Fire's Schweinsteiger voted captain for 2017 MLS All-Star Game

By CHARLIE CORR
charlie.corr@mlssoccer.com

NEW YORK – Major League Soccer today announced that Chicago Fire midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has been voted captain of the MLS All-Stars following the annual fan Snapchat vote.

Schweinsteiger will wear the captain’s armband as the best in MLS face Spanish giants Real Madrid in the 2017 MLS All-Star Game presented by Target next Wednesday, Aug. 2 at Soldier Field in Chicago (8:30 p.m. ET, FS1, Univision, TSN, TVA Sports).

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2009 MLS ALL-STAR GAME

The Chicago Fire are well-represented on this year's MLS All-Star Team, which faces Everton FC at 8:30 p.m. (CST) Wednesday, with the game televised on ESPN2. Midfielder Cuauhtemoc Blanco and defenders Wilman Conde and Bakary Soumare are on this year's MLS squad.

Read my Examiner.com MLS Notebook featuring the MLS All-Star Game, as well as my 2009 Non-All-Star Game inductees. Someone on the Fire made my list.

~ Charlie Corr
Major League Soccer Examiner at Examiner.com
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