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12-06-2008, 07:00 AM
Dichio set to stay with Reds
Striker agrees "in principal" to new deal
In front of hundreds of Toronto FC supporters at 'The Kit Party' Thursday night, Danny Dichio announced that he is staying with the team next season after agreeing a 1 year extension to his contract. The 34-year-old striker scored 5 goals in 2008 despite being troubled by injury.
Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081205&content_id=207844&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
Report: TFC Set to Lose Guevara
It appears Toronto F.C.'s Amado Guevara is headed home. Arguably TFC's best player last year the Honduran midfielder, according to reports in La Tribuna de Honduras, has already agreed to terms with his former team, Montagua. Reports from Guevara's agent however have stated that his client isn't going anywhere.
Read more (http://www.fan590.com/more.jsp?content=20081205_113627_10276)
TFC looks to future
Possible stadium expansion
By Neil Davidson, THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - With a season ticket waiting list at more than 13,000, Toronto FC is eyeing stadium expansion but not in the immediate future.
"We're thinking about a bunch of different things right now," said Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and CEO for Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment. "We're thinking about a proper training facility . . . we're long-term interested into putting grass in BMO Field."
Read more (http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Soccer/TorontoFC/2008/12/05/7647421-cp.html)
TORONTO FC LOOKING AT TRAINING FACILITY, STADIUM EXPANSION
TORONTO - With a season ticket waiting list at more than 13,000, Toronto FC is eyeing stadium expansion but not in the immediate future.
"We're thinking about a bunch of different things right now," said Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and CEO for Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment. "We're thinking about a proper training facility . . . we're long-term interested into putting grass in BMO Field."
Switching from FieldTurf to real grass would require the approval of the city, which owns the facility, and the province, which helped fund it. BMO Field is used as a community facility and the Major League Soccer franchise would have to come up with an alternate area for year-round public use if it went to grass.
Read more (http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=258541&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_soccer)
'Tis the season
Gerry Dobson
Even though it was a biting cold December evening when I walked into the Loose Moose in downtown Toronto, it immediately felt like soccer season. Between 200-300 TFC supporters were there in full voice in anticipation of the launch of the latest Reds jersey. (http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081204.wspt_tfc04/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home) The timing for such a venture was not a coincidence of course with Christmas less than three weeks away; although the league does mandate that all teams update their kits every two years.
Read more (http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/blogs/2008/12/05/dobson_tfc_jersey/)
SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/)
Striker agrees "in principal" to new deal
In front of hundreds of Toronto FC supporters at 'The Kit Party' Thursday night, Danny Dichio announced that he is staying with the team next season after agreeing a 1 year extension to his contract. The 34-year-old striker scored 5 goals in 2008 despite being troubled by injury.
Read more (http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20081205&content_id=207844&vkey=news_t280&fext=.jsp&team=t280)
Report: TFC Set to Lose Guevara
It appears Toronto F.C.'s Amado Guevara is headed home. Arguably TFC's best player last year the Honduran midfielder, according to reports in La Tribuna de Honduras, has already agreed to terms with his former team, Montagua. Reports from Guevara's agent however have stated that his client isn't going anywhere.
Read more (http://www.fan590.com/more.jsp?content=20081205_113627_10276)
TFC looks to future
Possible stadium expansion
By Neil Davidson, THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - With a season ticket waiting list at more than 13,000, Toronto FC is eyeing stadium expansion but not in the immediate future.
"We're thinking about a bunch of different things right now," said Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and CEO for Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment. "We're thinking about a proper training facility . . . we're long-term interested into putting grass in BMO Field."
Read more (http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Soccer/TorontoFC/2008/12/05/7647421-cp.html)
TORONTO FC LOOKING AT TRAINING FACILITY, STADIUM EXPANSION
TORONTO - With a season ticket waiting list at more than 13,000, Toronto FC is eyeing stadium expansion but not in the immediate future.
"We're thinking about a bunch of different things right now," said Tom Anselmi, executive vice-president and CEO for Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment. "We're thinking about a proper training facility . . . we're long-term interested into putting grass in BMO Field."
Switching from FieldTurf to real grass would require the approval of the city, which owns the facility, and the province, which helped fund it. BMO Field is used as a community facility and the Major League Soccer franchise would have to come up with an alternate area for year-round public use if it went to grass.
Read more (http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=258541&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_soccer)
'Tis the season
Gerry Dobson
Even though it was a biting cold December evening when I walked into the Loose Moose in downtown Toronto, it immediately felt like soccer season. Between 200-300 TFC supporters were there in full voice in anticipation of the launch of the latest Reds jersey. (http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081204.wspt_tfc04/GSStory/GlobeSportsSoccer/home) The timing for such a venture was not a coincidence of course with Christmas less than three weeks away; although the league does mandate that all teams update their kits every two years.
Read more (http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/blogs/2008/12/05/dobson_tfc_jersey/)
SUNSHINE (http://www.torontosun.com/sunshinegirl/)