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Vancouver earns a gritty victory over FC Dallas

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Martin MacMahon
– 04/22/2012

Camilo: Goal in the 11th minute

It wasn’t pretty, but the Vancouver Whitecaps scrapped out a 1-0 win over FC Dallas in front of 18,027 fans at BC Place Saturday night, to claim their first win since March 17.

Camilo, the club’s 2011 Player of the Year, was the difference maker, scoring a cracking left-footed goal in the 11th minute to give the ‘Caps their third win of the season.

It was the Brazilian’s first start of April, after battling a quadriceps issue which had restricted him to two substitute appearances in the three matches since his injury.

“I have chances – today I had one chance before [the goal],” Camilo told The 11 following the match, referencing a good chance he had just four minutes in. “After, Lee [Young-Pyo] gave me the pass, and I dribbled and scored. This is good for us.”
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Montreal can’t hold lead in the Lone Star State

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Mike Wyman
– 04/15/2012

Blas Perez

Going into Saturday’s match in Frisco, Tex., FC Dallas had yet to lose a game at home this season while the Montreal Impact was still in search of its first point on the road.

At the conclusion of play, the situation remained unchanged as the host club came out on the popular end of a 2-1 match.

Yesterday, Impact gaffer Jesse Marsch identified Dallas as an offensive force despite the absence of injured star midfielder David Ferreira, saying that the key to Impact success rested on countering the opponents’ still-dangerous attack. While Montreal accomplished this in the first half and took a lead early in the second, it was unable to hold onto it, once again falling to late-game markers that left the Impact disappointed at the final whistle.
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Canadian Edson Edward joins the Puerto Rico Islanders

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Steven Sandor
– 04/05/2012

Edson Edward

There will be Canadian content on NASL’s Caribbean club this season.

The Puerto Rico Islanders have confirmed that they have inked Ottawa native Edson Edward to a deal. The Ottawa Fury, Edward’s old PDL club, also announced that its alumnus is off to the NASL.

Edward becomes the second Ottawa Fury alum to join NASL this season, as Kenny Caceros, who last played for Capital City FC of the CSL, joined FC Edmonton for the 2012 campaign.
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New refereeing set-up won’t affect Canadian quota for MLS matches

By
Steven Sandor
– 03/07/2012

Major League Soccer’s new refereeing structure will not limit opportunities for Canadian officials.

Nelson Rodriguez, MLS Executive Vice President of Competition, said in a conference call on Wednesday that the formation of the new Professional Referee Organization will not affect the officiating agreement MLS has in place with the Canadian Soccer Association.

The CSA confirmed the agreement stipulates that the percentage of MLS games officiated by Canadians is based on the number of games played in Canada. With Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto all in the league this season, with 17 homes dates each, 51 regular-season MLS games will be played on Canadian soil.

But, that doesn’t mean Canadians have to do matches in Canada and USSF referees only do games in America. For example, USSF ref Baldomero Toledo can do a game at BMO Field, while CSA official David Gantar can do a game in San Jose. The key is that Canadian officials have to be called to do a number of MLS games that reflects the amount of total MLS games played in Canada.

The fact that the Montreal Impact is now on the league schedule has actually created more opportunities for Canadian refs in MLS this season.
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The 11′s super-duper MLS 2012 season preview

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Steven Sandor
– 03/07/2012

The 11’s Steven Sandor, Mark Polishuk and Aman Dhanoa held a virtual round table, discussing how they foresaw the 2012 MLS season.

Will the Galaxy repeat? Will any of the three Canadian teams make the playoffs? Who will be the MVP?

We tallied up our votes, and came up with our list of how the teams will finish, who will win MLS Cup and who will be the league’s MVP. No need to play the season, now. We have it all figured out.
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Silva continues to raise the hopes of Toronto FC fans

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Steven Sandor
– 03/02/2012

Luis Silva

They are an obligatory part of the sportswriter’s existence. Cliched, and they come around every year.

