Like Baby Deer Learning To Walk

A blog for all things Canada Soccer, mostly the Men's National Team, who look a bit like baby deer learning to walk when they play internationally.

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How is this a real bracket that really exists. How is Canada in the semifinals. I'm still riding the high of Friday's match.

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I KEEP FORGETTING I HAVE THIS BLOG BUT CANMNT JUST ADVANCED TO THE QUARTERFINALS OF COPA AMERICA. LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOO.

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I started this blog years ago when the Canadian Men's National Team was so hilariously bad it was cute watching them try to compete in CONCACAF.

In the last year and a bit I got to watch them lose only one match in the entire World Cup qualification round and then dominate the Octagon to finish on top of the group.

Today I watched them play their first World Cup match of my conscious life.

It's been a bit of a day.

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“Oh Canada at the @FIFAWorldCup 🇨🇦 What a moment. #WeCAN”

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GAME DAY!!!

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I'm so sorry if you're still following this blog thinking I was gonna make serious posts about sports, turns out I'm just captain of the Alex Bono Defense Squad and also the Chones ship.

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Should I revive this blog as a Chones stan account or nah

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My mans Alex Bono saved a penalty from Bastian Schweinsteiger yesterday and I was LIVING.

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I just wanted to preserve drunk!Jozy in all possible formats.

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I have nowhere else to put these thoughts and what I really should have done was turn this into a TFC blog before TFC got, like, alarmingly good, but here we are.

They’re on to the CCL final, and while I’m still not 100% convinced they can knock out a third straight Liga MX team who’s not gonna take them seriously, I believe they believe they can, and that’s what matters.

It’s gonna be scrappy, it might get ugly, they’re probably gonna come home with a bunch more injuries which isn’t good for anyone, but hopefully they’ll be bringing a cup home with them.

Then we can focus on the league again and maybe like... get out of last place and shit.

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Hello yes this blog is still alive can we just say that the crowd at TFC's home opener singing the Canadian anthem with zero accompaniment on Saturday was a thing of beauty?

(I mean starting the season 2-0-0 is also a thing of beauty but this is TFC so I don't really expect that to last you know? Just let me have this)

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Joe Bendik's tweet about Darren O'Dea's departure.

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The thing that makes Toronto FC interesting to watch still is that somehow they make you hope

Like this time they won't fuck it up

There's only a minute left, they can't possibly fuck it up

They're up by two goals, I know shit's been bad, but they can't let two late goals in!

But then suddenly they're tripping over their own feet and kicking weak-ass passes and just having no fucking clue where each other even are to pass to and 

Jesus christ no one is even there why are you passing there 

and

No human being can run that fast why are you passing it so hard 

and

No no fucking no you're going the wrong way you son of a bitch 

And then suddenly it's tied and you're like

HOW DID THAT HAPPEN AGAIN YOU DICKWADS WHY DO I EVEN WATCH YOU

Like it's actually statistically impossible for them to have conceded so many late goals and that's fascinating.

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Who Decided Watching Soccer in 6 Degree Weather Was A Good Idea?

I'm just home from the Toronto FC X FC Dallas match and I'm SO COLD. It was nice in the supporters' end until the sun went away and then it was AWFUL.

The stadium started clearing out around the 75th minute, as it tends to when there's so little time left and Toronto is down 2:0. Last season, it would've been the end. This season, however, we're apparently a whole different team who can score 2 goals in the last 5 minutes with almost no trouble and we clawed back a point from the first place team in the west.

It was all in all a very exciting game with some questionable calls from the ref, but even that couldn't hold Toronto back forever.

Goals for Toronto were scored by Justin Braun in the 85th minute (after replacing John Bostock in the 73rd) and Darel Russell in the 90th.

Justin Braun also picked up a late yellow in stoppage time, so it was a rather eventful game for him.

Toronto is away to Philadelphia next week; hopefully they can turn this new art of drawing they have into a win!

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Just a straightforward match report for Toronto FC vs Sporting KC.

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Toronto FC unveiled their new home jersey for the 2013 season today.

It'll see action at the Home Opener March 9th at the Rogers Centre, for which tickets are still available. And if you order the jersey from Real Sports you'll get tickets to the game!

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To quote a friend of mine from Facebook:

Frings is the kind of DP you want. He earned every penny of his cheque taking on any task he was assigned and giving his all. He will be most surely missed and leaves a massive gap to fill in the centre of our mid-field. Best of luck to him...and US!!!

Thanks for everything, Torsten.

Now if only you'd been able to stick around long enough for BMO Field to introduce a Harveys-style fries/onion rings combo in your honour.