Toronto FC star striker Sebastian Giovinco questionable for Vancouver game
TORONTO — Star striker Sebastian Giovinco received treatment for a painful charley horse Tuesday as his Toronto FC teammates trained in advance of this week’s trip to Vancouver.
With a long plane ride leading to an artificial field at B.C. Place Stadium and the knowledge that next week is a bye, keeping the Atomic Ant as snug as a bug back home may be an option. After Saturday’s game with the Whitecaps (0-1-1), Toronto (0-0-2) doesn’t play again until the March 31 home opener against Sporting Kansas City.
Toronto coach Greg Vanney said Giovinco was questionable for Vancouver.
The five-foot-four, 130-pound Italian had to helped off late in the first half of Saturday’s 2-2 tie in Philadelphia when six-foot-four 210 pound defender Oguchi Onyewu caught him with a knee to the right thigh in a challenge.