TFC Academy to play Colo Colo in Waterloo June 29th
Toronto FC Academy’s Senior Team will play Chilean soccer giant Colo Colo in a friendly match on Tuesday, June 29th at Wilfrid Laurier University Stadium in Waterloo. Kick off is 7:35 p.m.
Tickets are $20/$40 children/adults which is a little steep for the academy however this is a great opportunity to support the reds from the home town.
Not worried to say that I will be there to support against the Reds and for my team Colo ColoOriginally Posted by Razcle
Toronto FC Academy’s Senior Team will play Chilean soccer giant Colo Colo in a friendly match on Tuesday, June 29th at Wilfrid Laurier University Stadium in Waterloo. Kick off is 7:35 p.m.
Tickets are $20/$40 children/adults which is a little steep for the academy however this is a great opportunity to support the reds from the home town.
Yeah, this will be a good day next tuesday!!
already getting my shit together for the game.
Jersey: Check
Scarf: Check
Flag(s): Check
Flares: Check (lol, maybe)
Voice for singing: Check
Passion: Check x 2
This is going to be great!
I didn't expect this at all, the price is a bit too much, my Chilean roommate won't go because the price is too much. I'm thinking I'll be kicking myself in the ass later if I don't go.Not worried to say that I will be there to support against the Reds and for my team Colo Colo
Yeah, this will be a good day next tuesday!!
The stadium is shit though, artificial turf from what I remember, seating for a few thousand at most, and there will most likely be pig skin lines all over the field. Plus its TFC Academy and not TFC for F'n sakes! $40?!? Where do they come up with this price point?
If I go, I'll be supporting the red's though, they're my club first and foremost.
I forgot to ask in my last post if you made it out to Edmonton?
No man i didnt... some personal stuff came about and couldnt make the trip. luckily this is a short drive away
How can I not go right? It's a 10 minute drive from my house... I'm just pissed they're gauging me!No man i didnt... some personal stuff came about and couldnt make the trip. luckily this is a short drive away
Have you bought your tickets yet?
Right about Field Turf and Canadian Football lines. Wrong about capacity. It holds 6000.
Remember, this isn't a TFC event. It's being run by Edmonton FC / Mel Kowulchuk so they're to blame for the price point. Edmonton had brought Colo Colo up here with the promise of three matches as part of their mid-season camp. Edmonton played them last week losing 4-3.
TFC helped out by allowing the Academy to take part as apparently a pro team in eastern Canada pulled out. Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that Edmonton is losing their shirt on this venture. They've claimed their overhead is $100k on this trip from Alberta.
Colo Colo plays Vitoria on June 27th in Edmonton.
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I wonder if the Edmonton group initially tried to get the game against the TFC at BMO, which with this three week break could have work, and MLSE deemed this not a big enough team to make it worthwhile to open up BMO from a financial standpoint.
An international friendly at the m id-way point of this break would have been great. Apparently the side from Brazil, Vitoria who is playing Colo Colo in Edmonton is going to be facing off against a CSL All-Star team in Toronto.
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
Colo Colo is a bigger team than Bolton.
Yup.. bought 4 !!
He's going to lose a mega fortune when only a few hundred people show up because he priced it out of reason. That and I don't think you can buy tickets at the gate for this game. It's ticket master or nothing from what I gathered when I tried to buy from their website.
It is not that you can not buy tickets at the gate, it is that you can not pick up tickets ordered through ticketmaster at the stadium, there is not a TM system there.
Remember The Man, The Legend, The Goal 5-12-07 and All That #9 Left On The Pitch, Thanks For The Memories !!!
lmao... dude Colo Colo is 30x the team TFC is and 15X the team Bolton Wanderers are for that matter.
might just be a timing issue or whatever it may be but to say MLSE deemed them not be a big enough team is quite absurd.
Actually I take that MLSE part back... they have shown to be quite clueless and can be a wee bit daft more often than not in certain cases.
Waterloo? What the hell is that?! I can't make it to another galaxy just to watch this.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCK
and I'm on afternoons that week
I heard (on the TFC TV press conf) some trialists and TFC 1st team players might get into the game as well. I'm probably going to head up for this game. should be a fun little trip.
Quite frankly K-W should have a MLS team by now, Jim Balsille needs to get behind this!
The thought has crossed my mind as well....
Shall we get a petition going at the game, perhaps we can present it to Balsille? K-W would easily support a MLS team if a proper stadium, grass, was built.
Are you from the area? If so you should come and hang out with the KW Company at the Failte Pub for some away games....
okay well i'll probably be there now
A tie is not a bad result for TFCA.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
Wow, not bad at all. Colo-Colo needed an own goal by Matheson just to draw...
that a great result
well done kids
so anyone's ready to replace Sanyang/Garcia/Saric/Hiscanovic/Usnov (in that order) yet?
A match report from Chile:
http://www.terra.cl/deportes/index.c...id_reg=1449203 (in Spanish)
Babelfish translation:
CANADA, June, 30. - Colo Colo finished well mannered its tour by Canada after to secure to a tie 4-4 against Toronto FC before 1500 people, culminating unconquered its adventure by North American grounds.
In spite of the fit one of the marker, the beginning of the encounter was for the white ones, after abrir the numbers by means of the new reinforcement, Lucas Wilchez, when just minutes ran both. Nevertheless, to the 8 Nicholas Lindsay tied the account, but Ezequiel Miralles would leave well to the things for the cacique when the marking the 2-1 again the 11.
With the advantage in the marker the targets dominated, however, Lindsay equaled the numbers again and worse still to the 28, Keven German decreed the third party for the Canadians.
In the complement, Colo Colo left however, but it against was with the fourth goal through Lindsay the 61. Thus the things, it seemed that the party was sentenced, nevertheless, six minutes later Jose Pedro Fuenzalida could discount.
After the goal, the Chilean picture went in search of the tie and Toro obtained to it in the feet of Sebastián, who as a forward decreed the definitive result of 4-4, and so Colo Colo culminated unconquered its tour by Canada when winning before to the Edmonton and the Vitoria.
Now one hopes that in the next days the national establishment returns to the country, where quickly they will initiate the works of recovery, because after the intense preseason they come with several players with physical problems.
Only 1500 people? That's a pity, even though it's just the academy.
MLS is a tough, physical league, that emphasizes speed, and features plastic fields, grueling travel, extreme weather, and incompetent refs. - NK Toronto
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