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Toronto FC To Host Benfica,Villa??

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CarlosDanger

Starting XI
Actually, the problem is not MLSE, it's Benfica.

I was speaking to the president of the supporters group yesterday, and apparently even the MLSE guys were shocked at how much $$ the European sides want to come and play a friendly.

And Benfica and AV are less expensive than the big boys, so don't expect to see ManU, Liverpool, Barca or Madrid in Toronto for a while.

Before we start to go on about MLSE's deep pockets etc. the soccer budget is what it is, so that won't affect the rest of operations at the moment.
 
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Run DMB

MVP
Considering that all 14,500 season ticket holders get to go to these games, they can only sell an additional 5,500 tickets. Small amount of seats available = high demand = opportunity to charge preposterously high prices.

And, as CarlosDanger pointed out, there may be a necessity to charge preposterously high prices in order to cover expenses.
 
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Rayzor127

Youth Team
CarlosDanger;2323783 said:
Actually, the problem is not MLSE, it's Benfica.

I was speaking to the president of the supporters group yesterday, and apparently even the MLSE guys were shocked at how much $$ the European sides want to come and play a friendly.

And Benfica and AV are less expensive than the big boys, so don't expect to see ManU, Liverpool, Barca or Madrid in Toronto for a while.

Before we start to go on about MLSE's deep pockets etc. the soccer budget is what it is, so that won't affect the rest of operations at the moment.
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I'd have to agree. I saw Benfica less than 10 years ago. They didn't bring all of the stars and played in my high school stadium in East Providence, Rhode Island. It was only $25 but still overpriced for a small general admission stadium holding less than 5k people. But it was still good to see them live at least once in my lifetime.

Peace.
 
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MaestroZidane

YELLOW CARD: Untrustworthy
I agree, that is by far one of the best avatar I've seen haha :D


Back to the topic. Here in L.A, If you want to see chelsea this summer, they are making you buy a pack of three for three events. They start at around 140. I guess is not that bad, but to make someone have to buy tickets for three games is just :(
 
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a_skates

Youth Team
MaestroZidane;2327580 said:
I agree, that is by far one of the best avatar I've seen haha :D


Back to the topic. Here in L.A, If you want to see chelsea this summer, they are making you buy a pack of three for three events. They start at around 140. I guess is not that bad, but to make someone have to buy tickets for three games is just :(
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Thats what MLSE is doing with Beckhams first visit to Toronto, you cant buy individual tickets, you have to buy a pack of 2-3 games.
 
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REDSCOUSER

Club Supporter
Having watched all of the TO FC matches so far I have to say the support has been marvellous. The sings, chanting & intimidation is like playing in Div 2 game in England. Superb.
 
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CarlosDanger

Starting XI
REDSCOUSER;2327662 said:
Having watched all of the TO FC matches so far I have to say the support has been marvellous. The sings, chanting & intimidation is like playing in Div 2 game in England. Superb.
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Thanks :brow:
 
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::shinji::

Min
Benfica's bringing a team that's almost entirely made up of reserves and bench players, kinda takes a bit of interest away from the game for me personally. Although Rui Costa and Miccoli will be there!
 
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a_skates

Youth Team
Heres the squad that is making the trip

Moreira, Pedro Correia, Anderson, Léo, Rui Costa, Miguelito, Paulo Jorge, Beto, Manu, Nelson, David Luiz, Miccoli, Moretto, Sami, Miguel Rosa, Miguel Vítor e Romeu Ribeiro.

no quim or morretto no petit, the greeks, no nuno gomes, simao, and mantorras
 
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::shinji::

Min
naww, I'm in Ottawa right now for work :(

...and may I add, I hate the city of Ottawa. Besides a couple blocks downtown where the Parliament buildings and the embassies are, the rest of the city is crap. Ottawa must have the highest number of street urchins per capita of any city in Canada.
 
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Avalanche

Senior Squad
::shinji::;2330938 said:
Ottawa must have the highest number of street urchins per capita of any city in Canada.
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They're only there to pressure the government to give out more welfare cash, but you probably knew that already. ;)

But seriously, even though I am a fan of both Benfica and Aston Villa, if I were in the GTA, I would have bought tickets only to the Villa match, mainly because there would be a larger likelihood of most of the first team squad playing. I'm not saying that we'd end up seeing the entire first XI, but I'm sure that when Villa come to town in July, there would be more value for money. As for Benfica, they're probably there for a bit of sightseeing, and maybe some cheap duty-free booze and smokes.
 
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