Marco Pappa

Give the Fire marketing folks their props for doing their best to keep their fans engaged during an offseason that always seems too long.

The Fire are the league's hottest team, mostly because of their offense. But Sporting KC has been cooling off plenty of opponents with the league's best defense.

The Chicago Fire's playoff hopes may have taken a hit on Thursday morning as the club announced that Marco Pappa will join Dutch club SC Heerenveen immediately. The club previously said Pappa would make the move at the end of the 2012 MLS season.

Recent history suggests Chivas have a good shot of winning Saturday against Colorado.

Marco Pappa is heading to SC Heerenveen in Holland, but will stay with the Chicago Fire until the end of the MLS season.

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CHICAGO FIRE VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC (8W-4D-6L, 4th East) vs. (8W-6D-5L, 4th West) Leading Scorer: Marco Pappa and Dominic Oduro (5) Leading Scorer: Darren Mattocks (6) Opponents'...

Well with a deal believed to be legit over in the states I thought it was a good idea to look at what we look to be signing in the shape of the 24 year old Guatemalan international (Marco Pappa). First of all he is a midfielder which is one of the positions we do need to fill, and signing a player on a free is always nice.

That is the news that the Guatemalian footballer has signed a pre-contract agreement to leave his current club (Chicago Fire) in the MLS, for of course the much sunnier climate (we wish) of Wigan. This deal has rumoured to have already to be done, and will link up with Latics at the end of the MLS season. For many Latics fans, the news has come from some what out of the dark