husidic (Fabio Burbano 31', Martin Rivas 61', Shane Clark)

Logan Pause (Michael Videira 31', Corben Bone 61')

Daniel Paladini (Marco Pappa 31', Orr Barouch 61')

Gaston Puerari (Calen Carr 31', Amani Walker 61', Jason Herrick 82')

Gabriel Ferrari (Anderson Costa 31', Davis Paul 61')

As you can see subsitutions were very liberal while Marco Pappa and Kwame Watson-Siriboe scored the goals for the Fire.

Training Phase 2

The Fire are currently in Ave Maria, Florida for Phase 2 of training camp while apparently continuing to look at as many available players as possible. On top of the eight additional trialists the team is also hoping to add an Eastern European attacking midfielder.

Before departing for Phase 2 of pre-season training in Florida the Fire announced the release of trialists Nate Weiss, Graham Dugoni, Pedro Chicarelli, Leonardo, Matt Glaeser and Amadou Sanyang.

They have also added new trialists Shane Clark, Gabriel Ferrari, Jordan Seabrook, Evan Schwarz, Joachim Bendu, Orr Barouch, and two additional yet unnamed players.

For those wondering why the Fire weren't involved in talks to acquire either Charlies Davies or Kenny Cooper, here's a look at the current MLS allocation order. The current "roster rules" require that National Team players returning to or enteriing MLS be subjected to the allocation process.

"The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.

The Fire's practice session on Saturday looked a bit lighter for good reason. Several players are no longer in camp and won't be headed to phase 2 of pre-season training in Florida next week.

Supplemental draft pick Yannick Salmon and trialists Barry Rice, Ashley McInnes, and Hunter Jarrett are the first casualties.

Section 8 held their Annual General Meeting at the Bridgeview Sportsdome today in conjunction with a Fire merchandise sale and the team's Saturday practice session. The supporter's group conducted the meeting to elect board members and representatives and address fan questions and concerns.

The Fire have announced the first of two international player signings and mystery international striker number one is indeed Uruguayan Gaston Puerari.

Puerari has played in the Uruguayan first division the last four seasons with Rampla Juniors and most recently Montevideo Wanderers.

Media Day at the Bridgeview Sportsdome featured the full current roster in training with the exception of the two mystery international strikers, Deris Umanzor who has been loaned to Aguila in El Salvador, and Steve Kinney and Mike Banner who are recovering from injuries.

Carlos De Los Cobos and Frank Klopas addressed the media after training.

Here's the complete list of trialists at training today:

Yoximar Granados Mosquera

Mike Videira

Leonardo

Nate Weiss

Alec Duffy

Barry Rice

Pedro Chicarelli

Ashley McInnes

Pari Pantazopoulos

Martin Rivas

Hunter Jarrett

Michael Muniz

Eric Ustruck

Matt Glaeser

Fabian Burbano Castillo

Amadou Sanyang

Graham Dugoni

Mike Banner and Stephen Kinney did not participate in practice due to injury recovery and Deris Umanzor was not in attendance as the club "explores other options" for his services in El Salvador.