NASL adds franchises in Jacksonville and Oklahoma City… but teams still needed in MT and PT zones 25 Jul 2013 The Board of Governors met with four groups, and approved the Jacksonville and OKC bids. Both teams will join the league in 2015. NASL spokesman Michael Preston said that the league won’t identify the other two cities that had bids in, but they didn’t receive flat-out rejections. See them more as being at the beginning of NASL courtship.
Miller finding the search for loan possibilities is very tough going; Adur to arrive in FCE camp 25 Jul 2013 Right now, FC Edmonton has midfielders David Zaharija and Dominic Oppong for the week. On Friday, Anthony Adur (also known as Anthony Bahadur), a former Maccabi Haifa youth team forward who has also played in Singapore and Thailand, will join the Eddies on trial.
TFC signs Spanish midfielder Alvaro Rey 25 Jul 2013 Spanish midfielder Alvaro Rey had been on trial with Toronto FC in June. Now, with international slots and cap space cleared thanks to a series of recent roster culls, Rey has officially joined the Reds.
Four Canadians named to the W-League all-star squad 24 Jul 2013 With nearly 40 per cent of the team’s spots taken by Canadians, the W-League’s all-star selections certainly have a good-news feel to them.
Haworth’s hat trick powers Fury towards PDL Conference Championship series 24 Jul 2013 It’s hard to imagine Haworth doing any more to impress NASL squad coach Marc Dos Santos than he did in the PDL Northeast Division championship game.
The 401 split: Impact gets its DP, while TFC fans wait and wait and wait… 23 Jul 2013 That’s not to blame Payne for the Forlan mess. The sexy DP is a key part of the strategy of Maple Leaf Sports and President Tim Leiweke, who is quickly finding that selling star players on the notion of coming to a last-place team in Canada isn’t quite as easy as selling them on the rock-star lifestyle of Los Angeles. Let’s face it, Cherry Beach ain’t the Santa Monica Pier.
FCE camp: July break came just as Fordyce was heating up, Oppong in camp, Knight return delayed 23 Jul 2013 “It was just as I was starting to get going,” said Fordyce of the break. “When you get in a good routine, you don’t want it to end. But, for the three of us (Fordyce, Robert Garrett and captain Albert Watson, who all came to FCE from Belfast’s Linfield FC), it’s the first break we’ve had in a year. It was June of last year that we started training camp, went six to eight weeks, then the start of the season."
Experiment underway to paint over the football lines at Edmonton’s Clarke Stadium 23 Jul 2013 But, the reviews from FC Edmonton’s coach Colin Miller and the players weren’t all that positive. A day after the paint was applied to the test patch, the turf had matted down and become very hard — and sticky, too.
By the numbers: Putting TFC’s BMO Field winless streak in perspective 22 Jul 2013 So, how does this compare to other home winless droughts? In other leagues? In other team sports?
Rolfe’s two-goal performance earns him MLS Player of the Week nod 22 Jul 2013 On Monday, Chris Rolfe became just the second non-Whitecap to win the MLS Player of the Week award over the last six weeks.