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10-15-2008, 06:10 AM
Reds begin to prepare for Fire
Toronto players back at BMO Field
Toronto FC's squad returned to training at BMO Field on Tuesday morning to begin preparing for Saturday's final home game of the regular season against Chicago Fire (kick off 3:30 p.m. live on CBC). "The lads who played on Saturday did some work in the gym with Paul Winsper," said Reds coach John Carver.
Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081014&content_id=195820&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
Canadian cities among bids for MLS franchises
MATTHEW SEKERES
Major League Soccer, the burgeoning circuit with 14 teams and plans to add four franchises in the next three years, closes its request for expansion applications today and will receive bids from Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa.
Read more (http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081015.wspt_mls14/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home)
Eliminated Canada hosts Mexico
THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON -- Canada's men's soccer team, riven by dissension and erratic play, promised Tuesday that even though it missed the World Cup cut, it won't play out the string against Mexico.
"We've got to show a bit of character, show a little bit of what we're all about," defender Kevin McKenna of Calgary said at a news conference prior to the Wednesday night match at Commonwealth Stadium.
Reda more (http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/2008/10/14/WCup-Canada-0/)
Reds players in World Cup action
Six involved in international matches
Toronto FC will be represented on the international stage again this week with six Reds players involved in World Cup Qualifying matches. Carl Robinson is in the Wales squad to face Germany in Monchengladbach on Wednesday. Robinson came on in the 56th minute in Wales' 2-0 win over Lichtenstein at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. ...
read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081014&content_id=195821&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
Meaning for Mexicans
By TERRY JONES (tjones@edmsun.com)
EDMONTON -- Sven-Goran Eriksson remembers being in a jackpot like this once before. It was back when he was coaching England in World Cup qualifying.
Now the coach of Mexico, he'd been getting a good grilling by four dozen members of the Mexican media yesterday at a team press conference at Sutton Place, when your correspondent, one of the four members of the Canadian media, asked the question.
"I easily remember one," he laughed of a World Cup qualifying loss with England which compared to the one Mexico suffered on the weekend in Jamaica.
"It was to Northern Ireland. If you lose to Northern Ireland like that, people want to kill you."
Read more (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/soccer/2008/10/15/7088641-sun.html)
Velez hopes to keep his place
Reds defender happy to get chance
Toronto FC defender Marco Velez hopes his performance against FC Dallas will earn him another start in the Reds final home game of the regular season against Chicago Fire at BMO Field on Saturday (kick off 3:30 p.m. live on CBC). Velez returned to the starting team for the first time since getting sent off in the defeat to Chivas USA on September 6th, and scored his second goal of the season.
Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081014&content_id=195859&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/) :thumbsup: :hurray:
Toronto players back at BMO Field
Toronto FC's squad returned to training at BMO Field on Tuesday morning to begin preparing for Saturday's final home game of the regular season against Chicago Fire (kick off 3:30 p.m. live on CBC). "The lads who played on Saturday did some work in the gym with Paul Winsper," said Reds coach John Carver.
Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081014&content_id=195820&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
Canadian cities among bids for MLS franchises
MATTHEW SEKERES
Major League Soccer, the burgeoning circuit with 14 teams and plans to add four franchises in the next three years, closes its request for expansion applications today and will receive bids from Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa.
Read more (http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081015.wspt_mls14/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home)
Eliminated Canada hosts Mexico
THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON -- Canada's men's soccer team, riven by dissension and erratic play, promised Tuesday that even though it missed the World Cup cut, it won't play out the string against Mexico.
"We've got to show a bit of character, show a little bit of what we're all about," defender Kevin McKenna of Calgary said at a news conference prior to the Wednesday night match at Commonwealth Stadium.
Reda more (http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/2008/10/14/WCup-Canada-0/)
Reds players in World Cup action
Six involved in international matches
Toronto FC will be represented on the international stage again this week with six Reds players involved in World Cup Qualifying matches. Carl Robinson is in the Wales squad to face Germany in Monchengladbach on Wednesday. Robinson came on in the 56th minute in Wales' 2-0 win over Lichtenstein at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. ...
read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081014&content_id=195821&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
Meaning for Mexicans
By TERRY JONES (tjones@edmsun.com)
EDMONTON -- Sven-Goran Eriksson remembers being in a jackpot like this once before. It was back when he was coaching England in World Cup qualifying.
Now the coach of Mexico, he'd been getting a good grilling by four dozen members of the Mexican media yesterday at a team press conference at Sutton Place, when your correspondent, one of the four members of the Canadian media, asked the question.
"I easily remember one," he laughed of a World Cup qualifying loss with England which compared to the one Mexico suffered on the weekend in Jamaica.
"It was to Northern Ireland. If you lose to Northern Ireland like that, people want to kill you."
Read more (http://www.torontosun.com/sports/soccer/2008/10/15/7088641-sun.html)
Velez hopes to keep his place
Reds defender happy to get chance
Toronto FC defender Marco Velez hopes his performance against FC Dallas will earn him another start in the Reds final home game of the regular season against Chicago Fire at BMO Field on Saturday (kick off 3:30 p.m. live on CBC). Velez returned to the starting team for the first time since getting sent off in the defeat to Chivas USA on September 6th, and scored his second goal of the season.
Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081014&content_id=195859&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/) :thumbsup: :hurray: