Chicago Fire FC’s Special Olympics Unified team travelled to face the Houston Dynamo Unified team at Houston Sports Park on Saturday morning, as part of the Special Olympics Unified Sports® Soccer Exchange Program.
The program, born out of a partnership between MLS WORKS, ESPN and Special Olympics, was created in an effort to unite individuals with intellectual disabilities (Special Olympics athletes) and individuals without intellectual disabilities (Unified partners) as members of one team.
Fire Head Coach Ezra Hendrickson, President of Business Operations Ishwara Glassman Chrein, Sporting Director Georg Heitz and additional members of the Club’s front office and technical staff were in attendance of the match, which ended in a 2-1 victory for the visiting Chicago side.
More information about the Unified Sports® Soccer Exchange program and the partnership between Special Olympics, ESPN and MLS WORKS can be found here.
Chicago Fire FC takes on the Houston Dynamo tonight at 7:00 p.m. CT at PNC Stadium in Houston, Texas. The match will be broadcast nationally on UniMás, TUDN and Twitter (with English-language audio) and will also be transmitted locally in Spanish on Univision Radio. Preview the match here.
