CHICAGO (May 12, 2025) – Chicago Fire FC midfielder Rominigue Kouamé was named to the MLS Team of the Matchday bench for Matchday 12 following Chicago’s 2-1 victory against Atlanta United FC on Saturday.
Kouamé earned his first Team of the Matchday honorable mention after scoring his first game-winning goal of the season in the 86th minute against Atlanta. Kouamé entered the match in the 81st minute along with Maren Haile-Selassie and Omari Glasgow. The three came together in the 86th minute, when Haile-Selassie played a through ball to Glasgow in the box. The Guyanese winger played it to the top of the six-yard box, where a late-arriving Kouamé toed the ball in for his second goal of the season. The Fire held on to the ball through much of stoppage, killing the clock on the way to their first home win of the regular season.
Here is what the MLS Team of the Matchday looks like for Matchday 12:
F: Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (RBNY), Prince Owusu (MTL), Brian White (VAN)
M: MartÃn Ojeda (ORL), Emil Forsberg (RBNY), Evander (CIN), Albert Rusnák (SEA)
D: Andy Najar (NSH), Sean Zawadzki (CLB), DeJuan Jones (SJ)
GK: Sean Johnson (TOR)
Coach: Eric Ramsay (MIN)
Bench: Matt Freese (NYC), Omar Valencia (RBNY), Rominigue Kouamé (CHI), Robin Lod (MIN), Diego Luna (RSL), Santiago Moreno (POR), Carles Gil (NE), Lorenzo Insigne (TOR), Anders Dreyer (SD) 
Chicago heads south to the Queen City to take on Charlotte FC on Saturday, May 17. Kickoff at Bank of America Stadium is slated for 6:30 p.m. CT and the match will be broadcast globally on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV, and transmitted locally on wlsam.com (English), and Que Buena 105.1 via the Uforia app (Spanish).
