Fire to air English game broadcasts on WLS-AM

Fire to air English game broadcasts on WLS-AM Max Thoma and Dasan Robinson will call the games. Thoma is in his fourth year as the play-by-play voice of the South Bend Cubs, and Robinson, an Evanston native, played six seasons for the Fire (2006-11). He also has called games for Chicago House AC, which plays … Read more

Open Cup Evangelist Peter Wilt Goes Home Again with Chicago House

Open Cup Evangelist Peter Wilt Goes Home Again with Chicago House Wilt led the then-brand new Chicago Fire to four Open Cup titles between 1998 and 2006. And he’ll now face off with that very club he helped birth in the tournament he loves best. His new project, the all-amateur Chicago House AC, are making … Read more

WSJ on U.S. Soccer, Gregg Berhalter, and Gio Reyna’s parents

“On top of their alleged efforts to end Berhalter’s tenure with the team, the report paints the Reynas as overbearing and well-connected soccer parents who became a persistent nuisance to the American federation throughout the 2022 World Cup and at previous tournaments involving Gio.”

“U.S. Soccer Report Finds Gio Reyna’s Parents Tried to Undermine Coach Gregg Berhalter,” by Joshua Robinson, wsj.com

An independent report found that Claudio Reyna and Danielle Egan, both former players, revealed an abuse allegation against the U.S. men’s coach in response to their son’s lack of playing time.

Malcolm Pryce quote about Shrewsbury “sacred arenas”

“The train slowed down at the approach to Shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century Abbey and the stadium of Shrewsbury Town Football Club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.”

—Malcolm Pryce, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth