Toronto FC is the name of the newest MLS team [Archive]

jak914

11-05-2006, 05:38 PM

I like the logo. Very nice and it is a good thing they didnt choose Inter Toront. Just like how Real Salt Lake. Just sounds like they steal the name from other bigger clubs. More original names are better. But Toronto FC is fine with me. Should be interesting to see what kind of talent they come up with for next season.

ELLADA

11-05-2006, 06:00 PM

I agree, the name is simple, as is the logo. Good stuff. I just might even start liking something about Toronto. :)

soxfan17

11-05-2006, 11:06 PM

Dont really like that theres another red team. But i really like the logo.

Buff_K

12-05-2006, 01:26 AM

http://www.mlsnet.com/images/2006/05/11/FzMF8GiO.jpg

cool whats their home stadium? I used to live in Guelph a year or so ago, wish they were in the MLS then

funkdoctorspock

12-05-2006, 01:40 AM

Just bought club membership 20 mins ago...

they're building a 20 000 seat stadium on the exhibition grounds (cne grounds) rendering for the stadium looks good... pretty excited to get tix for the u20 fifa wc tourney... :D

AgainstSteve

12-05-2006, 05:26 AM

for once the safe choice is definitely the best one, kudos to MLSE for picking a choice which does not favour or alienate any ethnic group

let's just hope they can be more Toronto Rock than Toronto Maple Leafs (MLSE can produce a winner when they make an effort)

i cant wait for next summer

Real JamesO

12-05-2006, 05:40 AM

Is there going to be an expansion draft? Has this been released, yet?

indomitable_lion

12-05-2006, 06:32 AM

Just in time for relegation to come stateside :D

Badboy29

12-05-2006, 07:49 AM

I'm loving that logo, simple and perfect. I'm surprised it's doesn't have blue in it though. The name is great to, would of been really stupid if they picked Inter Toronto... eeewwwww. Toronto F.C. is fine, but F.C. Toronto would sound better... mehhh it's all good.

This is one Toronto team i'll be proud to cheer on for, no matter the out come. I hate those loser leafs :p

AloneSoul

12-05-2006, 04:34 PM

joekidd

15-05-2006, 06:19 AM

I can't wait till next summer. I think I'll buy the season tickets and I hope we can get good crowds every week.

Haqq

21-05-2006, 10:35 PM

What advantages do you get with membership?

AloneSoul

21-05-2006, 11:01 PM

I can't wait till next summer. I think I'll buy the season tickets and I hope we can get good crowds every week.

I don't really care about the crowd, I go to the stadium to enjoy the game, no matter how many people showed up.

AloneSoul

21-05-2006, 11:02 PM

What advantages do you get with membership?

Your $50 deposit makes you a Club Member and you receive:

* First Access to the BEST Season Tickets for Toronto FC BEFORE the general public
* $50 against your Season Ticket Purchase
* First Access to 2007 FIFA U20 World Cup ticket packages BEFORE the general public
* Special Club Member prices on Toronto FC tickets
* Advance window / discounts to:
o International games
o Friendly games
o Canadian National Team games
* Advance access and discounts on team merchandise
* Free access to all games of the Toronto FC Reserve team
* 4 issues annually of our team magazine "Free Kick"
* Access to exclusive Members-only team related events and parties

narduch

21-05-2006, 11:02 PM

What advantages do you get with membership?

http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/MLS/t280/tickets/

Your $50 deposit makes you a Club Member and you receive:

* First Access to the BEST Season Tickets for Toronto FC BEFORE the general public
* $50 against your Season Ticket Purchase
* First Access to 2007 FIFA U20 World Cup ticket packages BEFORE the general public
* Special Club Member prices on Toronto FC tickets
* Advance window / discounts to:
o International games
o Friendly games
o Canadian National Team games
* Advance access and discounts on team merchandise
* Free access to all games of the Toronto FC Reserve team
* 4 issues annually of our team magazine "Free Kick"
* Access to exclusive Members-only team related events and parties

ELLADA

21-05-2006, 11:14 PM

lol, you guys are surfing at the same time! I love it! Toronto is pumped! That is a great offer!

Redstar

22-05-2006, 02:46 AM

yay alrite finally a pro team here in canada.
FC Toronto is a pretty good name,
but canadians call the sport soccer, i guess we can finally call it the name it is all around the world : football now.

funkdoctorspock

24-08-2006, 11:31 PM

The new coach of Toronto FC is going to be named tomorrow. This was sent to me this afternoon...

Welcome to the Club! We are so excited about the upcoming season and we are looking forward to getting to know you. As we continue to develop and establish this franchise, we will have news to share and we want to share it with you first. Tomorrow we will be making an exciting announcement, as we're set to unveil the team's new head coach at a press conference at Scallywags at Yonge and St. Clair.

As a Toronto FC Club Member, we would like to extend a special invitation to you to come down and meet the new head coach of Toronto FC. Please feel free to drop by anytime between 12:30 - 1:30pm. We'll be on the third level on the patio.

I hope you can make it!

