The Orlando City Herald
Match19 Aug 2026
Luis Otávio sends Orlando City through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Luis Otávio obliged against Chicago Fire. 2‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Orlando City.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Javier Otero is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Javier Otero: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Luis Otávio, 19, steals the show — 7.80
Marked 7.80 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marco Pašalić runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Orlando City
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Orlando City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Brekalo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Orlando City
Robin Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Aug 2026
Two points walk out of the ground
Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Orlando City had all but put away. Chicago Fire will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad24 Aug 2026
11 new faces, and Orlando City are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Robin Jansson
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Gio Dempsey on the draw
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Antoine Griezmann