With everything on the line, with what will be a loud, proud and growing fan base solidly behind them at TD Place Sunday, Atletico Ottawa is looking to put the…
It wasn’t so long ago Atletico was statistically the worst franchise in the Canadian Premier League. The standings told the story. It was a soccer team that struggled to keep the ball out of its own net and didn’t score enough goals at the other end to be competitive on a regular basis.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
a breakout season after making the move from Pacific FC in the off-season. He was a driving force in Ottawa’s midfield, leading his team with eight goals and was named to the CPL’s Gatorade Team of the Week a league-high 11 times. “The most important thing from the beginning was trying to change the mentality,” said Gonzalez, who was named the league’s coach of the year Friday night. “Bringing in 16 new players who were clear minded was a great first step. Day by day in the training sessions and the meetings, we tried to create a mentality in which we are not a team that is complacent, we are a team that is ambitious and we are a team that has a winning mentality.
Forge FC won 14 regular-season games this season, but also lost nine, to finish in second place in the league standings, behind Atletico. Forge scored 47 goals, while giving up 25 – for a goal differential of 22. Atletico’s differential was just seven. When things went wrong, they really went wrong. Ottawa’s season included a 4-0 loss to Forge, 6-1 to Valour and 4-1 to Cavalry.Article content
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