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A moment of absolute genius from Sebastian Giovinco made some MLS history last night

The diminutive Italian scored one of the best goals the league has ever seen to book Toronto’s place in the play-offs.

IT HAS BEEN a long, painful road for fans of Toronto FC.

The franchise first entered Major League Soccer in 2007 but have consistently failed to come close to winning the championship.

In fact, even the play-offs have always eluded them.

Until last night.

And it was a case of cometh the hour, cometh the man as Sebastian Giovinco – the former Juventus player who arrived at the club in March and who has single-handedly amazed both fans and critics with some relentlessly-impressive performances – came up trumps once more.

The 28-year-old played half an hour for the Italian national side in their Euro 2016 qualifier against Norway on Tuesday and had stepped off a plane just hours before Toronto kicked-off against New York Red Bulls on Wednesday evening.

Unsurprisingly, Giovinco started on the bench, and watched as Herculez Gomez put Toronto in front after 51 minutes.

But he was sprung from the dugout with twenty minutes to go and shortly after he conjured a moment of absolute genius to score of the finest MLS goals the league has ever seen.

A special night for the city of Toronto and with the diminutive attacker playing so well, who knows what the future holds for the club?

 

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    Mute Cowboy Paddy
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:06 PM

    So let’s get us get this… Every Galway and Mayo fan are going down the one road to a match…
    On top of that the traffic for the Irish Open will also be going on as Ennis is the where the Park and Ride is going from.

    Seriously could Galway and Mayo just use there home and away agreement… Galway was next due and next time it would be Mayo… This is just embarrassing…

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:18 PM

    @Cowboy Paddy: should have been played on Hyde park roscommon

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    Mute According to Di Marzio
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:21 PM

    @@at: Hyde is not big enough to maximise the cash at the gate and lets be honest thats the first, last, and only consideration for any GAA fixture location.

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    Mute Finnster
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:21 PM

    @@at: happy with Limerick . Mayo have bad memories of that ground . Hopefully we can give them another nightmare

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    Mute According to Di Marzio
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:22 PM

    @Cowboy Paddy: Whats embarrassing is the notion that our infrastructure can’t handle two sporting events 50 miles apart and can’t handle 30,000 fans going down a motorway between our 3rd and 4th biggest cities.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:29 PM

    @Finnster: because it’s only down the road for ye

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    Mute Do the Bort man
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:33 PM

    @According to Di Marzio: The Motorway will be fine, I was on the M4/6 two years ago when Roscommon played Mayo, and Galway played Kerry in the quarter finals on the same day in Croker. It was very busy, but nothing compared to the 3 land M50 on a regular rush hour.

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    Mute Jack
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:33 PM

    @Cowboy Paddy: however bad getting to limerick will be, nothing is as bad as getting in and out of Salthill for a game

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:33 PM

    @Cowboy Paddy: motorway all the way from tuam lad. Traffic would be 10 times worse if it was in castlebar or Salthill. Limerick is well used to these events with the likes of Munster and limerick gaa. It will be the finest

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:35 PM

    @According to Di Marzio: plus let’s be honest, nobody outside Roscommon wants to be going to Hyde Park. Traffic in the town would be ridiculous not to mention the vast amount of supporters who’d miss out due to its capacity restrictions

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:35 PM

    @According to Di Marzio: exactly

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    Mute Do the Bort man
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:43 PM

    @Anthony: Hyde Park holds 25k (since the upgrade), just under 19k people attended Mayo v Armagh at the weekend, so capacity wise, there probably wouldn’t have been an issue.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:49 PM

    @stephen keane: Galway borders Mayo , Kilmaine , Ballinrobe , Claremorris areas are all as close if not closer than parts of Connemara and Clifden. So it’s fair on both sides . One of us is going to have a long sad drive back home though after the game ; )

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:50 PM

    @Do the Bort man: don’t put a damper on the Mayo ego and how they’ll be bringing 35,000 fans to Limerick – all pure mad of course!

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    Mute Julian
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    Jul 1st 2019, 5:56 PM

    @Cowboy Paddy: it’s ok, there’s a motorway!! They built one sometime ago!!

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    Mute Cryptoalcho
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    Jul 1st 2019, 6:00 PM

    @Anthony: motorway all the way from tuam alright. But what happens when everyone trys to use the same exits into limerick?

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    Jul 1st 2019, 6:27 PM

    @Finnster: I hope so but the way we have been playing it’s hard to see it. We have played 2 mediocre teams and one average team so far and haven’t even remotely impressed. That type of form isn’t good.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 7:25 PM

    @Cowboy Paddy: Has to be neutral venue for a game of this magnitude. Limerick is only down the road. You have a strange idea of what the word ‘embarrassing’ means.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 7:46 PM

    @Finnster: they played us in the Gaelic Grounds last year and gave us a predictable walloping Finnster so there most recent memory is positive.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 8:40 PM

    @mike Kennedy: true , forgot about that

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    Jul 1st 2019, 8:41 PM

    @Tony Boyle: they are really going to have to step it up . The second half in the Connacht Final was dire

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    Jul 1st 2019, 9:13 PM

    @Cryptoalcho: do a bit of research before you leave. There are lots of different exits you can take. Stadium is well served and more accessible than most I think.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 6:01 PM

    “Capacity of 43k”. There was 44k at it yesterday. Funny that.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:22 PM

    One game on RTÉ over the weekend. Sad !

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    Jul 1st 2019, 7:18 PM

    @Nightowl: money hungry GAA – madness having the game in Limerick

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    Jul 1st 2019, 5:16 PM

    Can we assume that Kerry vs Galway/Mayo will be on Sunday 14th July? (as the winner of Meath/Clare will be entitled to a 7 day turnaround in the Group’s other match).
    It’s a complete joke that the GAA cannot tell us exactly what dates matches of this scale are being held until 6 days prior to the match itself.

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    Mute Do the Bort man
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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:39 PM

    I wonder what the attendance will be? Works carried out at Dr Hyde park has increased its capacity to 25,000 people. Surely that would have been enough, and closer for both the teams and supporters.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:09 PM

    Ahh The sports grounds…

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    Jul 1st 2019, 7:36 PM

    Tuam or Nowhere

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:37 PM

    According to this article both Mayo & Galway gaa agreed to the venue. Its their own county boards’ fault. There is also a big tiddly winks blitz on in Limerick, oh the mayhem.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 8:34 PM

    @The don: Surprised Mayo agreed considering Limerick is closer to Galway

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    Jul 1st 2019, 8:01 PM

    Really daft that two Connacht counties has to play a championship match in Munster. Both could have come together and agreed on a home venue like the agreement in place for Connnacht championship games. Hyde park was more than capable of hosting the expected crowd of 18 to 20k matter of fact there was 24k at the Connacht final in 2015 but GAA politics tells us other wise now.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 10:09 PM

    Should be played in Dr Hyde Park. 8000 capacity wasnt an issue last year in Newbridge. Its down to greed. 7pm throw in as well. Sky dictates the starting times.

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    Jul 1st 2019, 4:26 PM

    What a joke ,.

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    Jul 2nd 2019, 2:26 AM

    Surely there wont be anything more than 20k-25k max at Mayo-Galway game? Hyde Park would have been sufficient.

    But sure the Gaelic Grounds and the throw-in time gives Mayo fans another reason to whinge, so everyone happy all round then.

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