25 Stories That Made MLS - 13. Northward Bound to Toronto

13. Northward Bound to Toronto

01/23/20 • 34 min

How MLS expanded into Canada for the first time, stepping into MLS 2.0 for the first time. The brothers also talk about the long windy road that made the circumstances right for Toronto FC to join the league.
Sources:

“A nice little job to learn stuff by” By Duncan Fletcher for SB Nation: https://www.wakingthered.com/2013/9/9/4705472/tfc-a-nice-little-job-for-anselmi-to-learn-stuff-by-richard-peddie-tom-anselmi-mlse

Maple Leaf Owners Through The Ages by Jeremy Sandler for the National Post: https://archive.ph/20140320041448/http://sports.nationalpost.com/2010/12/01/maple-leafs-owners-through-the-ages/

Ali Passed Big Test In First Visit by Stephen Brunt for The Globe And Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/ali-passed-big-test-on-first-visit/article757264/

Toronto Soccer Stadium Approves Soccer Stadium Deal for CBC Sports:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/toronto-city-council-approves-soccer-stadium-deal-1.536727

Maple Leaf Owners Through The Ages by Jeremy Sandler for the National Post: https://archive.ph/20140320041448/http://sports.nationalpost.com/2010/12/01/maple-leafs-owners-through-the-ages/

Ali Passed Big Test In First Visit by Stephen Brunt for The Globe And Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/ali-passed-big-test-on-first-visit/article757264/

Toronto Soccer Stadium Approves Soccer Stadium Deal for CBC Sports:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/toronto-city-council-approves-soccer-stadium-deal-1.536727

Previous Episode

12. Do You Know The Way To San Jose

How the business plan and strategy that saved the league also came with a bad side: the relocation of a storied franchise. Luckily it works out in the long run for the San Jose Earthquakes.
Sources:

What now for Columbus? Learning From the Earthquakes Relocation And Retrun by Scott French for Four Four Two

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/us/features/what-now-columbus-crew-history-san-jose-earthquakes-relocation-houston-return

Earthquakes Look At Houston by Graham Jones for LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-16-sp-mls16-story.html

Houston a Contender To Land MLS Team by Chris Duncan for Associated Press

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602099.html

A Closer Look At Tim Lieweke by Robert McLoed For the Globe and Mail

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/a-closer-look-at-tim-leiweke/article11590800/

Moving Toward a United State by Graham Jones for LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-14-sp-leiweke14-story.html

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