As a Toronto kid, I resonate with this sentiment. Especially with the CPL, and teams like Forge coming through and playing an attractive brand with Canadian ballers - my interest is in all things Canadian football first. And yes TFC has been successful in the past years, to me it’s “real” when it’s done with a significant amount of Canadians regularly playing/contributing - we haven’t seen that yet.
And I know I’m suppose to hate our little bastard brother in MTL, but I’ve had a low-key affinity for them since their first CCL run in 2009 when they shut out Santos Laguna in leg 1 with 8 Canadian guys starting or featuring in that game. (Sebrango, Braz, Grande, Placentinno, Pizzolitto, Byers, Deroux, Brilliant). That was all before the team was in MLS!
So how can you not get/be happy when the opps are playing and being successful with the Canadian bred boys.