But TFC got nothing out of it, with New York (2-2-0) taking the lead in the 32nd minute on a Frankie Ayama goal after teenager Caden Clark picked Mark Delgado s pocket. The 17-year-old Clark doubled the lead in the 69th minute when the Red Bulls carved open the TFC defence without much opposition.
Toronto coach Chris Armas is missing some key pieces, meaning the ones he has have to perform. That s not happening, with mistakes costing the team. In a league where the margins are thin, we have to be at our best. We have to carry our weight. We have to be up for it every single time, no matter what altitude, heat, short rest, whatever that is, said Armas.
HARRISON, N.J. - Seven games into the season and Toronto FC has won just once in all competitions (1-4-2), with defending MLS champion Columbus Crew SC up next.
TFC coach Armas returns to Red Bull Arena to face former team
For Toronto FC coach Chris Armas, Saturday s visit to face the New York Red Bulls represents a trip down Memory Lane and a chance to see his family.
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For Toronto FC coach Chris Armas, Saturday s visit to face the New York Red Bulls represents a trip down Memory Lane and a chance to see his family. First and foremost I get to see my wife and my children, said Armas, a father of two who served as Red Bulls head coach from July 2018 to September 2020 after being elevated from assistant coach. I haven t seen my children in three months or so. My wife came to Canada just for a short stretch there. That s probably the top of the list.
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Toronto FC coach Chris Armas talks with his players during a CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match against Mexico s Cruz Azul at Azteca stadium in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Fernando Llano May 07, 2021 - 10:09 AM
For Toronto FC coach Chris Armas, Saturday s visit to face the New York Red Bulls represents a trip down Memory Lane â and a chance to see his family. First and foremost I get to see my wife and my children, said Armas, a father of two who served as Red Bulls head coach from July 2018 to September 2020 after being elevated from assistant coach. I haven t seen my children in three months or so. My wife came to Canada just for a short stretch there. That s probably the top of the list.
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I hope Dietrich Mateschitz is watching this afternoon, and maybe even having one of his menacing henchmen take notes. Because his New York Red Bulls - the team he continues to saddle with a holistic development-focused strategy that bears only record-setting league titles - are facing one of Major League Soccer’s true model clubs.
According to the last full audit of MLS salaries at the end of 2019, the Chicago Fire were listed as the league’s third most expensive squad. The Fire ranked just between second-place LA Galaxy and fourth-place Los Angeles FC in the true measurement of commitment to winning in North American soccer, a measurement certainly not rendered reductive by the league’s rigid salary floor and the concentration of the highest spend