Exhausted TFC moves further into league cellar 8 Jul 2012Toronto FC looked worn out in a 3-0 road loss to the Philadelphia Union, Sunday afternoon. The Reds lost individual battle after individual battle, gave the ball away cheaply and the Union regularly got its attackers round back of the TFC defensive four.
Ottawa Fury wins division for, ahem, ninth season in a row 8 Jul 2012It’s not a surprise — but the heavily favoured Ottawa Fury’s women’s team captured its regular-season division title with a 1-0 win over the Toronto Lady Lynx on Saturday.
Smits’s saves, Porter’s goal get FCE road point in Puerto Rico 8 Jul 2012From the way the teams traded scoring chances, you wouldn’t believe that 0-0 draws were the results of the first two encounters this season between the clubs. Really, if this game would have finished 5-5, it would have been fair based on the quality scoring chances each team was able to carve out.
De Rosario, DeMerit highlight MLS First XI 8 Jul 2012This season’s MLS All-Star Game may hold more interest for Canadian soccer fans than any of these summer exhibtions have since the 2008 edition was played at BMO Field.
California snoozing: Whitecaps, Chivas go scoreless 8 Jul 2012Chivas is a team that struggles at home, and the Whitecaps are in the midst of a four-games-in-11-days stretch, so it would have taken a brave person to predict that Saturday’s 0-0 draw would be anything but dire.
Canadian U-20s lose one, draw one in Mexico 8 Jul 2012Canada’s U-20 men’s team salvaged a draw out of its two-game closed-door series in Mexico.
LDU Quito officially unveils Plata, on six-month loan from TFC 6 Jul 2012I want you to know that I am very happy to be back home, the team that opened the door, I am very happy to be in Quito,” Plata was quoted on LDU official website.
Edmonton’s Ricketts makes it three goals in two matches for Dynamo Dresden 6 Jul 2012The Edmonton native and Canadian national-team regular scored with a flying header in the second minute, as Dresden beat lower-league German side ZFC Meuselwitz 4-0 in a friendly on Friday. He also had another great chance to score in the ninth minute.
Impact continues to work off an entirely different sort of expansion-team model 6 Jul 2012Nesta was officially unveiled as an Impact player Friday, in a press conference that was aired live on RDS. But, without a working knowledge of the Italian language, the viewers would have to be happy to admire the legendary central defender in an Impact polo shirt, as he doesn’t speak English or French well enough to communicate to the Canadian media.
Wondolowski edges out TFC’s Koevermans as June Player of the Month 5 Jul 2012The San Jose Earthquakes forward, MVP candidate and the league’s leading scorer earned 10 first-place votes from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters, while Koevermans got six.
