Mornin'
Sorry,no TFC news for now.
Impact news are all over the net,here are some of them.
Big Montreal crowd takes in winter soccer
MONTREAL — The pitcher's mound is long gone, now part of a soccer field.
Five years after the Montreal Expos left town, Olympic Stadium filled up Wednesday night, a big change for the mostly idle and mostly problematic home of the 1976 Summer Olympics.
A near-capacity crowd of 55,571 took in a CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal game, a 2-0 win for the Montreal Impact of the United Soccer League over Mexican club Santos Laguna.
Read MoreAnother quarterfinal in Houston on Tuesday night drew just more than 10,000 fans for a 1-1 tie between the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer and Atlante FC of Mexico.
Impact have upper hand
MONTREAL — So does this mean professional soccer is now officially a winter sport in Canada? Legions of raucous fans turned out to cheer the Montreal Impact to a comprehensive 2-0 triumph against Mexican side Santos Laguna in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final at a packed Olympic Stadium last night.
The atmosphere was charged with the din of 55,571 people filling the aging stadium — the teams played on a synthetic surface that's a leftover from the under-20 World Cup in 2007 — for the first midwinter pro soccer fixture to be held in Montreal.
"The support we had in the stands was unbelievable … everybody wants to make it seem like this is a hockey nation. This is not a hockey nation, this is a soccer nation," said midfielder Sandro Grande, who played a key role in the win.
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Impact shut out Santos in CONCACAF Champions League
Eduardo Sebrango scored twice as the Montreal Impact shut out Santos Laguna of Mexico 2-0 in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-finals at Olympic Stadium on Wednesday night. "They have one foot in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League," CBC Sports broadcaster Nigel Reed said as the final whistle sounded.
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