If Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad didn’t flick a Dean Ashton shot off the side of his face into the back of the net my prediction would’ve been spot on. However the final score finished 3-2 in favor of the MLS team and did not fail to entertain a soldout BMO field in Toronto.
Blanco won the MVP and deservedly so. Creating the first goal with a beautiful back heel and scoring the second on a nifty cutback in the box. You can see the world class goal HERE.
Toronto fans are nuts. They unsurprisingly rained West Ham as they took cornerkicks with a myriad of streamers. What also didn’t surprise me was that they also threw streamers the MLS players such as David Beckham as they took corners. What did surprise me, however, was that during a halftime interview of MLS commisioner Don Garber they proceeded to pelt streamers at the Don, Julie Foudy, and Rob Stone.
ESPN announcer Rob Stone picked up one of the streamers, threw it back, and hit a guy right in the face! He exclaimed after he threw it something like ‘I nailed him right in the head! take that you Canadian piece of shit!’ OK, not quite, but he did hit the guy.
In another halftime interview with former NBA MVP and proud Canadian Steve Nash, He revealed he was fronting the effort to add another Canadian MLS team in the city of Vancouver by 2011. Steve Nash is a classy guy and a classy athlete. I could not hope for someone better to help promote MLS growth and success. Vancouver has a solid USL team and all the neccessary foundations to be a successful MLS franchise and can hopefully emulate the success of Toronto FC.
Overall a very entertaining match. Chalk up another win for MLS against foreign competition. Here are the highlights:
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July 25, 2008 at 1:16 pm
As a phoenix resident, I am totally bitter that Nash is working on a team for Vancouver instead of the city that passionately supports him. I understand he is Canadian, but he’s making his money here.