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| The Chicago Fire are enjoying their best start ever, going 5-1-1 through the first seven games of the 2008 season. To put it mildly, things are going well. But you don't crow too much when the season is not yet one-third over. |
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| Proud owners of the best defensive record in Major League Soccer this season, the Chicago Fire return home to play host to a team that has struggled to score goals, the two-time defending champion Houston Dynamo. |
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| Former Arsenal Ladies coach Emma Hayes was selected Thursday to lead the new Chicago Women's Professional Soccer team. Hayes' resume includes coaching at all levels of soccer in both the United States and England. "It's a real honor to be back in the United States," Hayes said. "Although I've been working with the best club in England and perhaps the world, this challenge is an exciting one. |
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| The United States plans to play its home games in the semifinals of World Cup qualifying in Washington and suburban Chicago and Denver. The Americans, who had a first-round bye, meet Barbados in the second round, playing the total-goals series in Carson, Calif., on June 15 and at the Caribbean nation seven days later. |
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| The Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire continued to show they're the class of Major League Soccer in 2008, each going on the road and coming away with an impressive victory to highlight Week 7 of the campaign. |
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| After a productive four-game homestand where they dropped only one decision, followed by a 1-0 triumph at Chicago, and then consecutive losses on the road, the Kansas City Wizards have a bye week to recoup. |
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| John Thorrington thought about calling it quits. But for a while, Thorrington didn't have much of a soccer career to quit from. He spent much of his first three seasons with the Chicago Fire injured, rehabbing from injury, testing his health and getting injured again. |
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| A somber postgame atmosphere settled upon the D.C. locker room following their 2-0 loss to the Chicago Fire Thursday night, already their fifth defeat of the 2008 campaign. |
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| The Chicago Fire are off to their to their best start in team history, wining five of their first seven games, losing only one and drawing the other while their seemingly impenetrable defense has given up just three goals. |
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| The Chicago Fire apparently have the formula to win at RFK Stadium. They bent a little, never leaked and took advantage of their opportunities to hold back D.C. United in a 2-0 victory on a slick turf at the venerable old grounds. |
