At the crucial moment, an instance of conviction tilted the game Chicago’s way.
As Bastian Schweinsteiger came off the field, he was pulled to one side by a sponsor’s representative to receive his Heineken Man of the Match guitar. Exhausted, grinning broadly, Schweinsteiger posed happily for photographs — at one point dropping a happy aside that he’d “been waiting for one of these” as he held the guitar up for the cameras.
And he has deserved a moment like this. Schweinsteiger’s time in Chicago has been about honest service to the team, paired with the unmistakable class and focus of an elite player.