The story about the rookie who has looked good in preseason/training camp and is destined to be an impact player once the season starts. A player’s potential is overstated and unfair expectations are placed upon him. Just how out-of-proportion the story will get blown usually depends on just how bad the team in question was the season before.

So, based on the performance Toronto FC first-round draft pick Luis Silva has enjoyed during the preseason, the columns about how he can be an opening-day starter for this team will come fast and furious.

Silva scored twice Thursday as Toronto FC beat FC Dallas 3-0 at the preseason Disney World Soccer Classic. With the win, TFC wins its group and will meet the Vancouver Whitecaps in the final.
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Impact loses preseason match to Dynamo; striker Braun leaves game

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Steven Sandor
– 02/08/2012

Justin Braun

The Montreal Impact has already lost one player to an injury suffered in a preseason match. Impact fans are hoping that the number doesn’t rise to two.

The lowlight of the Montreal Impact’s 2-0 preseason loss to the Houston Dynamo Wednesday wasn’t either of the goals surrendered or the fact the Impact fluffed its lines in front of the opposition goal.

The big worry is striker Justin Braun had to be helped off the field after being brought down by a tackle from Dynamo trialist Oscar Resio. Since the match was only covered through Twitter, it’s hard to judge how mean-spirited the challenge was.

Colombian defender Nelson Rivas, who was one of the Impact’s high-profile signings of the off-season, hasn’t played since coming up lame in the first half of the Jan. 26 friendly in Mexico against Club Atlas. He’s out with an injured thigh.
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Whitecaps make six available, deal Salinas: Jazic top Canadian available in re-entry draft

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Steven Sandor
– 11/30/2011

Ante Jazic: Regular starter for Canada, but made available by Chivas USA.

Wednesday, all MLS teams submitted their lists of the players who will be made available for the second-ever re-entry draft, to be held Monday.

The Whitecaps had six on the list; Toronto FC had defender Danleigh Borman; and the Impact had two, despite having yet to play an MLS game (more on that later).

But, the reality for most of the players put on the waiver draft list is that they won’t be playing in MLS next season. Many need to start thinking about rebuilding themselves in NASL or another comparable league.

Last year, only two players were selected in the first round of the re-entry draft. Aaron Hohlbein didn’t play an MLS game this season; he went back to NASL. And Joseph Ngwenya played 16 games for D.C. United. Ironically, Ngwenya is back in the re-entry draft process this year, as the option year on his contract was declined. In the first round, players can’t take pay cuts, so teams have to accept the options of the players’ old deals or come up with comparable salary numbers. Players chosen in the second round have to give the clubs that select them exclusive negotiating windows, but bets are off in terms of how deals must be structured.
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TFC acquires Cup-tied Jeremy Hall to bolster defence

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Steven Sandor
– 11/29/2011

Jeremy Hall

Toronto FC made a deal Tuesday, acquiring defender Jeremy Hall from FC Dallas in exhange for the Reds’ second-round pick in the 2013 SuperDraft.

Hall was a 2009 first-round draft pick of the New York Red Bulls, but has yet to establish himself as a regular MLS starter. In 2011, he started the season with the Portland Timbers and finished it with FC Dallas — and amassed 21 games played between the two clubs.

Hall is quick and could provide some needed depth to the TFC backline, which has to be technical director and coach Aron Winter’s top priority in this offseason.

Hall won’t be eligible to play in the remainder of TFC’s CONCACAF Champions League schedule; he played for FC Dallas in the 3-0 loss at home to the Reds that saw the Hoops crash out of the tournament.
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Toronto FC waives seven players, Whitecaps lose three

By
Steven Sandor
– 11/23/2011

While some advance notes of these moves have escaped through Twitter, MLS has now confirmed that Toronto FC has waived seven, count ‘em, seven players.

That list included Dutch forward Javier Martina and Canadian Gianluca Zavarise.

Martina scored twice in TFC’s home opener against Portland, then quickly faded into irrelevance, following the likes of Laurent Robert and Collin Samuel, players with European experience who got off to fast starts with TFC but then went on to produce very little.
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