It’s a wrap: Eskey the key as Toronto win their last game in Florida

By: Sam | March 14th, 2007

Two days of training remain for Toronto FC before they take a break and depart for Charleston where they will be competing in the Carolina Challenge Cup, against the hometown Charelston Battery, the New York Red Bulls and the Houston Dynamo. They capped off their set of exhibition matches in Bradenton and Sunrise on a good note, disposing of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 3-0.

Alecko Eskandarian converted the penalty that he was awarded right from the get-go, which would be the only goal of the half. José Cancela scored a free-kick in the second to put TFC up by a pair. Eskey assisted on Paulo Nagamura’s shot that put the game away at three-nil.

After that series of very, very unofficial matches, Toronto has looked solid on paper with an 8-1-1 record. Note: 24 goals for and 4 against.

Here is a quick overview of every game Toronto has played so far, with the scorers.

Feb 13: Toronto 1-0 Florida International University (Hurtado)
Feb 16: Toronto 3-0 Honduras Five-Star (Reid, West, West)
Feb 17: Toronto 3-0 Canada U-20 (Reda, Canizales, (og))
Feb 19: Toronto 1-2 Canada U-20 (Pozniak)
Feb 20: Toronto 5-0 SoccerMax (Buddle, Cancela, Ibrahim, Nagamura, West)
Feb 23: Toronto 3-2 Lynn University (Buddle, Buddle, Buddle)
Mar 6: Toronto 1-0 Creighton University (Lombardo)
Mar 8: Toronto 4-0 University of Connecticut (Eskandarian, Ibrahim, Lombardo, Cadavieco)
Mar 12: Toronto 0-0 USA U-17s
Mar 14: Toronto 3-0 University of Notre Dame (Eskandarian, Cancela, Nagamura)

Scorers:
4. Edson Buddle (USA)
3. Hunter West (USA)
2. José Cancela (Uruguay)
2. Abbe Ibrahim (Togo)
2. Andrea Lombardo (Canada)
2. Paulo Nagamura (Brazil)
1. Ivan Cadavieco (Spain)
1. Miguel Canziares (Canada)
1. Hector Hurtado (Colombia)
1. Chris Pozniak (Canada)
1. Garfield Reid (Jamaica)