Hot Time in Old Town · Nov 18, 2021
Ezra Hendrickson has more than earned his shot with the Chicago Fire
Ezra Hendrickson battles for the ball with Jonathan Bornstein in 2007. The two were briefly teammates in 2006 at Chivas USA.During the height of the COVID lockdown in 2020, a friend and fellow youth coach sent me a very excited text. He had just attended an online coaching seminar, where a speaker had just spent 90 minutes breaking down a particular player’s game, from a tactical and technical standpoint. The speaker clearly knew his stuff, but he was also dynamic and engaging. He made those coaches want to jump through their Zoom screens and immediately get to work. My friend was blown away.
“This guy was amazing,” he wrote. “He needs to be a head coach somewhere, right now.”