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Not Football-Related: Tragedy Strikes Former Fire Assistant Coach Leo Percovich

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Football is a lot of things: Brutal and beautiful and capricious, full of swooping crescendos and subtle silences. It can be hard. Its gaze is pitiless and blank as the sun. But football’s cruelty is shallow as a mummer’s fancy when placed beside the kind of heartache the twists and turns of simple existence can dish out.

We join in sending our thoughts to former #cf97 assistant coach Leo Percovic and his family in this very difficult time. https://t.co/UE2ID862it

— Chicago Fire (@ChicagoFire) December 17, 2017

Leo Percovich was Chicago Fire assistant coach from 2011 to 2013, a member of the Frank Klopas regime.