Playoff soccer is back in Chicago for another year, though it won’t be the Fire’s first team kicking off their campaign on Sunday — it will be Chicago Fire II in MLS Next Pro. An impressive regular season resulted in playoff qualification for the second straight season, and the
Chicago Fire closed out the 2024 MLS regular season with a 3-0 loss against Nashville SC on Saturday night at Soldier Field. After a scoreless first half, Nashville opened the scoring in the 54th minute through Alex Muyl, who capitalized on an assist from substitute Anibal Godoy. Nashville doubled the
The Fire’s final game of the season comes at Soldier Field and marks the last time that Head Coach Frank Klopas will be in the dugout for the team. Incoming Head Coach and Director of Football Gregg Berhalter will be in the building, marking a ceremonial changing of the
Gregg Berhalter has had plenty of job interviews in his career. This month, he had another one, one that resulted in his official presentation as the new Chicago Fire head coach and director of football on Thursday. The process to find the Fire’s new director of football, which owner
As the Fire introduced Gregg Berhalter as Director of Football and Head Coach, team owner Joe Mansueto was asked about the team’s stadium future roughly five years after the team announced it was returning to Soldier Field, its original home, after nearly a decade and a half at what
For the last week, all the headlines around the Chicago Fire have surrounded the hiring of the new head coach and director of football, Gregg Berhalter. It’s easy to forget there’s still a game this weekend, and Frank Klopas will still be the coach. Before Klopas bids farewell
The international break is in full flow, and for the U.S. Men’s National Team, the Mauricio Pochettino era has commenced. Poch’s debut win against Panama on Saturday officially turned the page on Gregg Berhalter’s tenure, which ended this summer; at the same time, last week’s
When Kellyn Acosta was unveiled by the Chicago Fire shortly before the start of the 2024 season, the sky seemed to be the limit for the Men in Red. A seemingly stellar offseason had seen them land record signing Hugo Cuypers and positional upgrades in Andrew Gutman and Allan Arigoni
Gregg Berhalter’s arrival at the Chicago Fire this week has sparked conversation not just in the Windy City but throughout all of American soccer. The former U.S. Men’s National Team manager, who was ceremoniously fired following this summer’s Copa América embarrassment, is looking both to restore
Gregg Berhalter is best known for his tenure as the head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team, but before the 51-year-old manager took the reins of the USMNT, he was Head Coach and Sporting Director of the Columbus Crew from 2014-2018, a role he will essentially reprise
Yesterday, the Chicago Fire turned heads around Major League Soccer with the announcement that the club had named former USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter as director of football and head coach. The news comes just days after the team’s elimination from playoff contention for the seventh successive season. Before Berhalter
The Chicago Fire have named Gregg Berhalter as their new head coach and director of football. The announcement came this morning. “After a thorough and detailed search that included a number of exceptional candidates, it became clear that Gregg Berhalter was the right choice to lead our sporting operations,” said
The Chicago Fire are hiring Gregg Berhalter as director of football and head coach, sources confirmed to MIR97 Media. Paul Tenorio of The Athletic first broke the story this morning. Berhalter, 51, will return to the sidelines for the first time since his U.S. Men’s National Team dismissal
For the second year in a row, the Fire II have reached the postseason, thanks to their 2-1 win over the first-place Philadelphia Union II, behind goals from Peter Soudan and Omari Glasgow alongside strong goaltending from Patrick Los, particularly in the second half as the game got scrappy. The
With the Chicago Fire already eliminated from MLS postseason contention, Decision Day later this month will mean very little. However, Chicago Fire II’s regular season finale tomorrow will have a rather different tone. In stark contrast to the first team, the second team has been one of the most
For the first time this season, the Fire ended up on the wrong side of a 4-3 scoreline. Previously, they’d experienced it in comeback wins over Montréal – the team’s first of the season – and Philadelphia, in a game that felt like it could have been the galvanizing match