Eduardo Sebrango is no stranger to the Montreal Impact, but in his latest soccer life he becomes the oldest player on the team and in all of MLS.

Sebrango will turn 39 just a month into the debut MLS season for Montreal (April 13).  Can it really be a decade since he matched his career high with 18 goals with the Impact in A-League soccer?

Sebrango won 5 championships in a 10-year span with the Rochester Raging Rhinos, twice with the Impact (2004&2009) and twice with Vancouver ('06&'08).

The Impact debut March 10 in Vancouver and March 17 at Olympic Stadium.

MLS Commissioner Don Garber says Montreal offers the MLS a cultural opportunity that allows the League to expand its cultural offering.

Garber, who spoke to the Montreal Board of Trade today, said the League has high expectations for Montreal as an expansion franchise, but acknowledged it isn't going to be wildly successful coming out of the box, and added "this is a hard business."

"It's about a long-term plan to try and ensure that we're building something that can be very important to the city and people who live here," said Garber.

Team President Joey Saputo, who also spoke at today's luncheon, acknowledged that there is still work to be done.  

"We're not there," said Saputo.  "The team still needs to be built.  From a sales standpoint, we're not at the level we want to be, but we feel comfortable that we will be."

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The Montreal impact will play David Beckham in it’s third preseason game this afternoon in California. I guess the rest of the LA Galaxy will be there too…but all eyes of course will be on Beckham. Or maybe that’s just me. Impact coaches on the other hand will be watching to see how their new team is gelling.

"We want to try to be consistant in our message and the work that we try to put in,” Assistant coach Mike Sorber said. “And so it gets put to the test against a good LA team that has a lot of quality pieces. So we’ll get to see everybody in their different formations but also look at the chemistry between different groups of guys.”

After the match, the Impact will play an addition 45 minutes against Chivas USA of MLS.

“You know it’s going to be tough obviously they’re the ...

The Impact have entered into a four-year deal with the Parc Olympique Quebec to play a series of MLS games through 2015.

In their inaugural season, the Impact will play five games at the Olympic Stadium, which the expansion project continues at Saputo Stadium.  The following three seasons, the Impact will play two or three games at the Big O; dates for those three seasons to be determined.

"Our season starts in March.  It will be tough playing our home opener at Saputo Stadium," said team President Joey Saputo.  "Having the flexibility of having the Olympic Stadium is great."

"You always have to take a look at the economics of it. Sometimes a 20,000 seat stadium won't give you the economics or the flexibilty to do what you want to do.  We've seen in the past, doing games at Olympic Stadium, it's great."

The Impact home opener in 2012 will ...

Striker Brian Ching wore his heart on his sleeve today as members of the Montreal Impact reported for the first day of MLS training camp at the Marie Victorin Sports Complex.

Ching showed up for duty after earlier threatening to retire after the Impact made the 33-year-old veteran their number 1 pick in the recent MLS Expansion Draft.  However, it would appear that cooler heads have prevailed.  

"I'll be completely honest with you, said Ching. "I would have loved to finish my career in  Houston.  It was something I was planning on.  But I'm a professional.  Sometimes you don't get what you always want. For the past two months I've come to cope with that and deal with it."

Ching, who appeared to be struggling with his emotions at times when talking about his career in Houston, which began in 2006, said at this point it's his desire to ...