It was the Washington Freedom’s first and only road trip to Toyota Park this season and Emma Hayes’ first visit back to her old stomping grounds where she poured her heart into building the Red Stars team before being “relieved of coaching duties” four months ago. On the line for the Freedom was a chance [...]
Even though the Red Stars were mathematically eliminated from the WPS playoffs last Saturday when the Washington Freedom beat Sky Blue FC, they still had a lot to play for against the Philadelphia Independence Wednesday night at Toyota Park. The Red Stars had been winless against both Philadelphia and the Atlanta Beat this season and, [...]
FC Gold Pride finally found the goals that had eluded them for the last three games, scoring three times before a season-high crowd of 6,089 in Toyota Park to clinch the WPS regular season title. Ella Masar brought the Red Stars back twice after Marta and Rachel Buehler each put the visiting team ahead but [...]
Red Stars fans wilted in the heat and humidity Wednesday night at Toyota Park as they watched their team’s playoff hopes wither along with them. Despite fighting back from a one-goal deficit, the Red Stars gave up the game-winning goal to the Philadelphia Independence on a controversial free kick, eventually losing the game 2-1. To [...]
Last Saturday night, the Chicago Red Stars grappled league-leading FC Gold Pride to a scoreless draw—the second time in their three meetings this season in which the Red Stars have shut out the presumptive season champs—to move into fourth place in the league standings and tentatively assume the final playoff spot in WPS. The Red [...]
Sunday was “Dog Day” at Toyota Park—the Red Stars invited their fans to bring their pet pooches to their game against the Boston Breakers—and, as if caught up in the spirit of the occasion, the Red Stars played a dog of a first half, allowing three goals in the game’s first fifteen minutes. The early [...]
Two months ago, the Red Stars fired Emma Hayes, their coach of one and a quarter seasons and replaced her with their current coach, Omid Namazi. Despite building a team that, for the most part, dominated play against its opponents, especially in the second halves of games, the complaint against Hayes was that her team [...]
If a tie in sports is like kissing your sister, then the Chicago Red Stars seem to be having a makeout session with their sisters from Atlanta this season, registering their second draw against the Beat in three games. On the plus side, it wasn’t another scoreless game like the last time they played in [...]
Despite both teams enjoying an infusion of new talent onto their rosters, neither the Red Stars nor the Beat could muster much in the way of an offensive threat against each other, ending their first ever meeting in a scoreless draw. Atlanta started all five of the players they acquired this week from the now-defunct [...]
In what could be considered the biggest upset win of this WPS season to date, the Chicago Red Stars, at the end of a tumultuous week of changing coaches, defeated league-leading FC Gold Pride and ended their five-game winning streak with an early second-half goal from Kosovare Asllani. Gold Pride’s head coach, Albertin Montoya, sighed [...]
