Len Ziehm, in his 40th year in the Sun-Times sports department, became the paper’s soccer beat writer in 1984 and covered championship runs by the Sting in the North American Soccer League in 1984, the Power in in the National Professional Soccer League in 1991 and the Fire in its first season of Major League Soccer in 1998. Ziehm, who also coached youth teams for 12 years at the Palatine Celtic Soccer Club and Schwaben Athletic Club, was inducted into the Illinois Soccer Hall of Fame in 2004.