Soccerblog 08 November @ 09:19 AM EST
Patrick Nyarko was elusive and hard to pin down by the Revs
How did Pat Phelan not bury that pinpoint Kenny Mansally cross into the back of the net? It was
the clearest look at the goal all night and Phelan heads the ball out. He could have been a hero
forcing extra time. As it turned out, the Fire did not have to go through that route.
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The Los Angeles Galaxy takes on the Chicago Fire in a battle of second place teams on Friday,
October 2 at 8PM. The game will be on ESPN2.
On paper this should be a tough, hard fought match between two teams that need to be peaking
right now if they have hopes of going deep in the post-season.
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The 1998 Chicago Fire MLS Cup and US Open Cup championship team included many talented hard
working players with good character including Piotr Nowak, Frank Klopas, Lubos Kubik, Chris Armas,
Diego Gutierrez, CJ Brown and Jesse Marsch.
Last week we discussed the keys to assembling and retaining good personnel for a successful
front office.
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As many of you have noted, Fire center back C.J. Brown got a little nicked up during Sunday's
match against Colorado. The injury was sustained in the first half of the match, when Brown and
keeper Jon Busch collided in mid-air following a Colorado cross. "Buschy wanted to beat up on a big
guy for once so he chose me," said Brown with a laugh.
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Despite their horrible performance in a 2-0 defeat to the L.A. Galaxy last night, the Fire will
go on and their focus must now turn to Sunday's increasingly important match against Colorado. But
before we get to the Fire's next game, I wanted to pass along a few bits of info I picked up last
night at Toyota Park.
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The United States participated in two Confederations Cups under Bruce Arena. The 1999 tournament
saw the United States reach the semifinals with a mixture of young experimental squad featuring the
likes of Benny Olsen and CJ Brown and some veterans Arena reached back to call up such as John
Harkes and Marcelo Balboa to provide leadership.
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Jeff Cunningham and
Kenny Cooper combined with an own-goal by CJ Brown gave the
Chicago Fire their first defeat of the season--by a lopsided 3-0 score at that. With three starters
missing due to injuries and international call-ups, a letdown by Denis Hamlett's side was somewhat
to be expected.
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Soccerblog 31 May @ 08:20 PM EST
The Fire go down to their perennial nemesis, Dallas and their loss ends an unbeaten 11 game
streak, one shy of an MLS record.
Goals from Jeff Cunningham, an own goal by CJ Brown, and Kenny Cooper, gave Dallas an easy, 3-0
win over the Fire.
The second half turned scrappy with 6 yellow cards and Bakary Soumare's 79th minute
ejection.
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The Chicago Fire passed a key test in their season opener, topping FC Dallas on the road. The
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Here are some links to Fire news:
The Fire vs UIC kickoff is now confirmed for 7pm.
Blanco will leave the Fire at the end of the season.
The Fire finally decided to fix the benches in Section 8.
Fire old boy CJ Brown may also be leaving the Fire at the end of the season.
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I had an opportunity to chat with a bunch of the Chicago Fire players and comedian Jim Belushi
before the 2009 Season Kickoff Luncheon at the Sheraton. Here are several comments before the main
event:br /br /span style="font-weight:bold;"JIM BELUSHI:/spanbr /... On his 9-year-old daughter,
who is an all-star soccer player in California: span style="font-style:italic;""She was cherry
picking the other day and I'm p*ssed at her.
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