Toronto FC

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c/o Maple Leaf Sports
& Entertainment
40 Bay Street Continuation 400
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The Toronto FC is a club frankness from Football (soccer) based with Toronto with the Canada (in the province of the Ontario).

History

2006 : the Toronto FC becomes the 13th team of the Major League Soccer. Its name and its logo were officially revealed on May 11th. The club is the property of Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment , which also has the Toronto Maple Leafs (LNH) and the Toronto Raptors (NBA). The team will evolve/move with bmo Field, a stage of 20.000 places. Work was finished in 2007, date on which the Toronto FC one makes their beginnings in the North-American championship.

on August 25th, 2006, the Scottish Mo Johnston is named at the post of trainer.

on April 7th, 2007, the Toronto FC played its first official match in the Major League Soccer and it was a defeat by the mark of 2-0 against C.D. Chivas the USA.

on April 28th, 2007, the Toronto FC played its first home match and it was a defeat by the mark of 1-0 against the Kansas City Wizards.

on May 12th, 2007, Danny Dichio registered the first goal of the history of the club. And the Toronto FC gained its 1st match of the season (victory 3-1 against Chicago).

Year results per year

Manpower 2007

Guards

1 Greg Sutton Canada
18 Srdjan Djekanovic Canada
David Monsalve Canada

Defenders

29 Chick Attakora-Gyan Canada
2 Andrew Boyens
3 Adam Braz Canada
11 Jim Brennan Canada
27 Gabe Official reception Canada
8 Kevin Goldthwaite the United States
28 Stephen Lumley Canada
13 Chris Pozniak Canada
4 Marco Reda Canada
16 Marvell Wynne the United States

Medium grounds

23 Miguel Canizalez Canada
6 Maurice Edu the United States
15 David Guzman Canada
24 Tyler Hemming Canada
14 Joey Mello Canada
5 Ronnie O' Brien Ireland
33 Carl Robinson Wales
7 Andey Welsh

Assailing

12 Edson Buddle the United States
93 Jeff Cunningham the United States
9 Danny Dichio England
25 Abbot Ibrahim Togo
20 Andrea Lombardo Canada

The medium ground Jim Brennan was the first player recruited by Toronto. Originating in Ontario, Brennan had evolved/moved the former seasons within various English teams. Its arrival with the club was announced on September 8th, 2006.

November 17th took place the fishing out of expansion ( expansion draft ) which made it possible the TFC to call upon 10 players resulting from the other trainings of Major League Soccer. However, several of them in the following weeks yielded or were exchanged to other teams.

Other players were then recruited, either coming from the North-American leagues (MLS and USL), or coming from Europe.

External bonds

Official site of the club

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