Sincerely,

Paul Beirne
Director, Business Operations, Toronto FC

PS - Please note that Scallywags is located at 11 St. Clair Ave

loconet

25-08-2006, 12:21 AM

^^

I got the same e-mail. Although it was already announced via this espn article:

Toronto hires Johnston as head coach

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=376689&cc=5901

oceanic

25-08-2006, 11:12 AM

Is this Toronto in Canada or USA? If canada how comes its a MLS team? I thought the MLS was just US teams.

And what is scallywags mentioned in that letter?

Splatypus

25-08-2006, 11:57 AM

Is this Toronto in Canada or USA? If canada how comes its a MLS team? I thought the MLS was just US teams.

And what is scallywags mentioned in that letter?

It's in Canada

Of the major sporting leagues in North america only the NFL does not have any Canadian franchises.

Scallywags is a bar

ELLADA

25-08-2006, 05:45 PM

There are also the New Zealand Knights that play in the A-League (Australia).

tsteling

25-08-2006, 05:53 PM

Good for you guys. Stadium project looks really impressive.
I was searching on http://www.worldstadiums.com/north_america/countries/canada/ontario.shtml to find what soccer stadiums do you have in Toronto. After FC Toronto start in MLS it will be really exciting season for you. But how does it look today??

Splatypus

25-08-2006, 05:57 PM

But how does it look today??

How does the new stadium look today? see the video I posted last weekend.

v/T4a658dHIIk

tsteling

25-08-2006, 06:00 PM

How does the new stadium look today? see the video I posted last weekend.
No, I mean football season in Toronto.

The stadium, which will seat 20,000 fans, also will be a new major home of the Canadian National Teams.
If it is the truth you will be really lucky, watching Mondial qualifications in your city.

Edit. Thanx for the movie, now I know more even about new coach. I remember him playing during Italia90.

Splatypus

25-08-2006, 06:05 PM

No, I mean football season in Toronto.
The Toronto Lynx (http://www.lynxsoccer.com) of the USL play in at Centennial Park Stadium in Toronto. There are a few pics here (http://www.lynxsoccer.com/photogal/lynxphoto.htm)

The womens team (Lady Lynx) of the W-League also play there.

tsteling

25-08-2006, 06:22 PM

The Toronto Lynx (http://www.lynxsoccer.com) of the USL play in at Centennial Park Stadium in Toronto. There are a few pics here (http://www.lynxsoccer.com/photogal/lynxphoto.htm)

The womens team (Lady Lynx) or the W-League also play there.

Centennial Park is built in 1975 and capacity is only 3500. Quite small. I would support Lady Lynx. Especially when I can see this number 10:) Canadian National Team star, Amanda Cicchini. I always play with 10. I hope She deserves :)
http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/7724/amandacib0.jpg
Good for you.

jr!

26-08-2006, 04:09 AM

anybody else notice how many women wear Copa Mundial's??
I play in a co-ed rec league & a lot of the more skilled women (of which there are more than a few, believe me it's an eye opener getting deked out by a woman, it's happened to me a million times) wear them. I wonder why that is.

IncredibleLE

26-08-2006, 05:37 AM

is toronto fc going to sport kits by adidas like every other mls club? have they released a kit?

sirmax858

26-08-2006, 07:41 AM

is toronto fc going to sport kits by adidas like every other mls club? have they released a kit?

MLS has a deal with Adidas so im a hondred percent sure they will have addidas as well. But I am kind of anxious too see what the kits looks like.

oceanic

26-08-2006, 12:15 PM

It's in Canada

Of the major sporting leagues in North america only the NFL does not have any Canadian franchises.

Scallywags is a bar

This seems weird, what do you mean by franchise? Find it hard to wrap my head around this.

Doesn't the US FA and the Canadian FA have problems with having teams in two different countries in the same league?

narduch

26-08-2006, 02:27 PM

This seems weird, what do you mean by franchise? Find it hard to wrap my head around this.

Doesn't the US FA and the Canadian FA have problems with having teams in two different countries in the same league?

The precedent has already been sent numerous times. The NASL had many Canadian teams in a mostly American league. Currently, the USL (a division below the MLS) has 3 Canadian teams and about 9 American teams.

This also happens all over the world. A New Zealand team plays in the Australian A-League. A Liechtenstien team (Vaduz) plays in the Swiss leagues. A Welsh team (Cardiff) plays in England.

As long as both FAs agree, I don't see why there would be any problems.

AloneSoul

26-08-2006, 02:39 PM

Canada doesn't have the

1) Infrastructure (stadiums, appropriate administration and so on)
2) public interest (hockey being #1, no one wants to invest in football)

to have our own league

Splatypus

26-08-2006, 02:42 PM

to have our own league

Tried twice, both failed.

I still have some ticket stubs from the 1st season of the CPL in 87 :)

AloneSoul

26-08-2006, 03:03 PM

Tried twice, both failed.

