So now we know why Giovinco wasn't available Saturday. He was downtown chilling and playing some keep ups with Eros.
Check out this tweet at https://twitter.com/MLSELive/status/782586279263399936
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/1...d-mls-cup-2016
Interview with Seba, including this:
MLSsoccer.com: How many more years left on your contract and have there already been talks to extend your stay in Toronto?
Giovinco: [laughing] Yes, there are still four years left [Giovinco signed a 6-year contract through the end of 2020]. And I think on my part there’s a desire to continue here and I think on their end [TFC], as well.
I think Gio is going to have a massive game tomorrow. Space is going to open up for him as Altidore is going to draw a crowd all game.
Seba with his scoring boots back on. He's tied with Jozy and ex Red Findley. Chasing Guevara.
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A brace for Seba puts him past Jozy all time AND Amado Guevara. Let the floodgates open!
The next ex-red he's chasing is Alan Gordon all time.
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Another brace, another passing Jozy. What a run.
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Watching his post game interview...wow, his English has improved a lot! kudos
Another one for Seba means he pulls away from Jozy again.
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http://www.wakingthered.com/toronto-...fc-injury-news
If Seba does have plantar fascia, then its time for the TFC staff to give Seba a few weeks to rest. In the meantime, I would love to see Jordan Hamilton or Ben Spencer step up their game and show they are capable of being first team material (again).
Well, fuck. I have Plantar Fasciitis from playing soccer, and it's been healing for almost 4 years now but I still can't play without significant pain. (My last specialists prognosis was "just learn to live with it, you'll never run again").
I hope that Seba has access to better docs so that he can get it healed up, but I suspect it will require surgery and rehab and that he might be done for the season if he's not able to play a full half.
I heard he was stepped on in the last game and his achilles was so swollen he had trouble putting on his boots. That makes sense given they described his injury as his "heel." That would probably be better than plantar fascitis which can take a long time to heal.
It's actually a double whammy;
When your Achilles swell because of the fasciitis, you can develop retrocalcaneal bursitis, which is a swelling of the "bump" on the back of your heel. It's the foot equivalent of Carpal Tunnel. Both can take a really long time to heal, and surgery weakens the tendon to the point hat you can't run on it, ever.
My bursitis took 6-8 months or rest and constant icing to come down, bu the only exercise I could do was swimming. You can hit it with cortisone shots, but that will just make the whole problem much, much worse later on.
out 3 weeks with quad strain.
Hagglund out 2-3 months with torn ACL.
MCL for Haglund - ACL would be the end of his season.
Right. Of course.
This run of rapid-fire games is going to cost us "bigly" in injuries this season. With losses of players for the Gold Cup, we're really looking at a short bench this summer.
Speaking of, do we know who we will lose for the Gold Cup yet?
Sure things look like Altidore, Bradley, Cooper, Ricketts. We don't have a real idea on who Zambrano is gonna want going forward but it's possible any or all of Hamilton, Morgan, Chapman, Osorio and Edwards get called up.
Of those, I'm least convinced Hamilton or Morgan will go. They haven't played all year. but We could still easily be down between 7-9 guys for that stretch.
I think it's likely we sign 1-2 more academy players over the coming weeks.
Highly, Highly unlikely Morrow gets called up. That's why I left him out. Too many guys in front of him at the LB position for the US at the moment.
Morrow is not getting called up and Cooper won't come back to TFC after the Gold Cup as he will be shipped out.
We are really going to miss Ricketts if Canada calls him in with Altidore most likely gone to for the length of the tournament.
Actually Molinaro suggested in a story last month that Morrow might be in line for a spot on the Gold Cup roster: http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/justi...national-team/
It might happen sooner than Morrow thinks. Two notable reporters who cover the U.S. national team told Sportsnet that they expect the TFC defender to be included in Arena’s roster for this summer’s CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Wishful thinking, I think, on the part of his sources. Lichaj, Garza, Villafana, Johnson and probably Beasley sit comfortably ahead of Morrow at LB. That's not including the likes of Robbie Rogers, Taylor Kemp, Edgar Castillo and Jonathan Bornstein who all have some sort of leg up on him whether it's previous USMNT experience or previous relationship with Arena. I can't see Morrow beating out that many guys.
If Arena thought of him as being in that group of players he would have at least called him up to January camp.