First-year NASL team FC Edmonton has joined the Canadian soccer party, linking up Toronto FC, the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact in the Nutrilite Canadian Championship that qualifies thewinner for the Concacaf Champions League. Edmonton opens against TFC Wednesday at Commonwealth Stadium. “It will be our first game, in Edmonton, in a big stadium, so […]
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TFC to spent $18 million on training facility
Toronto FC will spent $18 million on an academy and training facility at Downsview Park in north Toronto. The facility will include three grass fields — one that will be heated and mirror BMOField — one artificial turf field under a bubble and a fieldhouse that will house locker rooms and offices. Construction is slated […]
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Crew and FC Dallas test their makeovers
Some changes were forced and some were discretionary, but regardless of motivation, the Crew and FC Dallas, which meet In the second Friday night game of the season (7:30 p.m., Fox Soccer Channel),aren’t what they were in 2010. The Crew has shed several members of its 2008 championship team. In his MLS tenure, Guillermo Barros […]
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Vancouver-Toronto game draws record audience
[TELEVISION WATCH] How big is MLS’s newest rivalry in Canada? The first all-Canada game between the Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC drew an average of289,000 viewers on TSN, making its the most-watched MLS game in Canadian television history. The first game of TSN’s six-year deal drew 1.4 million viewers who tuned in at one point […]
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Toronto FC adds four homegrown players
[MLS] Toronto FC signed four more players from their academy program, giving them six homegrown players, the most of any MLS along with FC Dallas. For MLS’s 38homegrown players … HOME-GROWN PLAYERS FC Dallas (6) GP-G PLAYER,COUNTRY (YEAR SIGNED) 1-0 Bryan Levya, Mexico (2009) 4-0 Ruben Luna, Mexico (2010) 0-0 Moises Hernandez, USA (2010) 0-0 […]
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Fire finishes a man down and a goal down to D.C.
[MLS] For the second game in a row at the Carolina Challenge Cup and third preseason game in a row, Chicago lost a player to a red card and this time it provedcostly as the Fire fell to D.C. United. In Wednesday’s other game the host Charleston Battery beat Toronto FC, 2-1. After falling behind […]
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All quiet on transfer front
[MY VIEW] With the close of the winter transfer window in most of Europe, this should be the season for MLS clubs to step in and grab the headlines on thetransfer front. But except for the news that D.C. United has agreed to take Charlie Davies on loan, conditional on how the Sochaux striker looks […]
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TFC holds off Partizan in opening draw
[MLS] Toronto FC opened up its preseason campaign with a 1-1 tie against Serbian powerhouse Partizan at the Calista Luxury Resort near Antalya in Turkey onWednesday. In its first game under new coach Aron Winter, TFC used six trialists and two academy players. NanaAttakora scored early in the first half for Toronto FC, while Nemanja […]
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Toronto FC starts revamping project in Turkey
[MLS] The first stage of New Era Redux is underway for Toronto FC, which travels Thursday to Turkey for its first training camp under AronWinter, who since New Year’s Day has been to the MLS Player Combine and picked eight players in the SuperDraft and Supplementary Draft. In his first stint as a head coach,Winter […]
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Toronto FC gets Dutch touch from Winter
[MLS] Can Aron Winter turn Toronto FC into a bastion of Total Soccer, or will the former Dutch international be more like compatriot RuudGullit? TFC has changed course, again, by selecting Winter as head coach and technical director; in essence, he replaces manager/director of soccer operations Mo Johnstonand head coach Preki, who were both dismissed […]