Pitch Invasion (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Peter Wilt and others explain why Chris Armas was a special player of his generation in American soccer. Related posts: The Ring of Fire Happy Birthday to the Chicago Fire! An Open Letter to Fire Ownership
Soccer By Ives (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The Houston Dynamo will play a vital CONCACAF Champions League match tonight, and is doing what it can to make sure it has a big crowd behind it. According to the Houston Chronicle, The Houston Dynamo is charging $5 for end-line seats for tonight's CONCACAF Champions League match at Robertson Stadium vs. Panamanian club Arabe Unido (10pm, Fox Soccer Channel), a vital match for the Dynamo's hopes of...
The Soccer Daily (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Former US National Team and Chicago Fire midfielder Chris Armas is the latest inductee into Chicago's 'Ring of Fire' Hall of Fame. Armas spent the bulk of his Major League Soccer career in Chicago, winning the '98 MLS Cup and four US Open Cup titles. He was a seven time All-Star. Armas joins former Fire captain Peter Nowak, former Fire player and current Fire technical director Frank Klopas, the Fire’s...
du Nord (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
Interview conducted & edited by Paul Demko. Over the last two decades, Peter Wilt has been involved in practically every soccer league in the United States. Starting with the Milwaukee Wave indoor team, he's gone on to management posts with the Chicago Power, the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the Minnesota Thunder and the Chicago Fire. He's currently CEO of the Chicago Red Stars in the Woman's...
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 01/22/2009
Chicago Fire have announced that assistant coach and former player Chris Armas is leaving the team. read more
WVHooligan - Soccer Blog (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
As slow as things have been lately it is as good of a time as ever to start pumping these season previews out. Today I will begin my season previews with the Chicago Fire. More than likely I will be going in ABC order here and not by any rankings or predictions that I may [...]
WVHooligan - Soccer Blog (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
The MLS Supplemental Draft will take place today at 3pm and the results of the draft are to be revealed after 4pm. For those who care, Buzz over at 3rddegree released his list of the best of the rest out there that weren't taken in last week’s draft. Even for those who don't care, the Supplemental draft [...]
du Nord (Free subscription) | 12/12/2007
Let me say that I was dead wrong about Liverpool forward Fernando Torres. I had made the bold statement that he was not a big game player, and would shrivel up under the pressure at Liverpool. But for their sake, he has done the opposite. Great for him, good for the team. Can he now do it for Spain too? The Dallas Morning News says FC Dallas was working on a deal to trade Carlos Ruiz to LA who would...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/22/2007
When it was announced that the San Jose Earthquakes had selected Ivan Guerrero in Thursday's expansion draft, Fire general manager John Guppy wasn't surprised.
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/09/2007
For the fifth time in six years, the New England Revolution have ended the Chicago Fire's season. New England forward Taylor Twellman scored a spectacular bicycle kick goal in the 38th minute that turned out to be the game winner. Twellman was covered tightly by Dasan Robinson and Logan Pause but was able to head the ball in the air then perform the acrobatic kick between the two defenders and leaving...
Climbing the Ladder (Free subscription) | 10/30/2007
First of all, here's another reason why I can't trust MLSnet's stats. On the league stats page , their summary of penalty kicks is missing Eddie Johnson's saved pk against Jon Conway on 10/13 . Hopefully this is just an MLSnet mistake, and it won't be messed up in their all time stats (such as in the annual facts and records book). That's usually the case. So anyway, there was a total of 58 penalties...
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Chris Rolfe scored the lone goal to lead the Chicago Fire to a 1-0 playoff victory against D.C. United on Thursday night.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
MLS Playoffs: Chicago needed only Chris Rolfe's goal to beat D.C. United 1-0 in the first leg of the conference semifinals.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Chris Rolfe scored the lone goal to lead the Chicago Fire to a 1-0 playoff victory over D.C. United on Thursday night.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Goal in 14th minute puts red-hot team in driver's seat Cuauhtemoc Blanco has said that he will return to Mexico immediately after the Fire's season is over to avoid Chicago's colder weather.
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