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TFC top Superdraft pick Endoh takes long, earthquake-rocked road to MLS
Tsubasa Endoh doesn’t figure to make an immediate impact at Toronto FC this upcoming MLS season, but given what he’s endured it’s unlikely to bother him.
Nearly five years ago, the Tokyo native Endoh was practising with his JFA Academy football team in Fukushima, Japan, when a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami slammed into the coastal city and tore it apart, including the nuclear power plant two hours away. With his team waiting out the disaster that afternoon, huddling in the centre of their practice field, it was a start of an ordeal that went on for some time:
“With radiation, you can’t see anything. It’s an invisible enemy. We can’t do anything about it, so we just tried to escape from that place.”
Daniel Popper tells the full story, including his academy team taking refuge for a month in Tokyo, for the University of Maryland’s student paper. Endoh went from JFA to the Terrapins, and on Thursday TFC selected him with the ninth choice in the MLS Superdraft. The MVP of this week's MLS Combine, he's likely ticketed as a reserve to begin – Clement Simonin, taken by TFC with the same slot last year, started just a couple of games in his rookie season – with his natural position on the wing or as a No. 10, but with international obligations taking the likes of Michael Bradley and Seb Giovinco away from the team in June, Endoh may well have a role to play sooner rather than later.
Among the other Canadian content in the first round:
Toronto’s Richie Laryea went seventh, to Orlando. For the University of Akron midfielder, it means a reunion with his former teammate with Toronto club Sigma FC Cyle Larin, who went to expansion City first overall in last year’s Superdraft and went on to win MLS rookie of the year honours.
At 14th, Montreal took centre back Kyle Fisher, out of Clemson University, who with Laurent Ciman and Victor Cabrera the incumbents at the heart of the Impact backline figures to start the season as a reserve.
Vancouver, picking 16th, took Georgetown central defender Cole Seiler, shoring up the backline after an off-season which has had them adding to the attack Masato Kudo and on the verge of also getting Costa Rican international Christian Bolanos.
