Toronto FC tryouts sell out

[Loud Mouth Soup]

http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/artic...23_132639_4624

TORONTO (CP) -- All 1,000 spots at an open tryout for Toronto FC have been filled, the expansion MLS club said Thursday.

The club says it has received applications from across Canada and from as far away as Cruzeiro, Brazil.

The tryouts, open to players 14 and over at a non-refundable cost of $115, needed just over two weeks to reach capacity.

A waiting list has been created for those turned down.

The tryouts run Dec. 18 to 22 at the Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan, Ont.

Toronto FC is the league's 13th franchise and will begin play next spring at the new 20,000-seat BMO Field at Exhibition Place on the Toronto waterfront.

[Calgary Boomer]

Nice 115,000 Profit.

[loyola]

I guess they have to pay the coaches/scouts/medics and rent the facilities, not exactly a 115K profit but still a nice profit.

[behrouz]

for this four dayes .it wouldn't cost more than $10000.it is good to see some one is making money on soccer in this country also 1000 pepole show interst looks very good for new club

[pro active]

It is really impressive and encouraging someone did make some money in soccer in this country. However I understand most of the applicants who registered for try outs are 16 years old and 17 years old form various OYSl teams. I think they paid $115.00 to be seen by the scouts in the hope that some of the talent might be the building force behind their senior team for the future through their youth development teams. If this new organization is sincere about being succesful they can not overllok the young talent that is available to be developed in our back yard.

[Calgary Boomer]

It would be cool to be there to see how fast some of these hopefuls last. Mo will literally be tapping people on the shoulder after mere seconds of seeing them play.