u/DirtyCircle1

Inspired a previous post about Fire members in the Ultimate Team mode of EA's FC series, I decided last month to give in and try it out despite promising myself that I would never pay for PSN and UT. This said, I wanted to take it a little further than previous posts and I decided to create - The Deep Dish, a squad composed of current and former members of BOTH the Chicago Fire and the Chicago Stars/Red Stars. I have every Fire player available in FC26's UT, so no Mbokazi, Puso or many others. Currently, I'm still in the process of buying every current Star.

I'm also still in the process of giving evos as I can and I'm hardly done with ramping up as many players as I can.

Highlights:
Bastion Schweinsteiger (Thunderstruck Icon)

Unbreakable Mal Swanson, FUT Birthday Julia Grosso, Thunderstuck Sam Kerr and Knockout Royalty Alyssa Naeher.

Andrew Gutman has a TOTS Honorable Mention while Hugo Cuypers was given the recent TOTS Evo.

DeMarcus Beasley, Hristo Stoichkov and Shaqiri.

If I'm missing any notable players that would be a great addition and still available, please please give me a heads up.

I once swore that I would never play EA’s UT mode but after getting the FC26 in March, I’m hooked and desperately trying to relearn and play. Someone on r/chicagofire posted their UT Fire squad but it made me wonder- why stop there? I decided to make a squad of past and present players (where available) for BOTH the Fire and The Red Stars that I intended to name “The Chicago Deep Dish”, which had to be shorten for reasons.

My last two purchases were Julia Grosso and Alyssa Naeher. It pretty much bankrupted me but I’m currently saving up to buy more players as I’ve yet to acquire every available squad member in the game. The current plan is to save up for a Thunderstruck Sam Kerr or a Mal Swanson card despite pulling the gold card Kerr two days ago.

I played my first game with the squad last night! I’m rusty but I’m back in the swing of it and seeing some gradual improvement in my gameplay. Here, you can see that I’m fielding Kerr, Cari Roccaro and Vanessa DiBernardo but I do also have Ava Cook and Penelope Hocking in the subs/reserves amongst a couple of others. I gave Cari the recent CB Evo out of respect that she is no longer playing for the team and episodes of Butterfly Road were fantastic (which I can’t find anymore.)