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Whitecaps show character by getting three points in Red Bull Arena

By
Steven Sandor
– 06/02/2013

Kenny Miller

Kenny Miller

After losing the Canadian Championship final in heartbreaking fashion on Wednesday, it would have been easy for the Vancouver Whitecaps to have a stinker of a game Saturday in New Jersey.

Little time for rest, a long trip from the Pacific Coast to the Eastern time zone, and not enough time to shake off the emotional final minutes of Wednesday’s game — a game that saw the Montreal Impact find the saving goal it needed to snatch the Voyageurs’ Cup out of the Whitecaps’ waiting hands.

But, something funny happened at Red Bull Arena. The Whitecaps came up with some late magic — and won its first road game of the MLS season. A 2-1 triumph over the Red Bulls was more than just three points for Vancouver; it was a statement to the fans back in British Columbia that this team wasn’t going to roll over.

The game was played in hot, steamy conditions — tough sledding for a team that hadn’t got much training in between Wednesday’s Voyageurs’ Cup final and Saturday’s match three time zones away. But, after going down 1-0 early in the second half, the Whitecaps rose after Young-Pyo Lee came on as a sub for the injured Greg Klazura at right back.
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NYCFC announcement leaves more questions than answers — and that’s good for MLS

By
Steven Sandor
– 05/22/2013

MLS-logoMLS showed some media mastery in announcing the new New York City FC franchise Tuesday. By leaving us with as more questions than could possibly be answered in a conference call, the league has ensured that columnists and bloggers — even ones that don’t regularly cover soccer — will write the kind of speculative articles that every league PR person publicly berates but secretly loves.

That’s because these sort of speculative articles keep the new franchise in the hearts and minds of New Yorkers — and that’s important, because the new team will start play in 2015 in a temporary venue, while it searches for a home.

So many questions:

What will NYCFC mean for the Red Bulls? Commissioner Don Garber said he hoped it would stoke a fierce rivalry in a city of 19 million. But it’s not like NYCFC is coming in as an upstart, looking to knock off a team with lots of history and trophies. What NYCFC is competing with is a team that doesn’t sell out its soccer palace that you’ll find out on the train to Newark Airport, a team that’s name is a brand, a team that’s devoid of championships.
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Henry brace enough to top late Impact surge

By
Mike Wyman
– 05/09/2013

Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry

The Montreal Impact began its game with the New York Red Bulls tied with its opponents and a pair of other sides atop the MLS Eastern Conference standings. The Impact ended it in fourth, albeit with a number of games in hand, after dropping a 2-1 match that would have represented something more tangible than a moral victory if a few things had worked out differently.

Two of the three goals came in added time — one in the first half and another in the second — with Thierry Henry notching both the home side’s tallies while Marco Di Vaio got one (and very nearly two) back for the visitors.

Controlling the play in the early going, New York had the first chances but couldn’t find an opening in the Impact defence. Jonny Steele tried to find Henry with a cross in the 12th minute but couldn’t connect with the former Arsenal star. Henry had a more viable chance four minutes later but rolled his shot past the far post.

The Impact showed more confidence in the middle third of the opening half and had a few chances. Sanna Nyassi, who with a bit of luck could have put his side ahead, just missed connecting with a sliding Andrew Wenger in the 19th, his cross too high for the forward to redirect into the New York goal.
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Cahill named MLS POTW for breaking hearts at BMO Field

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/29/2013

Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill became just the latest in a long line of players who have broken the hearts of the fans at BMO Field with a late goal.

But the Australian’s two-goal performance, including an 89th-minute headed winner, earned him MLS Player of the Week honours. Cahill got the most first-place votes from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters.

The fact that Toronto FC coughs up points late in games has become sort of a cruel joke with the team’s long-suffering supporters. Cahill gave the New York Red Bulls a 1-0 lead over the Reds on Sunday with a left-footed finish that was set up by a wonderful dummy from Thierry Henry. But, Cahill had more to do — after Jonathan Osorio had drawn TFC level, the Aussie won the game late with a powerful header.
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Toronto FC’s late-game breakdowns: Now officially a template!

By
Mark Polishuk
– 04/27/2013

Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill

Toronto FC’s late-game breakdowns have officially reached the “macro on the word processor” stage. The Reds saw another (two points/point) slip away after the club suffered yet another heartbreaking (loss/draw) thanks to a late goal in a (INSERT SCORE HERE) (loss/draw) to (INSERT OPPONENT HERE) on Saturday (afternoon/evening) at BMO Field.

The answers to this week’s version of TFC fill-in-the-blanks: “one point,” “loss,” “2-1,” “loss,” “New York Red Bulls” and “afternoon.”

The Reds came into Saturday’s match on a string of four consecutive draws in league play, three of which were decided by a stoppage-time goal by the opposing team. New York didn’t have to wait until the extra time, with Tim Cahill finding the back of the net in the 89th minute to put his side up for good and to again leave TFC looking for answers.

