The Chicago Fire plan to hire Ezra Hendrickson as the club’s next head coach, multiple sources tell Hot Time in Old Town. Both sides still need to agree to terms and finalize the paperwork, but discussions are trending in the right direction.
The Columbus Crew assistant beat out the two other finalists for the job—Fire club legend Ante Razov, and Sporting Kansas City II head coach Paulo Nagamura. The Fire wanted a coach with MLS or Liga MX experience, and Hendrickson brings a lot of it. He’s been in and around MLS for 25 years—13 as a coach and 12 as a player.