" Started from the bottom now we here " - Toronto FC

            TFC? A good team this year? The fans excited again? Major signings? A soccer team to be proud of in the city of Toronto? This cannot be!! Oh, my friends, but it is. If you haven’t heard, then you must be living under a rock… or maybe you’re just too caught up in the NFL playoffs. Either way, you can hear it from me first… Toronto FC is making a splash in MLS this year. As most of you may have probably guessed, Toronto FC was not one of the teams that Torontonians would brag about necessarily. And lets be honest here, at this exact moment in time, Toronto FC is the worst soccer team in all of MLS. But, ladies and gentlemen, the world of soccer in the city of Toronto is changing.

            Tim Leiweke, currently the president and CEO of MLSE (Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment) made some moves that the history of MLS will never forget. Leiweke changed the face of Toronto FC, making signings that are currently the biggest signings in all of MLS. These signings mark a new era for the soccer fans in Toronto. In a matter of days, Toronto FC went from being the laughing stock of all Toronto sports, and all of the MLS, to biggest player transfer in Major League Soccer.

            “Started from the bottom now we here” – Drake, never made so much sense.

            With the resigning of Dwayne De Rosario and the signing of Brazilian striker Gilberto comes two more signings that literally makes Toronto FC fans go insane. These two signings include Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe, and AS Roma midfielder Michael Bradley.

            With these additions to the Toronto FC squad means many more possibilities for the city of Toronto.  With the likes of younger players already on the squad including Jonathan Osorio means the team can actually compete in MLS. Defoe is a goal scorer, something that TFC is in dire need of. Defoe is the sort of credibility that TFC needs. He is the type of player that can make the players around him better as well.

            Sure, there are going to be those negative, cynical, pessimistic people who will claim that this hype about TFC is just like the hype of the Blue Jays last season. That TFC is going to pull the infamous “Blue Jays” and will fall in the standings, and essentially nothing will change. But as for right now, the fans should be excited about the future of the franchise. They should be excited about watching the team unfold, and mold into an elite squad. And when you really think about it, these moves are not only important for TFC itself, but as well as all of Major League Soccer. The hopes for this season from all of us TFC fans are that we can watch our team play with pride. We can hope that for the first time in our 7-year franchise history, we can watch our team make the playoffs.

            For the first time in a long time I’m proud to say that I’m a Toronto FC fan. Our time is almost here TFC fans…