Gregg Berhalter Reloads the Chicago Fire! Is Year 2 the Real Test? | CHGO Fire Podcast

About this episode

The episode discusses the Chicago Fire's preparations for the upcoming season, including player departures and new signings.

At long last, the Chicago Fire return to warm up Chicago soccer fans from this brutally cold winter and they’ve hoping to build on a strong 2025 season! Brian Gutierrez and Kellyn Acosta are gone, but there’s several exciting arrivals including Mbekezeli Mbokazi from South Africa and Anton Saletros from Sweden. Will Robert Lewandowski join them this summer? Lots to catch up on as winter break ends with the start of the 5th season of the CHGO Fire Podcast An ALLCITY Network Production Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. #ChicagoFire #cf97 #VamosFire #ReturnToRed Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Topics covered

• Chicago Fire
• soccer
• player transfers
• MLS
• sports news
• season preview

Keywords

• Chicago Fire
• Gregg Berhalter
• Mbekezeli Mbokazi
• Anton Saletros
• Robert Lewandowski
• MLS
• soccer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chicago Fire, CHGO Fire Podcast, ALLCITY Network

Places: South Africa, Sweden

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