Toronto FC Loses Friendly To Fantastically-Named Local Team Mexican Navy

Toronto FC are on a barnstorming tour of Mexico warming up for the MLS regular season (read about the lengths teams will go to try to stop a Sebastian Giovinco free kick here), which led them to a friendly against local Mexico City club Mexican Navy. We are not making that name up.

Mexican Navy beat Toronto FC (admittedly without most if not all of their good players) 2-0. We are not making that up either. We'll let the Toronto FC Twitter account tell the story of the game. Anchors away!

 Starting XI vs. Mexican Navy

Clint Irwin
Tim Kubel
Julian Dunn
Nick Hagglund
Ashtone Morgan
Nicolas Hasler
Liam Fraser
Noble Okello
Tsubasa Endoh
Jordan Hamilton
Ben Spencer

Today’s friendly will be played in two 30-minute halves.#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

GOAL Mexican Navy 

The hosts strike first.#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

HT: The Reds are down 1-0 with 30 still to play.#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

The second half kicks off. No changes for TFC.#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

TFC SUB

IN: Ayo Akinola
OUT: Ben Spencer#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

GOAL Mexican Navy 

A deflected shot goes in.#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

YOU MIGHT SAY THAT TORONTO FC'S CHANCES AT GETTING A POSITIVE RESULT FROM THIS MATCH WERE . . . SUNK . . . BY THAT SECOND GOAL.

FT: The Reds drop a 2-0 result.#TFCLive | #MXNvTOR

— Toronto FC (@torontofc) February 9, 2018

Abandon ship!