Mornin'
`Laid-back' Cummins takes over TFC's reins
Carver successor vows `attacking football' from East conference leader
Daniel Girard
Chris Cummins, the new interim head coach of Toronto FC, says he's not the type of guy to get too worked up about poor officiating.
"Things like that don't bother me if I'm honest with you," Cummins said yesterday after being named successor to John Carver, who quit last week. "I'm quite laid back."
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Cue up the Crew
TFC's fierce rivals from Columbus poised to invade BMO Field
By BILL LANKHOF
The Columbus Crew is coming to Toronto.
Quick, someone hide the women and children.
The Crew and Toronto FC bring out the beast in each other -- and that's just in the stands.
If this were the western frontier of the 1800s, Saturday's meeting would be the equivalent of the Clanton boys riding into Tombstone to party with the Earps.
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Playoffs, or pride?
Ryan Johnston
Quick thought: It is impossible to spell fact or fiction without T, F, or C.
Anyhow, it was this line of thinking that prompted me to corner the man behind the matches at BMO Field this summer, friend of new media and Director of Business Operations for Toronto FC, Paul Beirne.
In its three-year existence, Toronto FC has been active in organizing friendly dates at BMO Field that satisfies the international football flavour of the people who walk through the turnstiles each summer.
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Out with the old
Never a dull moment. I drove down the QEW to Oakville Wednesday morning to interview former Toronto FC coach John Carver, and
less than two hours later I was at the TFC news conference announcing Chris Cummins as interim coach.
First things first.
You"ll be able to catch the interview with Carver in the video section of our website and you can also watch it on the Stetanta Sports Canada edition of Soccercentral Thursday evening at 8:45 EDT.
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Mo making moves to strengthen Toronto FC's footing
By LANCE HORNBY
Having absorbed the speed bump of John Carver's resignation, manager Mo Johnston is trying to keep the Toronto FC bus in the fast lane.
There are injured players to be worked back into the lineup such as Dwayne De Rosario (hamstring) and first-round pick O'Brian White (knee), teenage Gambian defender Amadou Sanyang is being evaluated with more kids en route while the search continues for a centre back, a position Johnston said was the "missing piece of the puzzle" during the pre-season.
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Cummins delighted by appointment
Reds Interim Head Coach ready to meet challenge
Chris Cummins was appointed as Toronto FC's new Interim Head Coach Wednesday and is ready to meet the challenge of his new position. "I'm delighted to be given the opportunity." said Cummins. "People have got faith in me and have seen what I have been able to do over the last few weeks and it is important that I continue that now. It's not a case of relaxing now I have got the job. We have to build on what we have achieved so far and stay at the top of the table. We're always looking to develop and progress."
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Carver talks to Soccercentral
SPORTSNET.CA
John Carver's tenure as coach of Toronto FC came to an unceremonious end when the club issued a press release announcing the second-year coach had resigned one day before he was to coach his team at BMO Field.
Soccercentral's Gerry Dobson sat down with Carver in an exclusive interview to find out what happened.
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Hart in charge again
MATTHEW WUEST
When Stephen Hart moved to Canada in 1980, he loved soccer. But if someone had told him he would one day be one of Canada’s most influential figures in the sport, the native of Trinidad and Tobago might have laughed heartily.
“I actually came to Canada to do a degree along the lines of something marine,” says Hart, who is now interim head coach of Canada’s men’s team, as well as the technical director of the Canadian Soccer Association. “My intentions were completely different. But fate had it differently.”
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