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Toronto FC announced Friday that the club has ended the loan agreement with Tottenham Hotspur F.C. for midfielder John Bostock. He has now been placed on waivers.

Bostock, 21, joined Toronto FC on loan on March 8. He made nine combined appearances for the club in league and Amway Canadian Championship play.
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The Vancouver Whitecaps say that there is no plan to field a NWSL team in 2014.

SI’s Grant Wahl Tweeted April 14 that the Caps and Toronto were both actively involved in talks to bring professional women’s soccer to Canada next season.
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Rachel Quon makes me uncomfortable.

I’m sure she’s a wonderful young woman, smart and athletic. I’m also fairly certain that she’s sincere in her desire to give the Canadian national team the old college try.

I have nothing against Quon personally. I barely knew who she was a week ago, actually.

I did know one thing, however.

Rachel Quon is American.

She was born in the United States, grew up in the United States and went to college in the United States. She even represented the United States internationally as a member of the U-20 (and below) youth teams.

This young woman is the walking, talking and kicking personification of apple pie.

Well, except she’s now gone all maple syrup.
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In deference to a request earlier today via Twitter from CSN head honcho Ben Rycroft regarding the usage of the phrase "blooding the pups", I will endeavour to find different terminology to describe the men's national team's approach to its roster for next Tuesday's friendly in Edmonton against Costa Rica.

So... draining the dogs? Carving the kittens? Plasma-depriving the pandas?

However you want to describe it, suffice to that once-again-interim head coach Colin Miller will not be helming what could in any sense be called a Canadian "A-team" on this occasion.

The 18-man roster is as follows...
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The Ottawa Fury's head coach in its inaugural NASL season tells CSN about why he accepted the capital city club's offer to leave Brazil, what he learned from his two-year stay in the land of samba and what his squad could look like less than a year away from its official launch.

How and when Ottawa did approach you?

Marc Dos Santos (MDS): They got in touch with me during my time in Brazil and we started ...

Two topics this week: a 16-minute interview with Ottawa Fury's new NASL head coach, Canada's Marc Dos Santos, returning from a two-year stay in Brazil. Also we talk NYC FC with our American colleague Jonathan Tannenwald.

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The 2014 NASL expansion team Ottawa Fury FC has confirmed on Thursday the hiring of former Montreal Impact bench boss Marc Dos Santos as their head coach for their inaugural season.
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It's been billed as "The Rematch".

That's a bit of a misnomer, of course; Canada and the USA have met in women's soccer dozens and dozens of times. They played three times in 2012 alone. But the friendly at BMO Field on June 2 has special significance. It's the (long-overdue) homecoming for the Olympic bronze medallists, and ostensibly a chance for revenge after the controversy of the semifinal showdown in London.

And even though both sides will sport some familiar faces (the quasi-retired Melissa Tancredi is back for the first time since the Games), there will be a somewhat-unexpected injection of youth into the Canadian squad.

"The blend (of youth and experience) is very similar to what I've been working with over the last eight, nine games for Canada," head coach John Herdman said Wednesday. "We're working with the players that we think, potentially, will be there in 2015."
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That’s Toronto FC’s form over the last 25 games. I’ll save you the math. It’s 11 points, or 0.44 points per game. Over a 34 game MLS schedule it’s on pace for 15 points.

A 15-point season in a 34 game schedule would be the worst season in MLS history. The 1999 MetroStars had 15-points in 32 games, which is the current low water mark in MLS history.

It’s bleak. We all know it’s bleak. Everyone knows it’s terribly bleak.

But, it’s still shocking to see in print. ONE win in 25. Absurd.
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It's just about time for the kinda-sorta "rematch"!

USA women's national team head coach Tom Sermanni has released the roster of 21 players who'll travel to Toronto for training ahead of the friendly on June 2 -- of which 18 will make the game day roster.

And while 11 of the 14 players who took part in last summer's epic Olympic semifinal will be part of that squad -- including Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Brett Lawrie's ex-girlfriend -- there will be some very notable exceptions, including Hope Solo (injury) and Megan Rapinoe (club commitments).

Still, this is an American squad that comes into town with a whole lot of depth and a ridiculously one-sided all-time record against Canada (44 wins in 52 matches) -- so any thoughts of Canada being on a clear path to an upset should be immediately put aside.
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An extension to Canadian Soccer News’ MLS Week in Review, this article provides a closer look at the performances of the Canadian players who saw the pitch this week.

Kyle Porter and Will Johnson claim the top two spots this week, while the third will be left unmanned, rather than shoehorning in some undeserving soul.

That’s not to belittle the contributions of the other candidates, more a recognition that none did anything to particularly distinguish themselves from the pack this week.

Find out what Porter and Johnson did to deserve recognition, as well as who else earned their keep this week. ...

It's official. As we wrote about earlier, Manchester City has partnered with MLS and, surprisingly, the New York Yankees to buy the 20th league team. The club is to be called New York City FC.

The move completes Don Garber's long-time dream of adding a second team in the New York market. He reiterated how important a second New York area team was for the league's long-term plans. "This was part of our original business plan in 1996," Garber said.

Pointing to the early days of the Chivas v Galaxy rivalry, Garber said that he envisioned all of MLS, including the Red Bulls, to draw strength from NYCFC.

"We will work (with the Red Bulls) to make sure the rivalry will be very valuable and exciting to all," Garber added.
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