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Toronto - We got it!!!
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ForzaNerrazurri
Senior Squad
HAW! as soon as you say drink, a scotsman and an irishman posts! Brilliant 
I'm really excited about this stadium, finally we can see some quality football soon
I'm really excited about this stadium, finally we can see some quality football soon
see ya there... when I'm not studying 
Rochester Rhino
Manager
This could either be good or bad for Rochester getting an MLS team also. It could be bad bc they wont want to MLS teams close together, or it could be good bc they are clsoe so it would be a close rivalry like in the NASL days. We'll wait and see.
btw are stadium is preet much done, all they have to do is install the turf adn tehy are complete with Phase 1.
btw are stadium is preet much done, all they have to do is install the turf adn tehy are complete with Phase 1.
TheBlueBalla
Starting XI
what the hell? I like Coors, but I will never understand why Europeans opt to drink average American beers when they have much better stuff brewed in Ireland and it costs the sameSeán Denny said:
For example, Harp>>>>>>>>>Coors
oh, and congrats to toronto
JFG_Lancer
Senior Squad
Congrats Toronto 
I just hope that Milwaukee will get a team some day
I just hope that Milwaukee will get a team some day
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!
TORONTO MAPLE RAPTORS here we come!!!!!
EDIT- Guys! We Have to keep this team alive ourselves. It's up to the fans right now. It's going to be great. A Canadian team with fans from all over the world (Canadian/Hispanics, Canadian/Europeans, Canadian/Asians, Canadian/Africans etc). It'll be amazing! (and we actually know how to SING damn it! BIG difference from most MLS teams (except Chivas usa that is
)
Imagine being there and listening to songs from England/Argentina/Spain....aynwhere
"Dale dale dale TO(ronto) Dale dale dale TO <like Boca juniors>"
The other day Sports World said that this team would really attract MANY Canadian players playing in the states or in Europe.
Id like to see
1) Sutton (GK from Montreal.....hes awesome)
2) DeRosario (MVP of MLS)
3) KEvin Mackeena (ex hearts)
any ideas?
TORONTO MAPLE RAPTORS here we come!!!!!
EDIT- Guys! We Have to keep this team alive ourselves. It's up to the fans right now. It's going to be great. A Canadian team with fans from all over the world (Canadian/Hispanics, Canadian/Europeans, Canadian/Asians, Canadian/Africans etc). It'll be amazing! (and we actually know how to SING damn it! BIG difference from most MLS teams (except Chivas usa that is
)Imagine being there and listening to songs from England/Argentina/Spain....aynwhere
"Dale dale dale TO(ronto) Dale dale dale TO <like Boca juniors>"
The other day Sports World said that this team would really attract MANY Canadian players playing in the states or in Europe.
Id like to see
1) Sutton (GK from Montreal.....hes awesome)
2) DeRosario (MVP of MLS)
3) KEvin Mackeena (ex hearts)
any ideas?
FKPartizan
Reserve Team
JFG_Lancer said:Congrats Toronto
I just hope that Milwaukee will get a team some day
2007 is when Milwaukee will probably get a team, I was talking with Peter Wilt our former GM for the fire and he is leading the current project 90 miles north.
Limberopoulos21
Senior Squad
Bah, i wonder what we'll be called.
Hopeunited
Starting XI
This is good sh1T! I can't wait to experience some stadium football... after 5 years away from a real stadium.
I hope the team name will at least be half decent... something professional and European perhaps... better not be some queer animal like Toronto Beavers
I hope the team name will at least be half decent... something professional and European perhaps... better not be some queer animal like Toronto Beavers
ForzaNerrazurri
Senior Squad
We've been offered the 2009 Gold Cup and we are going after the 2011 Women's Cup
City leaps into unknown
By KEN FIDLIN, TORONTO SUN
During more than four hours of passionate debate, Kevan Pipe's body language was the only gauge anyone needed to judge the tone of the argument.
Pipe, the CEO of the Canadian Soccer Association, and arguably the individual with the most to lose if city council voted down a stadium deal that melds three levels of government with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., was living and dying on every word.
"It's been three years, one month and 28 days coming together, but who's counting," a much-relieved Pipe said just moments after city council voted 25-13 to kick in $9.8 in cash and land worth $10 million to build a 20,000-seat stadium that will be the centrepiece of the FIFA World Under-20 championship in 2007.
"The face of our sport in Canada has just changed in the last 15 minutes," said Pipe. "The Mayor was right when he said this is about vision-building. We're bringing the world to Toronto. A billion people will be watching on TV and thousands more will come to the city.
"And that's just the start. We've been offered the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup and we're going after the 2011 Women's World Cup."
There were times, though, through the lengthy debate that Pipe looked as if he might be in need of a tall building to jump off when the results were in.
While the project had the unflagging support of Mayor David Miller and his deputy Joe Pantalone, who had fast-tracked the project over the last two weeks, many councillors were bitterly opposed on a variety of levels.
Some objected to the public sector jumping into bed with MLSEL, very much a free-enterprise operation. For others, this hasty process comes to soon after the findings of the Bellamy report in the wake of the city hall computer scandal.
"This is so wrong," Scarboro-Agincourt councillor Mike DelGrande said. "It's so bad, that as a forensics auditor, I would have to question this deal. There's nothing in writing on anything.
