746 people witness the Impact's inability to find the net

A raucous crowd of 746 in Minnesota yesterday, witnessed how totally inept the Gulls actually are at doing the one thing that will bring you to victory. Scoring a goal. Obviously a change is needed, what that change is could be one of many things. If I knew exactly what to do, well, I would probably be sitting in Nick De Santis's chair instead of writing this blog post.

So I'll throw out a few ideas:

- Sign Ali Gerba. He's a hometown boy and has definitely shown he can score at this level as evidenced by his 17 goals in 32 appearances with the legendary Toronto Lynx in 2004-2005. The question is, does he want to play here? Not likely, seeing as we are stuck in D2 until 2012. He will most probably be waiting to see what kind of offers he can get from Europe when the transfer window opens up on July 15th.

- Sign ???. Scout out another striker that could be available at the transfer date. The only problem with that strategy is that talented forwards don't usually want to play on a 2nd division team in Canada and receive the kind of pay that goes along with that.

- Change formations to try and make the most of what we have. We did score 14 goals in 6 playoff games last year, with many of those coming off the feet of Byers, Brown and Sebrango so obviously there is some scoring ability up front.

Has Sebrango really slowed down that much? Is Brown resentful and unmotivated because some of his teammates have shunned him for his bonehead move in the NCC vs TFC? Has Byers.....?

For the Impact to lose against a rag-tag team that was put together in 3 weeks is unacceptable.

Thoughts? Ideas?

New Whitecaps MLS Kits

This will be their primary jersey:



Secondary jersey:

I personally really like them, especially the navy blue one. Seeing as they moved away from the royal blue, we won't be seeing 2 teams with the same colors in next year's Voyageurs cup. I'm hopeful the Impact will bring in a less cartoonish logo and follow suit with a sharp and simple looking kit for 2012.

1986..A look back.

The first and only time Canada ever qualified for the World Cup.



Allez les rouges!! 2014.

A friendly Wednesday

So, the Impact is set to take the field against European giant AC Milan tonight in a "friendly" match at Olympic Stadium. I have never been a fan of friendly/meaningless games. Sure they can be "fun" and you get to see big names and what not, but they attract a certain kind of "spectator/fan" that I find extremely annoying and arrogant. Lets call them the "one-of-my-grand-parents-was-born-in-Italy-and-I-can't-even-speak-Italian-yet-I-will-go-to-the-stadium-and-cheer-against-my-local-team" crowd (You can pretty much replace Italy with whatever country is involved with the game).

Obviously, some of the people who will be there cheering for AC Milan are genuine fans of the squad and may have been following the team for years. I've got no problem with them. It is with that second category of "fans (as I pointed out in the first paragraph)" that smugness and stupid comments will come from, to which eye-rolling will be the only proper response. They will show up with their freshly bought AC Milan jerseys and their snarky sense of superiority and make comments like:

"The Impacts really suck!! Were gonna kill them like 9-0 bro!" (Notice how they will refer to AC Milan as "we")

"My cousin said his garage league team could beat the Impact"

"Oh shit! Look up there, I didn't even know they had fans, haha heh"

Those type of game watchers and bandwagoners are a standard at pretty much every international match or friendly played in Canada involving a Canadian team. The worst part (or the best part depending on which way you look at it) is many of those same douchebags will inevitably show up at Stade Saputo in 2012, looking to show us supporters how to "really support a team like in our country bro! " and will be quick to proclaim themselves life-long Impact fans as soon as the team wins 2 games in a row. Alright, I think that's all I got for now..

Rant over. Bon match tout le monde!