Year two in Chicago couldn’t be off to a more different start than year one for Fire midfielder Gastón Gimenéz.
The Argentine Primera División veteran and Paraguayan national teamer was signed from Argentina’s Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield late last February, and arrived in Chicago in the week prior to the Fire’s second match of the season in early March.
Even though he’d get his Fire debut in that match - a 1-1 draw on the road with the New England Revolution - he missed preseason entirely, and was then immediately forced into quarantine as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States.