“We need to really analyze where things are going wrong because we can’t just keep putting it up to ‘just another one, it’ll never happen again,’” captain Darren O’Dea said. “It’s happening, it happened through last year… It needs to be put right.”
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Ryan Johnson wins Player of the Week award: The 11 gives nod to former CSL keeper Clint Irwin

By
Steven Sandor
– 04/08/2013

Ryan Johnson

Ryan Johnson

For the second time in a row, someone named “Johnson” from the Portland Timbers has won the MLS Player of the Week award.

Last week, it was Canadian Will Johnson, who scored twice. This week, it’s former Toronto FC forward Ryan Johnson, who scored two second-half goals to give the Timbers a 2-0 win over the Houston Dynamo. Johnson got the most first-place votes out of the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters.

Johnson’s two-goal game was deemed to be more Player-of-the-Week worthy than the two-goal game of another ex-TFC striker, Maicon Santos. Read the rest of this entry »

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Agudelo is MLS POTW, but Bernier establishes himself as Player of the Month favourite

By
Steven Sandor
– 03/25/2013

Patrice Bernier: Getting lots of votes, week after week

Patrice Bernier: Getting lots of votes, week after week

Juan Agudelo was named the MLS Player of the Week Monday. The Chivas USA forward got 10 first-place votes out of the 28 ballots cast by the members of the North American Soccer Reporters.

Agudelo set up Edgar Mejia’s goal and scored on a lovely curler as the surprising Goats won 4-1 over the Fire, who can claim to be the league’s worst team through four weeks.

But, for Canadian soccer followers, the interesting story is who finished second. Montreal Impact midfielder got five first-place votes as his team shut down the New York Red Bulls 1-0 to keep its perfect start to the season alive.

This week, Bernier got five votes and finished second in POTW voting. Last week, he got seven votes and finished second. Three weeks ago, Bernier finished third in POTW voting. Every week, Bernier is getting votes, and they are coming from all across North America.
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Impact coach praises Canadian youngster Ouimette after win over Red Bulls

By
Mike Wyman
– 03/24/2013

Karl Ouimette

Karl Ouimette

Four wins in as many games was not what anyone had predicted for the Montreal Impact before the start of the 2013 schedule. But it is what the team has delivered, Saturday prevailing over the New York Red Bulls as Marco Di Vaio got the only goal in the 1-0 match at Olympic Stadium.

“I would have said maybe 3-1 or something like that,” said midfielder Patrice Bernier, possibly the team’s most consistent player so far this year, “But a perfect month? We have as many points as we had in 13 or 14 games last year. It’s going well, we’re solid defensively and Troy (Perkins) made some big saves today. It’s good for our confidence to be on top. We’re happy but we have to continue in the same vein as we have been.”

As it has in its other matches this season, the Impact got out to a lead in the first half and held it through the second to prevail and remain atop the MLS Eastern Conference with a perfect 12-point harvest.

The visiting side took the play to its hosts in the early minutes of the opening, half but had the tide turn against it as time ticked away. By the quarter-hour mark things were decidedly in favour of Montreal.
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Spectacular saves gives D.C. United’s Hamid POTW nod over Montreal’s Bernier

By
Steven Sandor
– 03/18/2013

Hamid_BillIt’s not often when a player from a 0-0 draw gets Player of the Week consideration, but D.C. United had no business getting out of New Jersey with a point.

DCU’s 0-0 draw with the Red Bulls Saturday really should have been a loss. Not a one- or two-goal defeat, either. A rout. But DCU keeper Bill Hamid made a series of spectacular saves and allowed his team to get some sort of result even though its performance was flatter than the prairie.

For his heroics, Hamid got the nod from the North American Soccer Reporters; he is the MLS Player of the Week. Hamid got 16 out of 28 first-place votes to take the award.

Despite Hamid’s success, it is clear Impact-mania has gripped the membership. Montreal midfielder Patrice Bernier got seven first-place and seven second-place votes, while forward Marco Di Vaio got one first and six second-place votes. Read the rest of this entry »

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Football fashionistas: We rate the new MLS kits

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/28/2013

impact_thirdFRONT(FORMATTED)Judging from the readership numbers — which spike every time we put up a story about new kits, redesigned kits, anything to do with kits — we’ve surmised that, to be a Canadian soccer fan, you have to be a bit of a fashionista.

If someone could create a tour of soccer stadiums and fashion weeks around the world, it’s be a smashing business.

But kits are important to fans. They want to be proud to wear the club’s colours. They want the road kits to be sharp. And marketers love it, because soccer kits change seasonally. Adidas gives us new MLS kits at almost the same pace as Marc Jacobs introduces new fashion lines.

With MLS creating a “Jersey Week,” where many MLS teams  revealed or will reveal their new kits at special events or, as they are known outside of the sports world, “fashion shows,” we thought it would be fun to play Vogue. That is, give you a one-stop look at the new kits, with our, ahem, expert commentary. With all three Canadian teams putting their new kits out there, we thought it would be fun to look at the best, the worst, the exciting and the boring of what’s already out there.

Just as a disclaimer — The 11‘s editor HAS judged fashion shows before. Seriously.

We’ll start with the Canadian teams:
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