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After spending 12 years with one Chicago sports team, Jeff Tanaka is adjusting to working with another.
Let go by the Bulls in May 2020 after the team hired executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley to revamp the franchise, Tanaka became the Fire’s head athletic trainer last fall. When the Bulls moved on from him, the Sun-Times reported that Tanaka wasn’t being ‘‘scapegoated’’ for injuries but that the new brass wanted to bring in someone it chose.
‘‘It was disappointing, obviously,’’ Tanaka told the Sun-Times this week. ‘‘I had been there for 12 years, but you understand that that’s part of the business sometimes. New people come in and have the right to make decisions from a personnel standpoint.’’
Joe Mansueto: “The potential for the Chicago Fire in this market is enormous.”
The Fire’s owner lays out his vision for the future of the club to Hot Time in Old Town
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“When your kids start playing, it kind of becomes addictive,” the Chicago Fire owner tells
Hot Time. “You love watching your kids, you start loving the sport, you start watching it professionally on television, that takes it to another level.
“I just think soccer has a great future,” Mansueto continues. “I think, unlike a lot of the other sports, which could be a three, four hour investment of time, soccer is 90-minutes of non-stop action. It’s a blast. To watch a game you’re on the edge of your seat the whole game, the time goes by, like that. And it’s a great sporting experience.”