John Herdman plans a soft landing with Toronto FC. Probably a sound move given the mess that awaits.
The former Canada coach, who was scheduled to arrive in Toronto on Sunday evening from the West Coast, will essentially spend his first week on the job observing the underperforming MLS club. Toronto has two road games this week, at Charlotte FC on Wednesday and the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, before closing out the season at home against Orlando City on Oct. 21.
“As a staff, we've been thinking about this, talking about it, for the last three, four weeks. There's an excitement just to get in the building and feel what's there. And see it,” Herdman said in an interview. “We won't disrupt Terry and the staff's flow through these two matches,” he added. “We'll travel with the team. All the new staff will be in an observational, sort of assessment period where they can ask all the questions they need to ask. They can see and we can feel what MLS is and how it differs to our international context that all of us have experienced for the last sort of 10 years. So it will be a good learning period.
Toronto has gone 19-53-27 in league play since Greg Vanney stepped down after the 2019 season. Chris Armas, Javier Perez, Bob Bradley and Dunfield have been unable to stop the slide which has seen the team take up permanent occupancy in or around the league basement. The Canadian men were ranked 94th in the world when he switched programs in 2018. Under Herdman, the men climbed as high as No. 33, were named the “Most Improved Side” in 2021 by FIFA and qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 36 years.
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