MLS notebook: FC Dallas’s next step, TFC’s fall and more

FC Dallas beat the Seattle Sounders on Sunday on the back of Carlos Ruiz’s last-second golazo. Take a look at that goal, and recognize the incredible difficulty of Mauro Diaz’s assist:

You need to have the Adobe Flash Player to view this content. Please click here to continue. Not long after that play, Diaz tore his ACL as a result of a collision with Seattle’s Tyrone Mears and was recently confirmed to have been ruled out for eight months. A renowned North Carolina surgeon was scheduled to perform surgery on the oft-injured MVP candidate on Wednesday.

Diaz is arguably the best No. 10 in MLS and while he does not compile the box score statistics that somebody like Diego Valeri does, he spends…