Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney sees pluses in pre-season loss to college team
A 2-1 pre-season loss to Cal State Fullerton didn’t faze Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney. He saw it as serving a purpose for the MLS Cup runners-up.
Sunday’s setback came on the eighth straight day of training in California.
“It was a little bit of a wake-up call that you don’t get to just show up,” Vanney said Wednesday after a team training session back in Toronto. “Even if you’re tired, you’ve got to push through it.
“And just because we went to a final doesn’t mean you get to win every game. So I’m perfectly comfortable with the fact that we had that result. It’s a nice little message to the group, because they were biting each other a little bit at the end for not having won that game at a bare minimum.”