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Rory Dames said there isn’t a shortage of Red Stars who are capable of being starters in this league. The energy of this group is to play the role your assigned.
Sean Meagher/AP Ahead of the Red Stars’ opening match of the 2021 NWSL season against the Portland Thorns on Sunday night, coach Rory Dames said his team was always able to stay even-tempered regardless of results. He credited that fact to the leadership within the team. After their 5-0 loss to the Thorns, disappointment was the collective emotion felt amongst the Red Stars. “In my seven years here, this is the worst loss we’ve taken as a team,” defender Arin Wright said. What’s hard to understand for players and fans is that this team had two months of preseason training an...
Red Stars Draw 0-0 With Dash in Challenge Cup Opener It wasn’t the most entertaining game, but Chicago leaves Houston with a potentially important road point Share this story Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The Chicago Red Stars and Houston Dash played their first competitive match in six months on Friday night, and it looked like it as the game saw no goals, disconnected periods of play and Houston fail to record a shot on target in the opener of the 2021 Challenge Cup. It may not have been pretty, but it did earn Chicago a point on the road against the tournament’s inaugural champion...
Another week has swiftly gone by, and here I am at our kitchen table writing again. It has been a sunny morning so far. The weather for this past week hasnât been bad. Itâs pretty cold in the mornings and the afternoons are warmer and sunny, but once the sun goes down you can feel that temperature drop quickly. Thank the Lord no snow or ice. We did have a problem at our house over the weekend, starting Friday morning. The water company found a bad leak at our house and had to turn the water off. We were very thankful that our neighbor, Tom and his son Darin Wright, were willing to g...
NWSL Draft caps a busy week for Chicago Red Stars The team drafted five new players, re-signed 12 more, and welcomed back Nikki Stanton Share this story ISI Photos The Chicago Red Stars have managed to pack an entire offseason’s worth of news into the last couple days, it seems. With no soccer for at least a couple more months, it helps us all get by. Let’s take a look at what went down: Chicago selects five players in NWSL Draft The Red Stars were busy in Thursday night’s NWSL Draft, selecting five new players: Madison Haley, Stanford, 7th overall