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Jesse Marsch (born November 8, 1973 in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American soccer defensive midfielder, the first player to win three MLS Cup championships. He currently plays for the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer.
Marsch played college soccer at Princeton University, where he was an All-American in 1995, after scoring 16 goals as a midfielder/forward. He was drafted by D.C. United (their assistant coach was his coach at Princeton, Bob Bradley) in the third round of the 1996 MLS College Draft. Marsch spent the next two seasons with DC, but only played in 15 games.
Bradley, the first coach of the expansion Fire, acquired Marsch soon after the Expansion Draft in exchange for A.J. Wood and a second round pick in the 1998 College Draft. Jesse immediately became a regular for the Fire and has been ever-present in their lineup since. He helped the team to the 1998 MLS Cup, giving him three in three seasons in the league. With the Fire, Marsh also won the US Open Cup in 1998, 2000, and 2003. As of the end of the 2004 season, he is Chicago's all-time leader in regular season games played with 172. Overall in MLS, he scored 18 goals and added 30 assists (plus two goals and three assists in the playoffs).
Marsh received one cap with the United States national team, playing against Trinidad and Tobago on November 11, 2001.
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