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TFC sets 'high standard' in season-opening win
'The guys didn't get their heads down for a minute,' De Rosario says
Daniel Girard
KANSAS CITY – It's one win, coming in the early spring of a season that lasts until fall.
But Toronto FC's 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Wizards on Saturday night offered some positive signs as the team embarks on its third Major League Soccer season.
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Just don't go planning that TFC parade, yet
By GARETH WHEELER
Like a flashback from a good old Seinfeld episode, "Nobody beats me, because I'm the Wiz".
That line, once delivered with such hilarity, made me laugh at its preposterousness once again Saturday.
Amado Guevara, Dwayne De Rosario and company shredded through the Kansas City Wizards with an efficient brand of attacking soccer, winning their season opener, 3-2.
Nevermind the Wizards uninspiring performance, TFC was thorough, and more often than not, in control in a statement win on the road, something previously missing from their repertoire.
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Opening win a fresh start for Toronto FC
Beats Kansas City; Guevara scores twice as TFC starts with win for first time
Sean Fitz-Gerald, NP
Only one team has missed the playoffs in each of its first three seasons of competition in Major League Soccer, and a few days before he opened his third campaign with Toronto FC, captain Jim Brennan held firm to the belief his hometown team would not become the second entry on that list.
He believed in his teammates, and in the law of averages.
"It's inevitable," he said last week. "I mean, you're not going to have another 20 years of not making the playoffs. Of course you'll make the playoffs."
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Opening win a breakthrough for TFC
Road victory represents first-ever season-opening win for third-year club
By Bob Rusert / MLSnet.com Staff
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A new day for Toronto FC has been signaled. Saturday's 3-2 win at Kansas City was the third-year club's first win in a season opener and one of only five away wins in its brief history. "You can tell by the smile on my face I'm absolutely delighted," said TFC head coach John Carver. "Our away record last season wasn't great, and it was important we came into the first game of the season and got something from it. I'm delighted with the three points, delighted with the performance."
The Reds displayed a complete side -- a potent and opportune attack and a stingy defense, despite two spectacular strikes from Wizards midfielder Davy Arnaud.
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TFC opens season on winning note - and on the road
PAUL ATTFIELD
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or so it seems for Toronto FC. With the new additions dominating the headlines in the buildup to Saturday's kickoff, it was the team's first signing, Jim Brennan, and 2008 holdover Amado Guevara who accounted for the scoring during a 3-2 win in Kansas City against the Wizards.
The result was an important franchise first: victory in a season-opener. The fact it came on the road - Toronto had just four road wins through its first two seasons - and the team successfully defended a one-goal lead for the last quarter of an hour, pleased head coach John Carver almost as much as the three points.
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