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Toronto FC TV: TFC vs Charleston Live
Toronto FC face the Charleston Battery in their first game of the 2010 Carolina Challenge Cup. The action kicks off Saturday, March 13 at 7:15 pm and will be available live on TorontoFC.ca.
All 2010 Carolina Challenge Cup games will be held at Blackbaud Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. This is Toronto FC’s 4th consecutive appearance at this pre-season tournament.
Carolina Challenge Cup Schedule
Saturday, March 13
Real Salt Lake vs DC United – 5:00 pm
Toronto FC vs Charleston Battery – 7:15 pm
Wednesday, March 17
Charleston Battery vs Real Salt Lake – 5:00 pm
Toronto FC vs DC United – 7:15 pm
Saturday, March 20
Toronto FC vs Real Salt Lake – 5:00 pm
Charleston Battery vs DC United – 7:15 pm
Getting The Best Out Of De Guzman
Paul James
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No excuses for de Guzman this season
If Toronto FC expect to challenge for a playoff spot this season, then designated player Julian de Guzman will have to make an impact. So far he has received a tepid reception by TFC fans.
Joining the team during the final phase of the 2009 season, de Guzman looked a little off the pace, especially considering TFC director of soccer Mo Johnston laid out millions to acquire the Toronto-born talent.
While reasons for his lacklustre displays can be pinned on his inactivity for most of the 2009 Major League Soccer season – a layoff caused, in part, by the wrangling with his former European club, Deportivo La Coruna in Spain – there can be no such excuse this season.
I Know, I Know
Ben Knight
Ben Knight writes and publishes
Onward!
Drat this little league
I am so tired of “understanding” Major League Soccer.
All the blessed ins and outs of the league’s financial life-support system. Allocation money, discovery claims, low salary cap and young players who make less money than I do. (And, lately, I don’t.)
Yes, it’s all done a lovely job of keeping Our Little League alive in the bad-old economy. No, players have no guarantees in their contracts, any paycheque can be their last, and if they do get cut mid-season, no other team will sign them.
“It’s the only way it can be,” thunder the league’s defender-protectors, who can’t wait for a season when all sixteen clubs finish within a game of .500. How exciting will that be?
If that’s what you want, BigSoccer, why not save a ton of travel money, put sixteen logos in a bingo bin and draw your champion at random? Then the fans can all spend their ticket and travel money on booze and gummy bears, and no one will have to pay the players a thin, blessed dime!
I know, I know. Be happy that we have a league at all. I am. But I wanted so much more from the current CBA negotiations. I actually like the idea of salary caps in soccer. Just not with such stiflingly low ceilings.
Economy, economy, right, right, the economy.
