So, we have started that time of the season that every player loves!!! PRE-SEASON. You can ask every soccer player this and they will tell you that pre-season is a nightmare. And if you have not looked after yourself during off season, you will definitely be feeling the effect during your 1st week of training and maybe more. Now being as this is my 19th pre-season camp, i actually know what your body is going to go through. So as you get older and wiser , you know what your body needs and how to look after it more. We are very lucky at TFC as i think we have the best fitness coach in the business. He has got us working very hard from the start of day 1, but always with a purpose and meaning. This means we are not running around fields & tracks for long periods with no soccer balls. Our work has been tough and intense for different periods of times with all the intention being of match type situations. The boys are knuckling down as well and putting in the effort assisted by the ever encouraging coaching staff. After a few days training in Toronto we flew down to sunny Florida where we are currently situated in Bradenton. The weather has been hot, which makes the work-outs that little bit harder. But its what we need as we prepare for the up and coming season.

*1st GAME*  TORONTO FC  VS USA U20’s

We played our very 1st game of pre-season against the very impressive US U20 team yesterday. It was a scorching hot day and being as we had a morning practice and then played Vs the very athletic US team, i thought the lads put in a good shift. We played 3 halves of 30 minute periods with the players split up into them periods. Some guys played longer than others as we had Tyrone & Amado away on international duty and a few minor injuries in the squad. We had some trialists in as well with one of them ‘Mike McGlinchey’ from Celtic scoring a great back post header. ‘Darren Kenton’ who i have played against a few times in England played in defence and ‘Gregory Richardson’ from Guyana played up front with me in the final period. The last trialist is a guy called ‘Pablo Salinas’ from Bolivia who played wide right. Chad got the 1st goal with great determination in closing down the goalkeeper and slipping it into the empty net. All in all it was a good workout for the boys who are feeling it today and trying to get some rest in before our next game against Chicago on tuesday.

I will be trying to do a blog everyday while we are on pre-season camp, so keep posted. Thanks Danny