[CANADIAN NUTRILITE CHAMPIONSHIP] Philippe Billy‘s goal in the 62nd minute gave the Montreal Impact a 1-1 tie with theVancouver Whitecaps at Stade Saputo and assured MLS’s Toronto FC of defending the Canadian Nutrilite Championship. Ansu Toure scored the lone goal for Vancouver, whichneeded to win in order to advance to keep alive its hopes of […]
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Japan's Okada offers to quit
[WORLD CUP WARMUPS] Japan coach Takeshi Okada offered to quit after the Blue Samurai lost at home to archrival SouthKorea. Argentina coach Diego Maradona was pleased, but Australia’s Pim Verbeek was livid with two of his players.Meanwhile, Portugal’s Carlos Queiroz was surprisingly low key after his team’s 0-0 tie at home against Cape Verde Islands. […]
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Tie leaves TFC just short of title
[NUTRILITE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP] MLS’s Toronto FC will have to wait at least one more week to repeat as Nutrilite Canadian Championship winner and clinch aspot in the Concacaf Champions League preliminary round. TFC and Vancouver played a 0-0 tie at Swangard Stadium Wednesday that kept the Whitecaps alive, barely, in the three-team competition.With two wins […]
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Toronto fans seek early World Cup drinking
Toronto mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone supports a move to allow bars and restaurants to serve alcohol beginning at 10 a.m. during the World Cup. Games willgenerally air at 7:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. local time, but according to city law, alcohol can’t be served until 11 a.m. “The nature of celebrations is that […]
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MLS to expand to Montreal
After Toronto, which joined MLS in 2007, and Vancouver, which will begin play in 2011, MLS is expanding to a third Canadian city, Montreal, in 2012. MLS’s 19th team was announced at anews conference Friday morning. It will be operated by the Saputo family, who own the Montreal Impact, which won the 2009 USL First […]
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Impact earns tie at Vancouver with nine men
[NUTRILITE CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP] For the second game in a row, the Montreal Impact had to play short-handed on the road — this time it finished with nineplayers — but this time it managed to draw, 1-1, against the Vancouver Whitecaps. In its previous game, the Impact fell to Toronto FC, 2-0, and had Roberto Brown […]
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Whitecap scorer breaks ankle on winning goal
[D-2 PRO LEAGUE] Algerian-Frenchman Mouloud Akloul paid a steep price for scoring the only goal in Vancouver’s 1-0win Saturday over pointless AC Saint Louis. The new signing, who has played for teams in France, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates, scored with his right foot off Martin Nash‘s corner but landed awkwardly on his trailing […]
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FC Gold Pride, from last to first
[WPS] FC Gold Pride, which finished last in Women’s Professional Soccer in 2009, temporarily took over first place on Saturday night with a 2-1 win overexpansion Atlanta. Despite playing without starters Christine Sinclair and Candace Chapman, who were Canadafor its match against China in Chinngqong on Saturday — 2-0 win for China — the Pride […]
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Canada beefs up national team schedule
The much-maligned Canadian national team program got a boost on Friday with news that it will play five international friendlies between May 24 and Oct. 8, including matches in Toronto andMontreal. That’s two more than Canada played at home in 2009. Canada begins play on May 24 against World Cup finalist Argentina in Buenos Aires […]
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Grand finale heads north for first time
[MLS] Shiny, spiffy, brand-new Red BullArena will have to wait to stage an MLS Cup. And that’s probably a good thing. A week after Commissioner Don Garber hinted during ateleconference call with reporters that the league’s championship game would be staged north of the border, an official announcement came Tuesday of a Nov. 21 title […]