Toronto FC’s recent achievements have many talking, including the local media that followed closely the Reds’ march into the continent as it continued in Tuesday’s 3-0 demolition of FC Dallas. That win secured Toronto a passage into the elite eight of North American club football in the 2011/12 CONCACAF Champions League.

Nigel Reed at CBC believes this is a victory not only for Toronto, but for the entire country. Though we are not sure Vancouver and Montreal supporters will get on board, TFC left back Ashtone Morgan’s love affair with the Canadian flag - captured toward the end of this postgame video - caught Reed’s attention at the national broadcaster.

He didn't need much persuading. When it was over Ashtone Morgan sat in the visitors' dressing room, draped in a Maple Leaf flag he collected from a fan while leaving the field. The night belonged to Toronto FC. The victory belongs to Canada. MORE…

At the country’s largest daily newspaper, Toronto Star columnist Cathal Kelly sees the breakthrough as a major step forward in the progression of Canada’s first Major League Soccer club.

Five years in to their existence, all of Toronto FC’s victories had been moral ones. … This club had never finished anything.On Tuesday night in Dallas, they did — cementing a memory that finally qualifies as a genuine sporting achievement.MORE…

Toronto Sun writer Ryan Wolstat touched on the longer view. TFC’s victory takes them into the quarterfinals of CCL, and while winning the continental trophy will prove a Herculean task in itself (home and away legs all the way through, including the final), the winner will get to represent the region at the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup.  

Though TFC’s MLS season will end on Saturday at BMO Field, its 2012 season will get an early start next March at the quarterfinals in pursuit of a berth at the ninth edition of the FIFA Club World Cup. MORE…

Forward Danny Koevermans continued his torrid goal scoring on Tuesday and Joao Plata delivered a heroic brace, but Sportsnet’s John Molinaro had plenty of time for the third forward in Toronto’s attack, Ryan Johnson.

Johnson has been one of the club's most consistent players during the second half of the campaign. … (He) has dutifully and rather quietly gone about his business since coming to Toronto as part of the Nana Attakora trade in the summer.MORE...

The Dallas-Toronto match was billed as the most important game in the Reds’ five year history. Richard Whittall wasn’t sold on that idea, but following the team’s emphatic victory, he was convinced at least that it was TFC’s greatest performance.

(Toronto) not only won the match 3-0 but did so with a comprehensive performance fans have been waiting to watch for the last five years.MORE...

That’s only a small collection of clippings from the media, alongside the countless TFC blogs that have sprung up on the web from Reds' faithful – old and new – freshly inspired by the steadily improving fortunes of Toronto FC.