Luis Suarez came off the bench and scored twice as Inter Miami, without the injured Lionel Messi, won 3-1 at D.C. United in Major League Soccer on Saturday.
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Young Americans: Three MLS stars of the week
Brian Gutiérrez had the kind of impact on a game Chicago Fire coach Frank Klopas has been asking from him.
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Everybody loves Coachella, which is building on, and transforming, MLS preseason traditions
MLS’s preseason rituals have evolved plenty over the years, but the Southern California desert is increasingly taking on an integral role in the process.
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Fire lands Kellyn Acosta as latest rebuilding piece
The Fire, which will likely feature five new players in the starting lineup, including three players, all in their prime, down the spine.
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MLS at World Cup: Xerdan Shaqiri shines for Switzerland; Thiago Almada debuts for Argentina
The 31-year-old Swiss playmaker Xerdan Shaqiri, who joined the Chicago Fire for the 2022 season, helped set up two goals and scored in the 3-2 win over Serbia that advanced Switzerland (along with Brazil) from Group G. With his opening goal against the Serbs, Shaqiri joins Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as scorers in each […]
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MLS at World Cup: Three players come away with wins
Swiss Xerdan Shaqiri of the Chicago Fire and Ecuadorians José Cifuentes and Jhegson Mendez of LAFC were the only three MLS players to see the field and come away with three points during the first round of games in group play in Qatar. In fact, they were the only players from MLS teams to win their […]
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Report: MLS's Chicago Fire has agreement to leave albatross stadium in Bridgeview
After 14 seasons at its soccer stadium built in the Chicagosouthwest suburb of Bridgeview, MLS’s Chicago Fire has reached a memorandum of understanding with the Village of Bridgeview, which owns the stadium, to end its 30-year lease and move out of thestadium at the end of the 2019 MLS season. The Des Plaines Valley News […]
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Frenchman Cedric Cattenoy on producing pros for the Chicago Fire, and the strengths and challenges of American youth soccer
Cedric Cattenoy became the Chicago Fire’s Academy Technical Director in October 2016 after 15 years of work in Paris Saint-Germain’s academy, which graduated more than 80 players tothe pros during that time. Earlier this year, teenagers Andre Reynolds II and Gabriel Slonina became the Fire’s 12th and 13th Homegrown Player signings. SOCCER AMERICA:When you arrived […]
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Chicago Fire re-signs academy technical director Cedric Cattenoy to extension
The Chicago Fire has signed Frenchman CedricCattenoy to a three-year contract extension as its academy technical director. This is Cattenoy’s fourth season with the Fire after being recruited from Paris St. Germain, wherehe spent 16 years working in its academy program at the famed Camp des Loges. “In just three years, Cedric has provided incredible […]
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Fire's Nelson Rodriguez: 'This season has my fingerprints on it'
Of the five MLS teams that made the playoffs in 2017 but did not return in 2018, only two teams suffered bigger drops in points than Chicago, and Fire president and general manager NelsonRodriguez took the blame for the poor season, his third full season in charge. “The results on the field did not come, […]