Blog Entries for Irish Steve tagged 'Chicago Fire Academy' http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:42:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.section8chicago.com/jm3/component/option,com_myblog/show,The-Future-of-the-Fire.html/Itemid,96/ <p>Earlier this month Backdraft headed out to Toyota Park to watch the Fire&rsquo;s U-16 and U-18 academy teams face the U.S. U-17 national team. The Academy initiative, headed by Louis Mateus, has been running for around a year, and is one of the first fully free youth development academies in MLS. </p><p>New rules in MLS make such academies critical for the future success of teams, as each clubs can now directly sign (bypassing the draft) up to two players from their academies each year. Bac [...] irishboy2001@msn.com Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Chicago Fire Academy