2014. Plan in effect.

Jeez man has it been a week? Not like there hasn't been anything going on. TFC is deep into it and ready for RSL in the Carolina Cup. Good to see that TFC picked up the streams of those matches, and finally get a glimpse of Serioux, De Rosario & Co. Even with all things MLS quickly approaching, we can't forget about our national program.

It's good to see the women still going strong and finishing high in Cyprus. The move to bring in Carolina Morace looks good thus far. May 25th - BMO Field against Japan we can all see this first hand. But per usual the focus here is going to be our stellar men's program!

It's been a while since our boy De Guzman unleashed his vocal rant about the CSA and their epic failures. It's also been super quiet on the CMNT front, which is not good. The one thing we don't need from this program is inactivity. I haven't forgotten the inspiring document titled "Wellness to the World Cup - 2014". 2009 is really starting to shape up. It looks like De Guzman was right to lament, and people's skepticism (ok well mine for sure) afterwards of the CSA's comments assuring us everything is coming together (possible other matches). Our friendly against the mighty Cyprus is the ONLY pre-gold cup friendly scheduled. Why you might ask? BUDGET RESTRAINTS. Amazing. I can't help but compare with the other clubs in CONCACAF, specifically the U.S., who have already played Sweden and are in the Confederations Cup with Brazil, Italy and Egypt. Wow. I wonder, did we get a 2 for 1 or something because of the Cyprus Cup? "Hey come here for a women's tourney and we'll throw in a friendly against the men's FIFA #98!"

Actually I shouldn't be making fun, although the CSA website sees fit to make front page news of how we "are holding 8th spot in CONCACAF" (among 10 teams), Canada has dropped down to 94 in the world rankings. I wonder if the CSA will continue to pretend as though nobody notices these failures, will De Guzman continue to speak out (I hope so) and who is going to play for this team in the Gold Cup this summer? I cannot imagine our best players will be motivated to perform in an international tournament with virtually no real game preparation and with the same coach who lead them to pretty much absolute last place in World Cup Qualifying not even one year ago.



2009 hold so much promise for TFC, it's already been above and beyond for Montreal, Vancouver could be awarded a team in MLS and the women seem to have made good moves. Yet here we are (ok here I am) in March with nothing on the Men's team other than slipping in the world rankings and a friendly against a tiny island nation. I guess this is a strategic move on behalf of the CSA to get us some wins because as recent history has shown, tiny island nations are our best chances at victory these days!!