Last week, Major League Soccer announced that Chicago Fire players Bastian Schweinsteiger and Nemanja Nikolic had been voted into the MLS All-Star Fan XI. Given that the two of them have been lighting up the league this season, they have, naturally, dominated all the discussion and hype surrounding the Fire’s worst-to-first turnaround in 2017.
Add to that the stellar seasons David Accam, Dax McCarty and Matt Polster are having, and it seems at times like there’s only five players in Chicago.
But the Fire’s success this season— which has landed them atop the Eastern Conference and Supporters’ Shield standings— has been a team effort.