The Joe Mansueto era of Fire ownership began this past weekend with a 4-0 victory over FC Dallas in Bridgeview. The team’s new majority owner made his fortune with Morningstar, a Chicago-based investment research firm, and this news comes just over a year after he purchased a 49 percent stake of the team from Andrew Hauptman.



This past Friday, the team announced that Mansueto was purchasing the remaining 51 percent of the organization and assuming full ownership effective immediately. Mansueto sat down with The Athletic on Monday afternoon to discuss the team’s impending move to Soldier Field, the history and future of the club, and his vision for reviving a team that has languished for much of the last decade.



What drew you to soccer?



When I was growing up in northwest Indiana, there was no soccer option. It was football, basketball, baseball. I got involved in soccer through my kids. I’ve got three kids and when they were younger they...