TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Signing<\/p>\n
Chicago Fire FC<\/a> have signed goalkeeper Josh Cohen<\/a> via free agency, the club announced Wednesday. He is under contract through June 2027 with an option for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n The 33-year-old spent the last two seasons with Atlanta United<\/a>,\u00a0making eight appearances across all competitions. He also played seven times for their MLS NEXT Pro<\/a> affiliate, Atlanta United 2.<\/p>\n “The goalkeeper position at the Chicago Fire has been a source of pride and stability for many years, and we are looking forward to welcoming Josh to the goalkeeper union,” said Fire director of football and head coach Gregg Berhalter.<\/p>\n “Cohen\u2019s experience will strengthen our goalkeeper corps through depth and meaningful competition on a daily basis as the team continues to get stronger at every position.”<\/p>\n Cohen bolsters Chicago’s goalkeeping room behind starter Chris Brady<\/a>. He boasts previous UEFA Champions League experience with Israeli Premier League side Maccabi Haifa.<\/p>\n The Fire begin their 2026 campaign on Feb. 21 at Houston Dynamo FC<\/a> (8:30 pm ET | Apple TV)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Signing Chicago Fire FC have signed goalkeeper Josh Cohen via free agency, the club announced Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45498,42,118799,43,45744,40,38,41,39,109039],"class_list":{"0":"post-213604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-chicago-fire-fc","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-josh-cohen","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sendtonews","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories","17":"tag-transfer-tracker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}