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Toronto boss steps down

Toronto FC head coach Aron Winter has stepped down after a dismal start to the season that has left the club in Major League Soccer’s basement.Winter, 45, leaves Toronto having won just one of their 10 league games this season.Paul Mariner, the club’s director of player development, will take over coaching duties effective immediately, the club announced at a press conference yesterday at BMO Field.Winter was offered another position within the organisation, but declined.A former England and Ipswich striker, Mariner was instrumental in bringing Bermuda’s Reggie Lambe to the club and also worked with national team skipper Khano Smith at New England Revolution.Lambe, who also played for the Tractor Boys, has enjoyed an encouraging start to the season and has scored four goals so far this season.Mariner becomes Toronto’s sixth head coach, following Winter, Mo Johnston, John Carver, Chris Cummins, Preki and Dasovic.