Features news coverage of Chicago Fire and its players, including match reports and general football news.
MLS Cup, the USA’s flagship football championship, is awarded not to the team which finishes with the most points after the regular season but to the team that prevails after a short knockout tournament played by Major League Soccer’s top...
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Written by Chris Nee. 3 comments
The 14th Major League Soccer season has had something of a messy start. Of 74 matches played at the time of writing, 27 have resulted in draws. Matches are frequently turning on defensive errors and the officiating is once again prone to horrific incompetence....
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Written by Chris Nee. One comment
The MLS season opens with fireworks Thursday night for the Seattle Sounders inaugural game at Qwest field against New York Red Bulls.
The Seattle Sounders management did everything right to create a model club, including stealing 2008 MLS Cup...
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Written by L.E. Eisenmenger. 2 comments
When the Columbus Crew won the 2008 MLS Supporters Shield (the award given to a club with the highest point total in the regular season) and subsequently their coach Sigi Schmid won the MLS Coach of the Year award, it eloquently summarized the very...
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Written by Dan Leo. One comment
Within the last week, the roar around the Chicago Fire’s Cuauhtemoc Blanco and D.C. United’s Clyde Simms incident has swelled and is finally subsiding.
For those who have yet to catch wind of the fracas, reports indicate it took...
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Written by Cherie Getchell. 10 comments
There were six games spread over this holiday weekend culminating in an exciting double header. Only DC and Toronto didn’t play, making the potential for a lot of movement. We saw 9 out of 14 teams switch positions and with Superliga coming...
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Written by Max Zeger. Leave a response
7 games and much to think about. Week 14 highlighted the equality of MLS quite clearly. Each team receives 2.2 million dollars in cap space so naturally, teams will be relatively even.
This was evident in Week 14. Six out of 7 games were...
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Written by Max Zeger. 10 comments
Image courtesy of the Chicago Fire and Major League Soccer.
Last year, Major League Soccer welcomed David Beckham amidst significant mainstream media coverage in North America. Another player...
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Written by Steve Amoia. Leave a response
This is the moment North American soccer fans have been waiting for; the CONCACAF Champions Cup Final is here. However, with more exciting MLS action coming up this weekend, Americans are spoiled for choice as we creep closer to summer.
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Written by Liviu Bird. Leave a response
Although there are two teams (San Jose and New York) that have only played two matches, this will be the first review in which I publish the Major League Soccer table, and this season there are some surprises early on. In fact, what I predicted to...
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Written by Liviu Bird. One comment
