Ageless Sebrango named NASL Offensive Player of the Week 16 Aug 2011 Eduardo Sebrango may have a 38-year-old body, but he’s playing like he’s 10 years younger. The Montreal Impact forward, who came out of retirement earlier this season to help the club reverse its stuttering fortunes, was named the NASL’s Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.
Setanta ensures that Toronto FC’s CCL match will be seen live 15 Aug 2011 Setanta Sports, which is part of the Rogers’ family of channels, announced Monday that will air Toronto FC’s CONCACAF Champions League group stage match live at 8 p.m. on Thursday.
Seven games left… can the Impact catch FC Edmonton? 15 Aug 2011 While it’s still improbable that the Impact will overhaul FC Edmonton for the last playoff spot, FCE’s recent struggles have made the race a lot more interesting than it needed to be.
Impact crushes Atlanta, gains on FC Edmonton 15 Aug 2011 With his team's final NASL season circling the drain, Impact coach Nick De Santis put out a line-up that some may have felt was randomly drawn from a hat, but one that paid dividends as the Montreal side ran roughshod over the last-place Atlanta Silverbacks, taking a 4-0 decision in front of some 11,000 delighted fans.
Defensive mixup costs FC Edmonton two precious points 15 Aug 2011 The good news? FC Edmonton’s five-game losing streak is over. The bad news? The Eddies gave up a sloppy late goal and threw two points away, being forced to settle for a 1-1 draw with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers Sunday at Foote Field.
D.C. United dominates Player of the Week voting, again 15 Aug 2011 For the third week in a row, a member of D.C. United is the MLS Player of the Week. Chris Pontius got the award this week, after his teammate — Canadian national-teamer Dwayne De Rosario — took the award over the last two weeks. Pontius was the top vote-getter in balloting from the North American Soccer Reporters.
Soehn endures an unhappy return as DeRo and D.C. United crush the Whitecaps 14 Aug 2011 Vancouver coach Tom Soehn’s return to D.C. certainly didn’t go as he would have liked. Chris Pontius scored twice for D.C. United and rookie Joe Willis saved the day in goal, as the Whitecaps fell 4-0 at RFK Stadium.
Toronto FC changes its formation, surprises Real Salt Lake 14 Aug 2011 All the changes worked for the best as Joao Plata's 77th-minute strike gave TFC a 1-0 victory over RSL. The win snapped a six-game (0-4-2) winless streak in league play for Toronto and suddenly the Reds find themselves on a five-game unbeaten streak (3-0-2) in all competitions.
FC Edmonton experiments with switcheroo on defence 12 Aug 2011 As the Eddies prepared for Sunday’s home date with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Antonio Rago, who has been the team’s starting right back throughout the season, was lined up on the left side in practice. Meanwhile, Eddy Sidra, who got his first start of the season last week in the left back slot, was on his preferred right side.
PEI native Gyorio caps FCTB’s rally in draw with Impact 11 Aug 2011 Coming into tonight’s game against FC Tampa Bay — needing to make up a point a game on the sixth-place Fort Lauderdale over the course of the season’s last nine games in order to take part in the postseason — the Montreal Impact tonight snatched a draw from the jaws of victory, as the visiting FC Tampa Bay came back from a two-goal deficit at the 84-minute mark to end the night in a 3-3 draw.