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“I feel so at peace remembering my time in Chicago as I take this next step in my career,” Davidson said.
“I’m excited to work with this talented team that includes some of the NWSL’s best players to turn the Chicago Red Stars into a championship club both on and off the pitch,” Donaldson said in the team’s release.
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Kelley O’Hara scored in the 97th minute, and the Washington Spirit won the National Women’s Soccer League championship with a 2-1 extra-time victory over the Red Stars.
The Red Stars were 2-0-1 against the Spirit during the regular season, but both teams finished strong. The Red Stars were 4-1-1 in their last six games, and the Spirit were 5-0-1.
Katie Johnson and Sarah Woldmoe scored, and the Red Stars advanced to the title game with a 2-0 victory in Portland.
There’s no reason the Bulls can’t get a win — or two — in L.A. before moving on to Portland and Denver and, hopefully, not behaving as if those places are worlds apart from, say, Toronto and Boston.
Whether you call it ‘‘turmoil’’ or ‘‘adversity,’’ the team has battled its way into the NWSL semifinals.
The Red Stars will head to Providence Park to play the top-seeded Thorns next Sunday.
The Red Stars made NWSL history by becoming the first franchise to make six consecutive trips to the postseason.
All five games this weekend have been postponed amid allegations about ousted coach Paul Riley.
The absurd local start time of 9 a.m. shows the lack of respect for women’s sports.
Midfielder Sarah Woldmoe says the team is striving for consistency in a highly competitive playoff race.
Parkinson became Rory Dames’ lead assistant in 2020 after two seasons with the Utah Royals as Laura Harvey’s lead assistant.
This week, the Red Stars added to their workload by playing in the first Women’s Cup tournament in Louisville, Kentucky. The four-team event, which runs through Saturday, features the Red Stars, Racing Louisville, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain.
The two-time FIFA World Player of the Year known for her dramatic hat-trick in the 2015 World Cup final will play four as-yet unannounced friendly matches this fall with the U.S., and finish out the season with her club team, Gotham FC.
The officiating woes are a reflection of a bigger issue in the league. The NWSL is perceived as inferior when it comes to officiating assignments.
RISE’s 25-member board of directors is made up predominantly of white men, with two white women and no Black women or women of color.
Naeher, who also plays for the Red Stars, will be sidelined for several weeks, U.S. Soccer said Tuesday.
The United States will play for the bronze against Australia on Thursday in Kashima.
The Red Stars secured three points and moved into third place in the NWSL standings with their 3-1 victory Sunday.
Teams are gearing up for one of the most competitive fights for a playoff spot in the eight-year history of the league.
The United States will next face Canada in Kashima on Monday. The Canadians advanced to the semifinals 4-3 on penalties after a scoreless draw with Brazil in Rifu.
The USWNT cruised to a 6-1 rout of New Zealand at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday.
Fortunato was tapped in June to join the U.S. women’s national team medical staff and is hoping to be a piece of the Olympic-gold puzzle.
The Americans, ranked No. 1 in the world and the favorites to win gold in Tokyo, were riding a 44-game unbeaten streak.
DiBernardo became the first player in the club’s history to reach that milestone and the sixth player in NWSL history to play 10,000 minutes with one team.
Alyssa Naeher, Tierna Davidson, Julie Ertz and Casey Krueger compete for a gold medal
Through the 2021 Challenge Cup and the first half of the NWSL’s regular season, Krueger again proved herself as one of the most consistent outside backs in the game.
Eight games into the regular season that followed the Challenge Cup tournament, the Red Stars (2-4-2) are still struggling to find consistency.
Rory Dames said Tuesday’s game against OL Reign was an opportunity to give players a runout in a game setting to see where they are at ahead of the Olympic break
The Red Stars have one of the most experienced groups in the league in terms of players who have played together. Dames was vocal about the value of keeping that core unit intact last year.
The addition of San Diego will bring the league to 12 teams. Angel City in Los Angeles is also set to start play in 2022.