Articles tagged with "blanco"
I Wish I Had a Crystal Ball
By Matthew | September 2nd, 2009I have heard it said by multiple sources and also believe it myself that this year will be the Fire's best chance at winning a ...
A Frustrating Night: Chicago Fire v. DC United Review
By Joe | August 30th, 2009Unfortunately, Dasan Robinson cannot be the fall guy for this one. After his late heroics/ complete stupidity against Colorado, I can’t remember that last time ...
Blanco, Ref's, Columbus, and Club America
By irish_steve | April 30th, 2009After the Fire's brilliant comeback in Columbus Saturday, news of some strange goings on with Blanco and referee Jair Marrufo. Both Blanco and the ref ...
Columbus Here I Come!
By irish_steve | April 25th, 2009Its 5:30am Chicago time and very soon I will be boarding 1 of 3 busses bound for Columbus, Ohio for my first and the Fire's ...
Speculation Is Rife
By cathal | November 20th, 2008Transfer speculation is all the news around Lazio at the minute and for obvious reasons. Media rumours are revolving around particular individuals. Cribari seems set to ...
Speculation Is Rife
By cathal | November 20th, 2008Transfer speculation is all the news around Lazio at the minute and for obvious reasons. Media rumours are revolving around particular individuals. Cribari seems set to ...
Weekend Dose 08.17.08
By Daryl | August 17th, 2008Something to read while you send a friend request to the oldest person on Facebook... New Bundesliga stars for a new Bundesliga season (Bild) Fabio Capello. In ...
Children of the mind of Blanco
By Sean | July 28th, 2008(I've been gone awhile. I may talk about it later. For now, we stick to the football.) In week 4, this would have seemed a pretty ...
Becks News
By jen | July 10th, 2008Your friendly Beckham blogger is back from vacation. Don't all cheer at once. So here's the latest Beckham news to peruse while you watch some guy ...
Chicago Fire v. NY Red Bulls - Your Call . . .
By Dave Martinez | April 11th, 2008Hey Guys. Never since the days of Oakley, Starks, Jordan and Pippen has there been so much hatred between the franchises of our beloved cities. New York ...
MLS (Probably) Inks Another Sponsorship Deal
By Laurie | January 10th, 2008And the money continues to trickle into MLS. Rumor is that the Chicago Fire have signed a sponsorship deal with Best Buy. You ...
Welcome to New York Juan Carlos Osorio!
By Dave Martinez | December 12th, 2007So we have a coach! And I am sure he has been scouting enough to know what is going on in the MLS draft. Asking ...
First MLS DP Bites the Dust
By Laurie | December 11th, 2007Oh, to be an MLS Designated Player. The rules don't apply to you as they do to mere mortals. Salary cap? That's ...
Blanco Media
By Tom | September 1st, 2007Of the two highest paid players in the league, the media spotlight has obviously shone an awful lot more brightly on David Michael Beckham than ...
Fire are on, uh, Fire
By Tom | August 18th, 2007Truth be told, the first half of the game against Real Salt Lake tonight had been pretty dire until Blanco controlled the ball in the ...
Crew steal a point from Blanco...er...Chicago
By scott | August 6th, 2007Nope, sorry Blanco. You only get the one point. On the road. In Chicago. With an excited, sold out stadium. Sure we'll take a point. The ...
Blanco Is Not Afraid of MLS
By Tom | July 29th, 2007When the Fire signed Blanco, there was a lot of talk about how he wouldn't be able to handle the physical play of MLS. How ...
Media reaction to Blanco signing
By Tom | July 23rd, 2007Many people have written that Blanco's first game had a lower profile than Beckham's arrival. Whilst this is true, I was glad to see that ...
Blanco goal!
By Tom | July 23rd, 2007Here are the highlights from Blanco's debut against Celtic. I'll have more later on the game, but it was a fantastic start for Blanco. ...
Blanco is here
By Tom | July 22nd, 2007It seems fitting that Blanco will make his debut for the Fire two days after Beckham's brief appearance for the Galaxy. To me, they are ...
Celtic! Blanco!
By Tom | July 20th, 2007What with all the Celtic fans and Blanco fans, it should be quite a mashup in the crowd on Sunday as the Fire take on ...
Thoughts on Blanco
By Tom | June 26th, 2007By the start of next week, Cuahtemoc Blanco will be a member of the Chicago Fire. He won't play for us until after Copa America, ...
Lack of updates
By Tom | June 13th, 2007My apologies for the lack of updates this week. For anyone not up to date, there was a bit from Goff on the Salas situation ...
Stars and MLS
By Tom | June 5th, 2007There was an interesting exchange in this interview over at This Is American Soccer with the New York Times' Jack Bell, when asked about MLS ...
Blanco's last goal for Club America (video); Welcome to the Fire!
By Tom | May 28th, 2007Club America bowed out of the Mexican championship last night, but not before Blanco scored a cracking free-kick for his final goal as an Eagle ...
When will Blanco arrive? Will he save Dave Sarachan from having his head placed on a stick - a scientific study.
By Tom | May 21st, 2007This weekend, Mexico coach Hugo Sanchez announced his 'preliminary' squads for the Gold Cup and Copa America tournaments. Blanco is, unsurprisingly, in the squad. ...
Why Dave Sarachan should not be canned (yet): a debate with Peter Wilt
By Tom | May 15th, 2007The "Coach Dave Career Deathwatch Thread: Part Four - THE FINAL CHAPTER" has been bumped back to the top of the Chicago Fire Bigsoccer messageboard. ...
At least Taylor Twellman didn't score
By Tom | May 7th, 2007That's all I can say about the Fire's 3-1 defeat to the Revolution on Sunday night: at least Taylor bloody Twellman didn't score. The Fire ...
Zidane to Fire? Amazingly, this is not a completely unsubstantiated internet rumour!
By Tom | April 22nd, 2007Honestly, I hate the transfer rumour mill and I hate relating unsubstantiated nonsense found on internet messageboards. But when AEG's president and CEO Timothy Leiweke ...
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