Impact takes major gamble with signing of Rivas 3 Oct 2011 Defender Nelson Rivas, announced Monday as the first Designated Player in the Montreal Impact’s history, is definitely anything but a sure thing.
No new Canadian prospects invited to Impact’s evaluation camp 3 Oct 2011 The Montreal Impact announced that three players from its NASL roster won’t be part of the team’s pre-MLS evaluation camp. And none of the six new players the Impact have invited to the camp carry Canadian passports.
Come to Pappa: Guatemalan star named MLS Player of the Week 3 Oct 2011 Marco Pappa is Major League Soccer’s Player of the Week. The Chicago Fire midfielder scored a hat trick in a midweek win over Real Salt Lake. He earned the award after the votes from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters were counted.
Amir Lowery set to begin trial for chance to remain in Montreal 3 Oct 2011 He’s going into the week with an optimistic outlook. Despite the Impact’s disappointing finish in its final D-2 season Lowery feels he’s shown enough to warrant serious consideration.
Whitecaps’ offence stagnates in B.C. Place opener 2 Oct 2011 The Whitecaps could not have had a worse opponent scheduled for the MLS opening of B.C. Place than the Portland Timbers. The Timbers not only, ahem. blessed the new Bell Pitch at B.C. Place with a 1-0 win in front of sold-out throng of 21,000, the Whitecaps’ Cascadia rivals had the chance to display just how wide the competitive gap is between the two teams that jumped from second division to MLS in 2011.
Henry’s late goal officially eliminates TFC from playoff picture 2 Oct 2011 In a season where Toronto FC has frittered away over a dozen points due to late-game breakdowns and failures to defend set pieces, it's perhaps fitting that both demons combined at once in the game that officially eliminated the Reds from the postseason hunt. Thierry Henry's 88th-minute equalizer off of a corner kick left TFC with just one point in a 1-1 draw with the New York Red Bulls on Saturday at BMO Field.
FC Edmonton outgunned, outclassed in playoff shocker 2 Oct 2011 The Eddies were routed 5-0 by the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in their NASL quarterfinal, as FC Edmonton’s season came crashing down around its ears.