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Welcome To CONCACAF
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.
We Aren’t Being Fooled
Ben Knight
writes and publishes Onward!
Well, what did we expect?
Understand. No one much goes to Toronto FC press conferences expecting to hear “the truth.”
Every last member of the press corps understands, on the way past security and down the concrete chutes and past more security, that what we will be presented with is “the spin.”
The trick – the almighty guessing game, truth be told – is to try to hook “the spin” back to some reasonable version of “the truth”. But this is a universe where “reasonable” remains undefined, so those of us who dare to draw conclusions are – for the most part – guessing.
And so, while your guess is as good as mine, here’s mine:
As Another One Bites The Dust
Paul James
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TFC not to blame for lack of Canadian talent
After appearing in 26 regular-season games last year, defender Adrian Serioux was released by Toronto FC last week.
Why the 30-year-old Toronto native was deemed surplus to requirements by the new, energized-but-no-nonsense technical staff of Canada’s lone Major League Soccer franchise isn’t the concern. The more significant issue here is the limited depth chart of Canadian soccer talent.
As another one bites the dust, so to speak, it again highlights the need for all three professional franchises in this country – TFC and the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact of the United States Soccer Federation Division 2 – to address their development model for nurturing young Canadian players with the right technical and psychological attributes for competing at the professional level and, by extension, the national team.
