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 [...]
Life if often unfair. And nowhere is this more evident than in the world of sports where coaches often lose their jobs when players fail to do theirs. On Monday, the Chicago Red Stars announced that Emma Hayes was “relieved of her duties” as head coach following the team’s dismal start to the season that [...]
Like an ever-recurring nightmare, the Chicago Red Stars gave up an early goal for the third time in six games and spent the remainder of play Saturday evening against the Philadelphia Independence trying to find the equalizer that just wouldn’t come. Despite Coach Emma Hayes’ previous admonitions to her players about defending the first and [...]
The Chicago Red Stars, who have yet to score against Sky Blue FC, found the back of the net twice Saturday, only to have both goals negated by offside calls. Meanwhile the visitors, who showed little offense throughout the match, once again took advantage of a broken play to score the single goal through Natasha Kai to decide the game in their favor.
Their air was crisp Saturday night as the Chicago Red Stars marched onto their home pitch for the first time this season accompanied by the chanting of 5,134 fans. But their passing was anything but crisp in the first half as they struggled to move the ball beyond midfield and quickly fell behind to St. [...]
The Chicago Red Stars, 2009 vintage (pictured). Fans who have not been following off-season developments may not recognize their team when they see them this year. Of the 18 players who made up the 2009 roster, only eight remain. But the Red Stars will still be playoff contenders while providing entertainment aplenty in a league that is absolutely steeped in talent.
