Category: News
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Toronto FC SSH Ticket Delivery Day – Or What Have The Marketing Folk Come Up With This Year?
Early yesterday morning the word went out on Twitter that this year’s SSH tickets were being delivered – which for me means the season has actually begun. I know, I know, they’ve played four games; but if you haven’t seen your team live for months and don’t have tickets in front of you, then it…
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TFC ‘Blue Moon’ their supporters, announce friendly against Manchester City.
It’s a tough schedule Toronto FC have got this year, 7 road games to start the season is already putting them in a hole points wise. When the bigger and flashier BMO Field and all it’s associated money hoovering clubs, tunnel or otherwise finally opens, the games will come thick and fast. The Voyageurs Cup…
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Toronto FC sign Clement Simonin. MLS gonna MLS.
Given the Team Americaness of this year’s Toronto FC, international absences was always going to be something that would cause a problem sporadically throughout the year. Given the age and/or injury history of some of the more important TFC players, injuries were always going to be something that would randomly cause problems throughout the year.…
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New Canada kit revealed. And other assorted Canadian bits and bobs.
It’s been a busy week for the CSA’s press people, with all sorts of National Teams related announcements. There was the latest squad release for the men’s upcoming friendlies against Guatemala and Puerto Rico, as well as the announcement of the Women’s team playing their final World Cup warm up game against England, for some…
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II Way Street – TFC makes use of USL affiliate with loan of seven
It seems like the partnership between Toronto FC and its USL affiliate TFC II (“The Search for Mo’s Gold”) is already proving beneficial at both levels. The organization announced today that the big club would be sending seven players currently on its roster on loan to the USL side as they prepare for their club…
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II Unlimited: USL Affiliate TFC II Adds Eight To Roster
Whether you call them “The Baby Reds”; “The Deuce” or the name that all the kidz on the streetz are calling them – “Wunderland AFC” (ok, maybe that’s just me) – TFC II, Toronto FC’s USL affiliate, is starting to take shape. With the inaugural season kicking off less than two weeks from now against…
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Canada gets to play in Toronto! wow! Also, yikes, tough group.
The news came out a while back that Toronto would get to play host to a Gold Cup double header this year, featuring two games from Costa Rica’s group. Very exciting, but just who might be the other 3 teams that would emerge from what was surely a fair, random and in no way rigged draw…
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Captain America. TFC give armband to Michael Bradley
We all knew this was coming. Michael Bradley seemed like the obvious successor to Steven Caldwell as club captain, as much due to his pricetag and reputation as to his (inconsistently last year) inspirational play on the pitch. There’d been chatter of his opinion being very valuable to Tim Bezbatchenko last season, and this off…
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Voyageurs Cup schedule released.
So, it’s a big day for soccer in Toronto, are you all excited? A plane is indeed arriving from Italy, as many of them do every day, TFC are trying to turn ‘Seba’s arrival into a big thing, I’m intrigued to see just how much of a crowd their prompting will induce, obviously him signing…
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Atomic Ant Marches In Early: Giovinco to TFC for the start of the season.
This should come as no surprise to anyone really. There has been plenty of talk recently of Toronto FC ‘hoping’ to have Sebastian Giovinco in Toronto as soon as possible, of Giovinco’s agent in talks with Juventus about getting him out of his contract. Also, the talk at the press conference announcing his signing was of…