It’s good for the boss to be happy, and Fire technical director Frank Klopas is happy with the early returns from preseason training.
“It’s been a very good attitude with the guys, everybody’s working very hard,” Klopas said by telephone from Ave Maria, Fla. “It’s a work in progress, but so far so good.”
It was the theme for much of the conversation.
“The most important thing is to build a family in the beginning,” Klopas said, adding he wants “to make sure that everyone buys in.”
Perhaps that’s a reaction to reports that last year’s locker room was not the happiest in MLS, that many players didn’t get along with coach Carlos de los Cobos and since-departed fitness coach Alvaro Briones.
“The chemistry has been very good,” Klopas said. “I don’t want to compare it to last year.”
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