Ex Metro Star signs for TFC…. Potentially

By: nicholas | March 18th, 2008

As i awake from my St patty’s induced slumber, i am bombarded with emails and texts about an incoming player coming to TFC. At first i didn’t believe that the imminent signing was true, because i was positive that the same player had declined to come to TFC less than 12 months ago. I guess a season back at home in Honduras is enough to douse his self imposed ego and allowed him to sign for TFC.

If you are still wondering who mystery player is, it is the Honduran play maker Armando Guevara.

In the early days of the MLS, i didn’t really have a team to follow so i decided to follow the closest team to me, so by default i had decided that “NY/NJ Metrostars” would be my team. If you think about it “how could i go wrong”. The team had star power Youri Djorkaeff, ~~Lothar Matthäus~~ ( what was i thinking), Roberto Donadoni , Sarvese, Micheal Bradley and of course Armando Guevara. Another factor was that it was close enough that i could go to 1 or 2 games a season and he was becoming the greatest American based header since Monica Lewinsky.

My opinion of Armando Guevara is that, if he brings the kind of form he showed for Metro stars in the past and the form that he is showing for his current team CD Motagua in the CONCACAF Champions Cup this year, i can guarantee that Toronto will be playoffs this year, and will be pushing for the ’ship.

* One more thing that should be know, is that Armando Guevara is one of only two MLS based players to be traded for the Illustrious DP slots. So that should be a precursor to what is to come.

Other TFC news.

1. Jarrod Smith- the 2007 Supplemental Draft pick was finally signed by TFC. This signing was so under the radar that i was skeptical to the validity of it, but his name is on the team list on the website, so i guess it has to be true.

2. Marco Velez- who has signed with TFC from the Puerto Rico Islanders (USL) would be the first Puerto Rican to play in the MLS. ( i guess he can call Carlo Arroyo about Professional life in the USA/Canada)

3. Victor Danilo Pacheco and Leonardo Mina Polo seam to have signed for TFC.

In this case of Pacheco and Leanardo Mina Polo there are way too many newspapers reports to ignore this story. From what they say it is all but guaranteed that they will be signed pending any visa issues. ( below is one of those news papers results from Studio Futbol . * the sight is written in spanish

In exclusive interview with StudioFutbol.com, the steering wheel of Chicó assured that it has a supply of Toronto F.C. and would travel in few days to North America. After the encounter that its equipment equaled 1 - 1 before Envigado, the midfield player confirmed the news, will go to a second foreign equipment during his sport race, after happening through Mexican Atlante.

Interview: StudioFutbol.com (SF): There is a possibility so that Víctor Pacheco plays with Toronto F.C. in the MLS? Víctor Pacheco (VP): “It is a possibility, we are speaking with Boyacá (Chicó) and Eduardo (Pimentel). The important thing is that this is a pretty possibility for me, for my family and the club. Hopefully that in the course of the next hours can be defined everything and can go to the MLS “.

SF: It knows something on Toronto F.C.?

VP: “No, I do not know anything, but people were interested in me, it liked my form and it reached a verbal agreement. There is nothing still written nor no signed, but the important thing is that the interest exists so that in the next days everything is defined “.

SF: To whom it would benefit this transference?

VP: “This is advisable for the three parts, I I thank to him to Eduardo (Pimentel), who gave the opportunity me to come here and in these two months I felt to taste, I felt well by the treatment that they gave me, but soccer is thus. When I arrived I proposed to him that if there were a possibility to go to me (to the outside) it gave the facility me and, luckily, Pimentel is a soccer person, that understands this. The important thing is that I go away calm, this equipment has players to make the things affluent and hopefully in June it can come to celebrate the title “.

SF: After his exit, it would be left Chicó without the forwards sufficient to face the rest of the match?

VP: “the equipment is put in the fight, Boyacá has players to replace anyone, there is amount and there is quality and hopefully that the equipment obtains the title, because there is a good group, a good technical body and is people back who always are supporting it”.

SF: Why it thinks that the North American market to the Colombian soccer players is being opened to him so much?

VP: “(Colombian soccer) it has been pleasing for short while (in the United States), I I believe that the important thing is that, the one that goes, tries to leave the name of Colombian soccer in stop and that people continue themselves interesting much more in the Colombian soccer players”. Photo: Julian Medina. Official Web of Boyacá Chicó