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.
Two weeks ago last Thursday, on the eve of the WPS draft, the Red Stars’ front office staff were running around like their hair was on fire in a desperate attempt to acquire a replacement for their starting goalkeeper, Caroline Jönsson. The resulting trade of team captain Lindsay Tarpley to St. Louis Athletica in exchange [...]
Fan favorite Lindsay Tarpley, the first to score a Red Stars goal and very much “the face” of the franchise in its first year, has been traded to the Saint Louis Athletica for goalkeeper Jillian Loyden. Just one in a series of surprises on WPS draft day.
The 2010 WPS draft will be conducted this Friday, at 9:00 am CST, ending months of speculation by Women’s Professional Soccer fans as to which players will be selected by which teams. For Red Stars fans who were paying close attention this past week, however, the next addition to their team’s roster may have already been revealed by coach Emma Hayes herself.
It has now been 12 weeks since the free-agency deadline for WPS kicked in and its collective general managers booted half their players to the curb. Included among them was Chicago Red Stars forward Cristiane, one of this year’s finalists for the FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year Award. And while the Red Stars [...]
FIFA announced the 10 finalists for its 2009 Women’s World Player of the Year Award last week and half of them—Marta, Cristiane, Sonia Bompastor, Kelly Smith and Abby Wambach—played last season in Women’s Professional Soccer. In spite of her accolades, however, only one of these WPS players, Cristiane, did not have her WPS option picked [...]
