For the second time in less than a week, the Chicago Fire are gearing up to take on a regional rival in MLS expansion team St. Louis CITY. While the Fire have had a frustrating start to the season and currently sit 14th place in the East, St. Louis has
When Kei Kamara arrived in Chicago this offseason, he didn’t think he was coming to be the starting striker. Though Kamara has scored more goals than any man in MLS history apart from Chris Wondolowski and Landon Donovan, he was brought in the bring experience, leadership, and provide a
UPDATE: The match will be held at Q2 Stadium in Austin, TX on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 8PM CT. The Chicago Fire’s next US Open Cup match will be at away against Austin FC, and is the first-ever competitive matchup between the two teams, having only faced each
Throughout the summer, we'll be delivering exclusive interviews with the most important players and coaches at the Chicago Fire, live from Bridgeview. In the first edition, we spoke with interim Head Coach Frank Klopas and forward Kei Kamara. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be
After the 3-0 embarrassment in Nashville and all of the ensuing drama that followed the match, the Fire came out firing on all cylinders for their new interim manager and opened up the scoring just three minutes into the match through Maren Haile-Selassie. Ezra Hendrickson’s successor, Frank Klopas, lined
In what is becoming an annual tradition, the NFL released its schedule for the upcoming season and Fire fans looked to compare the Bears and Fire's home schedules. Because of the lease agreement between the Bears and Chicago Park District, the NFL team are the primary tenants at
Last night, the Chicago Fire defeated MLS expansion team St. Louis CITY 2-1 in an entertaining U.S. Open Cup match a Bridgeview, but there’s little time to mess around ahead of Saturday’s rematch in the league. The team returned to training today, though most of the players
Led by goals from Maren Haile-Selassie and Fabian Herbers, the Fire led Saint Louis CITY out the backdoor of the Lamar Hunt Open Cup in Frank Klopas’ first match as the Fire’s manager this season. The Chicago Fire performed extremely well in defense across both halves, also creating plenty
The rivalry was built up for weeks. In the end, it took minutes for a winner to be decided. Adding an MLS team to St. Louis gave the Fire a natural geographic rival. The sporting history between the two cities suggested that the rivalry could be intense. The fact that
The Chicago Fire crushed a visiting St. Louis team 2-1 at Bridgeview tonight, advancing to the last 16 of the U.S. Open Cup in the process. While a number of players put in great shifts on the night, including Miguel Ángel Navarro and Federico Navarro, none stood out more
[podcast_subscribe id="2688"] On today's episode of MIR97: Alan and DJ are joined by returning guest Tim (@sing_electric), to talk topics such as the case of Brady, Guti, and the U20 World Cup v Chicago Fire, the World’s 50 Most Valuable Clubs with
Less than 72 hours after a bitter defeat in Nashville, one that ultimately cost Ezra Hendrickson his job, the Chicago Fire turn to their former home at SeatGeek Stadium to host St. Louis CITY SC in the U.S. Open Cup. The match is the first chapter in what many
I don’t know if new interim Head Coach Frank Klopas or anyone else on the Fire coaching staff has a copy of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, the seminal work by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern which laid out an approach for the rigorous study of zero-sum
Following a 3-0 defeat in Nashville and the sacking of manager Ezra Hendrickson, the Fire will return to SeatGeek Stadium for the second match of their U.S. Open Cup campaign. Last time out in the cup, a rotated Fire team defeated the Chicago House by a comfortable margin of
In truly exciting fashion, there were only two games on matchday eleven that had a goal or less, not including the canceled FC Dallas versus Saint Louis CITY. LAFC finally lost (but stay first in the power rankings), the Galaxy were haunted by Kevin Cabral and the Rapids, Josef Martínez
The three-and-a-half turbulent years of the Georg Heitz era at the Chicago Fire received their latest landmark moment this morning with the firing of head coach Ezra Hendrickson, and questions surrounding the Swiss sporting director’s future took center stage at today’s press conference. “We were trying to analyze