Nine months after current Chicago Red Stars owner Arnim Whisler announced his intention to sell the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), a new ownership group lead by Laura Ricketts has announced that they have an agreement in principle to buy the club. The team
The Fire once again find themselves in a must-win game: the knockout round of a tournament. Their opponent? Club América, is the continent’s biggest, most famous, most storied club. The one with the most titles in the history of Mexican football. It isn’t the first match between the
The Fire close out their Leagues Cup group stage with their first-ever match against Club Puebla Monday evening. Three-team groups means that the team knows exactly what it needs to proceed, and frankly, it isn’t that much. The kickoff for the match was moved to 7:00 PM so
The Fire’s comeback win against Minnesota is obviously my favorite result so far, however, St. Louis CITY getting crushed by Club América 4-0 has to be a close second. Besides that, Toluca earned a hard-fought 4-3 win against Nashville, A Brandon Vázquez hattrick led Cincinnati to a 3-1 win
The Leagues Cup is here. Depending on your perspective, it is either an innovative tournament, combining all of the teams from two of the top leagues in the Western Hemisphere together in a first-of-its-kind competition with both real prize money and a CONCACAF Champions League berth on the line – or
Normally, last night the general soccer-viewing public in the United States would have been tuned in to watch the Women’s National Team start their World Cup campaign against Vietnam, but, almost predictably, Don Garber had alternate plans. The League’s Cup kicked off – for the first time in its
The month is July. After his team stumbled through a rough patch in May and early June, Kei Kamara helped it find its form and start to look like a true competitor. They go into the All-Star break with eight wins, and Kamara earns an MLS All-Star nod. Controversy erupts,
The end of the first chapter of the Fire’s second half of their season arrives Saturday night as the team hosts Toronto FC in their last game before the MLS Regular Season takes a month-long pause for the Leagues Cup. The chapter has generally been a kind one for
It is often said that the middle of an MLS season has little meaning, with no teams working their way in or out of the playoffs – a refrain that is likely to be heard louder this year with an expanded playoff field, but Wednesday’s match against CF Montréal is
For the first time in nearly a month, the Fire will play a game in front of a home crowd as they host Nashville SC on Saturday. The game starts a homestand that will see the team play three games at home in a span of eight days – the last
Following their first back-to-back road wins in a decade, the Fire travel to Orlando City looking for the threepeat away from home - something the team last accomplished in 2009 with a 3-2 victory over the now-defunct Chivas USA. Orlando – currently in 7th place and holding the last “play-off” rather
The Fire officially announced Ousmane Doumbia would be filling the team’s third and final Designated Player (DP) spot, joining the team from sister club FC Lugano. The team confirmed Wednesday that the 31-year-old midfielder from Adjamé, Côte d’Ivoire is on loan from the Swiss club through the end
https://twitter.com/meninred97/status/1672796828947955713?s=20 The Fire’s starting goalkeeper again showed why he’s one of the league’s brightest young talents as he notched his second clean sheet of the season in MLS Matchday 21. Starting for Chicago in Kansas City three days after presiding
Four days after leaving Portland with their first-ever victory against the Timbers, the Fire continued their three-game road swing to face Sporting Kansas City at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas’s eponymous city, looking for their second road win in a row and fourth against a Western Conference foe
Fresh off their second road win of the season – and first since beating Inter Miami on March 25 – the Fire continue their road trip out west, this time facing Sporting Kansas City. A glance at the standings suggests that this is one of those forgettable midseason matchups between two teams
Following a much-needed 11-day break, the Fire head to the west coast to face the Portland Timbers, a team that they’ve never beaten in MLS play. The Timbers, who have a game in hand, are narrowly clinging to the ninth place in the West and the last playoff spot