Rory Dames was allowed to resign as Red Stars coach because the NWSL club says it ‘didn’t have any reason to believe that there was a safety issue in our environment’

CHICAGO — Rory Dames was allowed to resign as the Chicago Red Stars coach in part because the National Women’s Soccer League club thought it “didn’t have any reason to believe that there was a safety issue in our environment.”

That’s what majority owner Arnim Whisler told the Chicago Tribune in a brief, 15-minute interview Friday, part of a series of one-on-ones Whisler was doing with some media members.

But Whisler also said that had Dames not resigned by the end of the day on Nov. 21, the longtime coach “would have been terminated.”