Everything is new these days for Toronto FC’s Tyrese Spicer, from scoring his first MLS goal to seeing himself in a video game.
. A week later, he scored 35 minutes into his first start, a 2-0 win over Atlanta United at BMO Field. “He will start developing a new threat level for us because when you’ve got that level of pace, teams have to respect that,” Herdman said after the game. “It’s feeling way better now,” Spicer said this week after a regimen of rest, ice and anti-inflammatories.
He played at wide forward at Lipscomb, leaving as a United Soccer Coaches first-team all-American, a MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalist and the Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year. “I need to explore more. I think I’ll wait until the summer though because it’s too cold right now,” said the native of Trincity, Trinidad, some 4,050 kilometres south of Toronto.