"How come this project didn't go through a regular process? Is this open and transparent? How can you make it open and transparent by not allowing anyone else in to bid?"
Beyond that others, like Etobicoke's Rob Ford wondered how Toronto could even consider this project, given its fragile financial situation.
"This is a sucker stadium, not a soccer stadium," Ford said. "We are going to lose our shirts."
In addition to the city's $19.8 million commitment of money and land, the federal government has committed $27 million, and the Ontario government $8 million. MLSEL is in for $8 million and will market the naming rights for an anticipated $10 million.
Even though MLSEL, which will build and manage the stadium, has accepted responsibility for any construction over-runs and has agreed to share any profits and will swallow the first $250,000 of any operating losses, many in the room maintained a healthy dose of skepticism.
"This is a bad process that produced a bad deal for the city and its taxpayers," councillor Sylvia Watson said.
Many councillors favoured deferring the issue for more study but that effectively would have killed the deal. Major League Soccer conveniently had imposed a deadline for the end of the month on MLSEL's tentative agreement to get an expansion franchise. And FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, has been breathing down Pipe's neck for months now, worried that facilities were not going to be up to snuff for the world under-20 championship.
In the gallery, Pipe was confident at the start of the debate that the project already had enough committed votes. But as the day progressed, he sensed more opposition than he had expected.
"I've not experienced this before, so I didn't know what to think," he said. "You just never know how it's going to turn out."
And that's what haunted many of the councillors last evening. They don't know how it's going to turn out. Perhaps Howard Moscoe said it best.
"I'm leery about public-private projects which inevitably become public-pirate projects," he said.
City leaps into unknown
By KEN FIDLIN, TORONTO SUN
During more than four hours of passionate debate, Kevan Pipe's body language was the only gauge anyone needed to judge the tone of the argument.
Pipe, the CEO of the Canadian Soccer Association, and arguably the individual with the most to lose if city council voted down a stadium deal that melds three levels of government with Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., was living and dying on every word.
"It's been three years, one month and 28 days coming together, but who's counting," a much-relieved Pipe said just moments after city council voted 25-13 to kick in $9.8 in cash and land worth $10 million to build a 20,000-seat stadium that will be the centrepiece of the FIFA World Under-20 championship in 2007.
"The face of our sport in Canada has just changed in the last 15 minutes," said Pipe. "The Mayor was right when he said this is about vision-building. We're bringing the world to Toronto. A billion people will be watching on TV and thousands more will come to the city.
"And that's just the start. We've been offered the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup and we're going after the 2011 Women's World Cup."
There were times, though, through the lengthy debate that Pipe looked as if he might be in need of a tall building to jump off when the results were in.
While the project had the unflagging support of Mayor David Miller and his deputy Joe Pantalone, who had fast-tracked the project over the last two weeks, many councillors were bitterly opposed on a variety of levels.
Some objected to the public sector jumping into bed with MLSEL, very much a free-enterprise operation. For others, this hasty process comes to soon after the findings of the Bellamy report in the wake of the city hall computer scandal.
"This is so wrong," Scarboro-Agincourt councillor Mike DelGrande said. "It's so bad, that as a forensics auditor, I would have to question this deal. There's nothing in writing on anything.
"How come this project didn't go through a regular process? Is this open and transparent? How can you make it open and transparent by not allowing anyone else in to bid?"
Beyond that others, like Etobicoke's Rob Ford wondered how Toronto could even consider this project, given its fragile financial situation.
"This is a sucker stadium, not a soccer stadium," Ford said. "We are going to lose our shirts."
In addition to the city's $19.8 million commitment of money and land, the federal government has committed $27 million, and the Ontario government $8 million. MLSEL is in for $8 million and will market the naming rights for an anticipated $10 million.
Even though MLSEL, which will build and manage the stadium, has accepted responsibility for any construction over-runs and has agreed to share any profits and will swallow the first $250,000 of any operating losses, many in the room maintained a healthy dose of skepticism.
"This is a bad process that produced a bad deal for the city and its taxpayers," councillor Sylvia Watson said.
Many councillors favoured deferring the issue for more study but that effectively would have killed the deal. Major League Soccer conveniently had imposed a deadline for the end of the month on MLSEL's tentative agreement to get an expansion franchise. And FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, has been breathing down Pipe's neck for months now, worried that facilities were not going to be up to snuff for the world under-20 championship.
In the gallery, Pipe was confident at the start of the debate that the project already had enough committed votes. But as the day progressed, he sensed more opposition than he had expected.
"I've not experienced this before, so I didn't know what to think," he said. "You just never know how it's going to turn out."
And that's what haunted many of the councillors last evening. They don't know how it's going to turn out. Perhaps Howard Moscoe said it best.
"I'm leery about public-private projects which inevitably become public-pirate projects," he said.
Torontolynx
Youth Team
YEEEEAAAA!
I may check out a few games. And who knows, we may get some premiership friendlies as well...it's all good. Toronto United? Nah. Inter Toronto? Nah. Toronto City? Nah, too much like Manchester City. Toronto Forest? Nah, too corny.
I may check out a few games. And who knows, we may get some premiership friendlies as well...it's all good. Toronto United? Nah. Inter Toronto? Nah. Toronto City? Nah, too much like Manchester City. Toronto Forest? Nah, too corny.
Yuck. Nasty watery American beer. I'll take a Stella Artois or Upper Canada any day.