[URBAN NOTE] Toronto FC, anyone?
Aug. 17th, 2009 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldOver at his blog Noel Maurer has an entertaining overview of the recent men's World Cup qualifier for the Mexican and American soccer teams, with Gancho Blog providing more perspectives and a thoughtful discussion in Noel's comments about how one should react to foreigners who wear the Confederate flag without knowing what it means.
All this makes me think. Toronto has its own Major League Soccer team, Toronto FC, but I know nothing about it other than what I've heard from some big soccer fans at work. It's not too far away from me, the Portuguese-Canadian fanbase is certainly something I've become familiar with (in a way) after five years in their neighbourhoods, and soccer culture seems to be pretty darn fun, minus the riots and Italian fans trying to revive the Red Brigades. Maybe I should go, and soon.
Thoughts? Advice?
All this makes me think. Toronto has its own Major League Soccer team, Toronto FC, but I know nothing about it other than what I've heard from some big soccer fans at work. It's not too far away from me, the Portuguese-Canadian fanbase is certainly something I've become familiar with (in a way) after five years in their neighbourhoods, and soccer culture seems to be pretty darn fun, minus the riots and Italian fans trying to revive the Red Brigades. Maybe I should go, and soon.
Thoughts? Advice?