I still have some ticket stubs from the 1st season of the CPL in 87 :)

look at CPSL and Lynx in USL now... they are dying, if not dead already.

couple of years after I moved to Canada I started missing football, so I went to the stadium to watch Lynx. I was patient enough to see about 5-7 games. Here is what scared me away:

- cheerleaders (wtf ?)
- every 5 minutes "Pizza-Pizza, buy a slice just for 3 bucks", the fucking guy was yelling so loud I couldn't hear myself talking.
- little kids at the stadium and their retarded parents
- not only they could never win at home, they played like shit

then about 2 years ago I decided to watch a CPSL game. I still go to the stadium every week to see North York Astros(I'll call them NYA from here) play. For some reason, even though CPSL is considered a lower league than USL, NYA being usually at the bottom of the table plays better football than Lynx. It is more entertaining, more organized, it's mostly young guys but it seems like they are more motivated to play, they are still doing it for fun while Lynx players and a coach don't seem to care that their team finished last every year as long as they get their paycheck. But lets get back to problems in CPSL.

- about 50 people attend the game
- the stadium has nice metal benches to sit on ;)
- the announcer is yelling in the microphone like a retard
- it costs 8$ (wtf ???)

CPSL and Lynx are only alive because they are plugged in into a life support machine and looks like MLS coming to Toronto next year is going to finally unplug them.

tsteling

26-08-2006, 05:20 PM

Here is what scared me away:
- cheerleaders (wtf ?)
- every 5 minutes "Pizza-Pizza, buy a slice just for 3 bucks", the fucking guy was yelling so loud I couldn't hear myself talking.
- little kids at the stadium and their retarded parents
- not only they could never win at home, they played like shit

But lets get back to problems in CPSL.

- about 50 people attend the game
- the stadium has nice metal benches to sit on ;)
- the announcer is yelling in the microphone like a retard
- it costs 8$ (wtf ???)

This is really frustraiting indeed. If I saw 50 people on the stadium I would probably never come back. They are the families I guess ?!
It reminds me some comedy - few supporters and drunk commentator. Toronto football society needs real football.

oceanic

26-08-2006, 07:48 PM

The precedent has already been sent numerous times. The NASL had many Canadian teams in a mostly American league. Currently, the USL (a division below the MLS) has 3 Canadian teams and about 9 American teams.

This also happens all over the world. A New Zealand team plays in the Australian A-League. A Liechtenstien team (Vaduz) plays in the Swiss leagues. A Welsh team (Cardiff) plays in England.

As long as both FAs agree, I don't see why there would be any problems.

It kind of seems funny that a new zealand team can win the A-League (australian legue) :p maybe they should have called it somehting else

lions67

26-08-2006, 10:05 PM

splatty, you said CPL?...... dont think i ever heard of the CPL before. you sure you didn't mean the CSL?... winnipeg fury. remember them?

Splatypus

26-08-2006, 10:09 PM

splatty, you said CPL?...... dont think i ever heard of the CPL before. you sure you didn't mean the CSL?... winnipeg fury. remember them?

Yes, typo

We were the National Capital Pioneers for the 1st year before moving becoming the Intrepid.

A teammate used to have a Winnipeg Fury ball when I was a kid.

karmaf1

26-08-2006, 10:18 PM

splatty, you said CPL?...... dont think i ever heard of the CPL before. you sure you didn't mean the CSL?... winnipeg fury. remember them?

CMON! Everyone knows about http://www.thecpl.com

lions67

26-08-2006, 10:22 PM

CMON! Everyone knows about http://www.thecpl.com

pretty cool site!
tell me, is fifa in this league of yours too?.or better yet, WE9?

CanadianRef

27-08-2006, 04:40 AM

i'm excited about mo johnston being coach... he also already seems to have a few tricks up his sleeve already if you heard the press conference

Splatypus

27-08-2006, 04:42 AM

f you heard the press conference

I assume everone did..? I't's on the pvr if missed.

narduch

27-08-2006, 02:32 PM

i'm excited about mo johnston being coach... he also already seems to have a few tricks up his sleeve already if you heard the press conference

It looks like Jim Brennan will be on the team. There are also rumors that Patrice Bernier is homesick, and could be on the team.

These would be pretty decent national team-quality players for TFC to get if possible.

CanadianRef

27-08-2006, 07:31 PM

I assume everone did..? I't's on the pvr if missed.

lol i wasn't sure what the coverage was like, i was actually there in person @ skallywag's

IncredibleLE

27-08-2006, 09:41 PM

sorry if this is off-topic, but can someone explain wh the mls teams don't have sponsors on their kits? is it that all the clubs share the same sponsors through mls or does mls not allow it?

jr!

31-08-2006, 01:20 PM

BMO bought the naming rights to the stadium, there's an article in today's Star here: http://tinyurl.com/lwhen

funkdoctorspock

30-09-2006, 02:54 AM

so I got the season tix email... pricing is interesting...

http://toronto.fc.mlsnet.com/pdf/t280/2006/seating_chart.pdf

looking at getting the red seating... 960 per seat/season... will wait till a representative tells me about club seating... can't see what would justify paying an extra 640 for...

man, those supporters seats are going to be crazy... I am predicting a lot of drunken partying is going to occur over on that side... :D