October 7, 2010 CSL Best/Worst of 2010 Awards from Voyageur message board survey (by Rocket Robin)

The Voyageurs message board had a 'Best of/Worst of' survey for those of us who take in a lot of games and I spent some time answering it. It brought back some good and bad memories. (note the season was not over at the time I answered.)

  
I attended 49 games so far and every team at least 4 times so let's go:

2010 SEASON MVP Milos Scepanovic Serbian White Eagles 

BEST GOALKEEPER Milos Kocic Serbian White Eagles (best defence in the league) on the MLS Toronto FC roster where he wastes away catching balls 
in the pre game warm ups.

BEST DEFENDER Mirko Medic Serbian White Eagles (was called up for the Toronto FC vs Bolton England game) very steady defence for that whole team. 

BEST MIDFIELDER Hayden Fitzwilliams Toronto Croatia puts the ball into the box for teammates.

BEST FORWARD Tihomir Maletic Toronto Croatia (tough call because of their long slump but he is the league leading scorer).

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR Nicholas Lindsay TFC Academy now moved up to the Toronto FC roster.

BEST YOUNG PLAYER Milos Scepanovic Serbian White Eagles

BEST COACH Rafael Carbahal Milltown FC starting the team from scratch.

WORST COACH Goran Rapaic of Brampton Lions...no wins in first 7 games...then he was fired and Amando Costa brought back and they only missed the 
playoffs by one game.

BEST CLUB York Region Shooters 1st place team...top 4 all year long.

WORST CLUB St Catharines Wolves last this year.

BEST UP COMING CLUB Milltown FC starting from nothing to almost winning the regular season title.

WORST GOING CLUB St Catharines Wolves they slipping further back each year. defence is OK but they can't score goals. only 17 in 23 games.

BEST CLUB DIRECTOR Dino Rossi Jr of Milltown FC started the team from scratch less than 12 months ago. 

WORST CLUB DIRECTOR shared--between Montreal Impact Academy for cheapness--forcing the team to travel to Ontario and play two games 
in 24 hours. (GTA clubs offered them Friday and Sunday games but they wanted to play Fri-Sat or Sat-Sun. #1 reason they didn't make the playoffs.
--TFC Academy for driving the games out of BMO Field where even if they could hold on to 2% of the MLS crowd, they would have had better 
atmosphere then having them play up the street one hour after the main game. Also no promotion or outdated info like continuing to list 
in the TFC program that they would be playing at BMO months after they were put out. 

BEST REFEREE David Barrie saw him referee USL game Montreal vs Baltimore then found out he became 
a National referee. he often gets the tough games but keeps them in control.
WORST REFEREE don't really know.

BEST SUPPORTERS Hamilton (only went to one of their games) problems with the GTA teams, some draw big crowds but only some of the time.

WORST SUPPORTERS Astros, Shooters, TFC Academy where were they?
Astros--years of bad results.
Shooters--surprise one of the best teams for winning results.
TFC Academy--being pushed between different GTA stadiums is part of the reason.

BEST GAME Fri Sep 3rd Brampton beat York Region 3-2 with the Lions having a player Red carded in the first half and being down 2-0 
already, clawing back to score three second half goals to win.
Runner ups or last minute thrills--York Region tie Milltown 1-1 on 93rd minute goal. North York tie York Region 1-1 on a 92nd minute 
goal. Both goals started on goalie's freekick or punts downfield. 

WORST GAME the games that weren't played at Centennial Stadium. Sun May 16th Toronto Croatia vs London City (hmm was never rescheduled) 
field unplayable because of a track meet that dug up part of the sideline...then Fri May 21st Serbian WE vs St Catharines--the field is still 
not ready! Plywood had been layed over the holes. 

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