{"id":274644,"date":"2025-10-03T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274644\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:27:10","slug":"chicago-fire-fc-midfielder-andre-franco-suffers-season-ending-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274644\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire FC midfielder Andr\u00e9 Franco suffers season-ending injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25-year-old injured his knee in Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/miavschi-09-30-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5-3 win<\/a> midweek at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/inter-miami-cf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter Miami CF<\/a>, which booked their Audi MLS Cup Playoffs spot for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Franco <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/chicago-fire-acquire-andre-franco-from-fc-porto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined the Fire<\/a> on loan from Portuguese powerhouse FC Porto during the summer transfer window. He tallied four assists in six games.<\/p>\n<p>With two regular-season games left, Chicago are eighth in the Eastern Conference (51 points; 15W-11L-6D). They&#8217;re in year one under director of football and head coach Gregg Berhalter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 25-year-old injured his knee in Chicago&#8217;s 5-3 win midweek at Inter Miami CF, which booked their Audi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":274645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[142170,960,12420,5386,1818,37638],"class_list":{"0":"post-274644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-andre-franco","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-fire-fc","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-sendtonews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}