It’s been an emotional week in the spaces that surround the Chicago Red Stars, beginning with confusion and bewilderment. At midnight central daylight time, as Sunday turned to Monday, an email was sent to the Red Stars media listserv announcing that Rory Dames had resigned after 11 years as the team’s head coach, the only person to hold that position in the NWSL era.
There was a short statement from Dames, thanking the club and saying he was “refocusing my attention to my family and future endeavors.”
Adding to the strangeness was a statement, not from longtime owner Arnim Whisler or any other club official, but from “the Chicago Red Stars” that did not thank Dames nor say much of anything.