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Toronto FC: Toronto FC/Canada Soccer Discussion Thread - 2023 Edition
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Clark4Ever
What we do in hockey echoes in eternity...
John Herdman was in the stands last night and the club gave their best effort of the season leading to a 3-1 victory over the heavily favored Philadelphia Union.
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Good move for TFC. bad look for CSA.
Man it was really nice having a national program we could be proud of.…. For like 1 year!
CSA going back to suck mode again. Gold cup was a warniNg sign.
Man it was really nice having a national program we could be proud of.…. For like 1 year!
CSA going back to suck mode again. Gold cup was a warniNg sign.
Major League Soccer terminates contract of CF Montreal midfielder Matko Miljevic | TSN
Major League Soccer announced the termination of the contract of CF Montreal midfielder Matko Miljevic on Monday, concluding one of the stranger sagas in league history.
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Matko Miljevic Jakob Glesnes - The Canadian Press
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Published Sep 18, 2023 at 12:55 PM ET
Major League Soccer announced the termination of the contract of CF Montreal midfielder Matko Miljevic on Monday, concluding one of the stranger sagas in league history.
The league's decision was made following an investigation into reports that the 22-year-old Miami-born player had been banned for life from a Quebec indoor amateur soccer league that Miljevic began playing in under an assumed name for punching another player in the face.
Playing in a league other than MLS is a violation of any standard MLS player contract.
On Thursday, CFMTL manager Hernan Losada confirmed that the team was aware of the allegations and Miljevic had been kept away from the team during the investigation.
“We were made aware of the situation, and there is an open investigation into this matter," Losada said. "Matko will not be in training until everything is resolved. The people who need to make decisions will make them, but it’s not for me to give my opinion while we’re in the middle of an investigation."
A product of the Boca Juniors academy, Miljevic was in his third season with the team, having found playing time hard to come by during the current campaign. In eight league appearances this season, Miljevic had 131 minutes of playing time.
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No More Excuses #MarnerOut
TMLeafer
Rest in Peace Johnny Bower
Michael Bradley is going to retire. What a crazy decade, the highs and lows...
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Toronto FC captain and United States midfielder Michael Bradley to retire at season's end | TSN
Michael Bradley is calling time on his career. Toronto FC announced Tuesday its captain will retire from football at the end of the season.
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He gave it all for the club and was a key contributor to the treble winning team. One of the clubs greatest legends, thanks for a great career MB4.
Well I am gonna go to last game on Saturday at BMO .. to cheer on our captain .. i think he should have retired 3-4 years ago but when he was in his prime he was AMAZING .. congrats to Bradley .. cheers
Nothing but love today. He was a key piece to our success when he got here. He was the general we needed and brought cohesion and professionalism which was much needed. Never took a night off. Congrats on retirement captain.
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Just watched TFC post their worst record in their history despite having one of the highest payrolls. Whoever put this team together should be fired immediately.
Insigne embarrassed himself with his lackadaisical play. Bernadeschi at least tried but he didn’t have a goal since the end of August. The rest of the team couldn’t beat my son’s house league team.
Bradley is a legend but he was just awful in the centre of the defence. Way too slow. Who decided to put him there? The new coach? This doesn’t bode well for the future.
Insigne embarrassed himself with his lackadaisical play. Bernadeschi at least tried but he didn’t have a goal since the end of August. The rest of the team couldn’t beat my son’s house league team.
Bradley is a legend but he was just awful in the centre of the defence. Way too slow. Who decided to put him there? The new coach? This doesn’t bode well for the future.
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The sad part is Manning will likely get to stay to the end of his contract.... basically 2 more years of him a the helm.
John Herdman has plenty of work to do in rebuilding fractured Toronto FC roster
TORONTO — Under John Herdman, the Canadian men's soccer team talked proudly — and often — of the brotherhood within the squad.
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TORONTO — Under John Herdman, the Canadian men's soccer team talked proudly — and often — of the brotherhood within the squad.
"We believe within our group," veteran midfielder Jonathan Osorio said on the eve of Canada's opening game against Belgium at the World Cup in Qatar. "With the quality that we have and our brotherhood we can go as far as we want to go.''
"We know it's going to take a lot of hard work, a lot of smart work all over the pitch," added veteran defender Steven Vitoria. "Our brotherhood's going to be tested. But we're excited for all of it.''
Fast forward 11 months and Herdman is now in charge of the worst team in Major League Soccer. Toronto FC closed out its worst-ever season with a 2-0 loss to visiting Orlando City SC on Saturday.
And while Toronto's club motto is "All for One," Herdman quickly learned he has inherited a fractured mess.
Osorio, who leads all Toronto players with 341 games played in all competitions, lifted the curtain on the team a little when asked whether there was a brotherhood this season at the MLS club.
"The truth is no," he said after the Orlando loss. "We didn't do a good job of all sticking together. There's reasons for that, many reasons for why that happened. But I think at some point it became too much. The group wasn't together. There wasn't brotherhood."
"John coming in now, he's working on that and, to be honest, in the last two weeks (under Herdman) the team seemed more together than in a long time after everything that has gone on this year. But yeah, there's a lot of work to do in that sense."
Captain Michael Bradley, who played his last game Saturday before retirement, hinted of the locker-room division when asked prior to the game about what went on behind the scenes this season.
"We were trying to take a club with really big expectations, take a group of players with a lot of different backgrounds and a lot of different experiences and a lot of different levels of motivation, ambition. And we were trying to make a team," he said.
"That's what it always is. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it works really well … in other moments, you don't have the right group. You don't have the right people."
Herdman says it will take three months to start ridding the team of the "arguments and the backbiting that's been going on ... so they actually want to work and play for each other."
"But we still need to add quality to this group. There's no doubting that," he added. "We need to add some quality in different positions."
Toronto (4-20-10) lost seven straight and won just one of its last 21 games (1-17-3) in finishing a season that set franchise-low records for wins (four), points (22) and wins on the road (zero). At 0-18-1, Toronto also was worst in the league when conceding the first goal of a game.
sabremike
SAVE OUR SABRES: PEGULA OUT!!!!!!!!
TMLeafer
Rest in Peace Johnny Bower
Lol, good for him, but makes me wonder what the father/son combo meant for the dynamics inside the TFC locker room.
Dude he has been like that for past 3 full seasons .. he was washed in 2020 .. when you can't run anymore da move is from holding midfield to central D .. team needs to full cleansing of all designated players and half rest of roster .. this will be a 5 year build back if we are lucky
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