Steel FC’s Playoff Appearances Sowing Seeds For the Future
In 2016, Bethlehem Steel FC debuted in USL as Philadelphia Union’s affiliate club. As now, Brendan Burke was the head coach and James Chambers was in the team (though, unlike now, not as much as he wanted to be). 2016 also happened to be the year Earnie Stewart took over as Sporting Director of Philadelphia Union, and his vision of Steel didn’t entirely mesh with the makeup of the roster at the time. As Chambers has said multiple times recently, the situation was not what he and others expected it to be, and it wasn’t until he and Burke had a sit down that he came to embrace his role as a veteran leader on a development-driven team.