Ben Knight
writes and publishes Onward!
The agony of victory
When it was almost over – when Toronto FC’s shaky passage to the group stages proper of the CONCACAF Champions League was all but assured – Red Patch Boys president Boris Roberto Aguilar locked eyes with me across a bar table and an empty pitcher of beer.
“I don’t think my heart can take six more games of this!” he gasped.
Boris is a charming soul: a big guy with a broad and easy smile. He spent the evening at Red Patch Central – the Shoeless Joe’s next to Lamport Stadium in Toronto’s brick-and-shadow west-end warehouse row. He was surrounded by friends, and full of chicken wings.
And he had endured a night of agony.
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