https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9Oubxw1gA
Have at It People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9Oubxw1gA
Have at It People
Laurent Robert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCVtTd0in5Q
Nobody had a youtube reel before arriving here like this guy did....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdtodZzrfwg
Javier Martina: first game scores a brace. Turns out to be junk afterwards
Rohan Ricketts: lots of tricks that looked good at first, then gets found out
Alen Stevanovic: same as Ricketts, except he gave up when Maicon Santos didn't pass him the ball and a chance went begging.
Pablo Vitti: lots of talent, but probably most snake bitten striker in TFC history
Jermain Defoe
Joe Bendik
John Bostock.
I still remember this goal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQd2dZ6fZWo
Gilberto has a claim there too. I swear he hit the post at least 10 times that season
Armando Cooper.
No no no no no no.... ;-)
Armando Cooper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMkkP_ghhkM
Cooper is on a very short list of players who played for TFC and started a game at a World Cup.
The easy ones are Bradley, Altidore, Frings and Cesar. Plus Cooper.
But I can think of at least one more that started ...
If we include players who didn't start but played, I can think of at least one other...
If we include players named that didn't play, I can think of at least one more ...
Go.
Vanney
Mista had a lot of hype and even got almost a standing ovation every time he went to take a free kick near the goal. Man we were desperate back then for someone to give us something to cheer for...
Very impressive. Every one of these is correct.
Brockie played a few minutes against Paraguay at WC 2010. Beitashour was named to Iran's 2014 23 man squad but never played.
This is most amusing, as none of these guys is who I was thinking of when I did the post. So there is at least one more out there in each category, folks...
Very good. Guevara started. Boyens was named but didn’t play. Same for Ciman. I didn’t have Samuel, but you are correct about him. Omar Gonzalez started in WC 2014. Gomez came on as a sub multiple times in WC 2010.
There is by my count still one unnamed guy out there that played for TFC and played in a World Cup game (actually two of them, as a sub both times).
Wait.
There is yet one more guy that started a World Cup game and played for TFC! Hint: he started two games.
Plus one more that played three games...
Robbie Findley 2010 WC
Torsten Frings 2006 WC
Winner!
Convey's free kick against Italy in 2006 was one of the great moments in USMNT history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWedoNpFMCM
As much as I didn't like him, VDW was great in the CCL and then went to total trash once the regular season started.