Hassli’s thumping volley allows Whitecaps to draw level with TFC 17 May 2012With the Vancouver Whitecaps down 1-0, the big Frenchman reached into his bag of magic tricks and pulled out one his finest efforts yet, hitting a powerful volley into the top right corner of Milos Kocic’s goal.
Nguyen’s statement game earns him MLS POTW honours 14 May 2012Lee Nguyen never got a chance to play a game for the Vancouver Whitecaps. And, on Monday, he was named MLS Player of the Week for showing up the Whitecaps.
TFC moves de Klerk from pitch, promotes Brennan 14 May 2012Toronto FC announced two promotions on Monday. Bob de Klerk will move away from the coaches’ bench and will be the new technical manager for the club, while Jim Brennan moves from coaching the Academy ranks to the senior squad.
Vukovic gets three more months to try and impress Impact 14 May 2012The Montreal Impact announced Monday that forward Stefan Vukovic will have three more months to try and impress the club.
Revenge is a dish best served cold: Nguyen haunts Whitecaps 13 May 2012After winning five consecutive matches in all competitions, the Vancouver Whitecaps fell to the New England Revolution 4-1 on Saturday, mainly thanks to Lee Nguyen, the twice-capped U.S. international attacking player the club waived following preseason.
Ricketts’s goalkeeping heroics against his former team allows Impact to draw Galaxy 13 May 2012“I think we actually did a pretty good job in the second half. Actually the whole game wasn’t too bad, the second half was great,” Landon Donovan offered. “I’m guessing that if it was any of a number of other goalkeepers playing for them today it would have been a different score and we would have won but Donovan did a good job and they held on. I think a few players thought they had him on a few plays but he made some good saves and got them a point.”
Whitecap Carlos Marquez named PDL’s Player of the Week 10 May 2012The league announced the honour on Thursday, nearly a week after Marquez set up Michael Boxall’s opening goal and then scored two of his own as the Whitecaps U-23 side beat the Kitsap Pumas 3-0 in their season opener.
Le Toux, Whitecaps, beat down FC Edmonton’s brave resistance 10 May 2012For 75 minutes of Wednesday’s second leg of the club’s Amway Canadian Championship final against the Vancouver Whitecaps, things looked good for FC Edmonton to be Cinderella at the BC Place ball.
10-man TFC eliminates listless Impact from the ACC 10 May 2012TFC scored its first victory of any sort at BMO Field this season, beating the Impact by a 2-0 score to send the Reds into the Voyageurs Cup final and handing Montreal another disappointing result in the national tournament.
Wondolowski named Player of the Week: Too early to talk about Lassiter’s record? 7 May 2012Wondolowski took over the MLS scoring lead this week, and now has 11 on the season. The reigning MLS Player of the Month easily took the vote from the membership of the North American Soccer Reporters.
