Eckersley, Iro, Marosevic, 35,000 fans and a training camp

Daily guff | Monday 23 January 2012 by

You spend one weekend away from the hurricane that is the Toronto FC news making machine and return to find all sorts of little stories to read about as the season draws closer by the day. From the great news that defender come midfielder Richard Eckersley is on the verge of leaving English side Burnley and signing on a full-time basis for TFC to the fantastic news that the CCL quarter final game at the Sky Dome against LA has now sold more than 35,000 tickets. Fears of large collections of empty seats are subsiding by the day it would appear as the club have even taken the step of releasing an extra 1,000 tickets.

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Trying to keep Plata and Eckersley

Daily guff | Thursday 1 December 2011 by

I hope the man with the longest title in football – our club director of player development – Paul Mariner is right when he says he is “forever the optimist” and that he’s “confident that we can sign them,” with them being fan favourites Joao Plata and Richard Eckersley. Both are on loan from their respective clubs in Ecuador and England.

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