[DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY] The Vancouver Whitecaps, who have been spending more than $1 million U.S. each year on their full-time, fully funded residency programlaunched in 2007, will join the U.S. Soccer Development Academy and begin competing during the 2011-12 season. Vancouver, the first Canadian program admitted to the Development Academy,is expanding its youth program to include […]
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Luna looks sharp in first start
[HOMEGROWN WATCH] Ruben Luna made his first start for FC Dallas in its 2-0 loss at the Columbus Crew on Friday. Thedefeat extended FCD’s winless skid to three games. If there’s anything wrong with the 2010 runners-up, it’s not their young players like Luna. Luna, who turned 19 in January, and18-year-old Colombian Fabian Castillo both […]
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Crew and FC Dallas test their makeovers
Some changes were forced and some were discretionary, but regardless of motivation, the Crew and FC Dallas, which meet In the second Friday night game of the season (7:30 p.m., Fox Soccer Channel),aren’t what they were in 2010. The Crew has shed several members of its 2008 championship team. In his MLS tenure, Guillermo Barros […]
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Two new stars reverse fortunes in second week
[MLS RED CARDS] They were two-goal heroes in the first week of play and sent off in the second, so in Week 3 Vancouver and Sporting Kansas City, respectively,will have to make do without Designated Players Eric Hassli and Omar Bravo when they meet Saturday at Empire Field. Seldom have two DPs debuted sodramatically in […]
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Vancouver-Toronto game draws record audience
[TELEVISION WATCH] How big is MLS’s newest rivalry in Canada? The first all-Canada game between the Vancouver Whitecaps and Toronto FC drew an average of289,000 viewers on TSN, making its the most-watched MLS game in Canadian television history. The first game of TSN’s six-year deal drew 1.4 million viewers who tuned in at one point […]
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Out of the gate: Who's hot, who's not
[MLS POWER RANKINGS] Here’s a rundown as to where the 18 MLS teams stand after 10 games (two apiece for Seattle and Los Angeles), based on last season’s recordsand what they’ve shown to date in 2011: 1. REAL SALT LAKE. Normally, outside competitions don’t factor into the MLS rankings, but this early in the season, […]
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Niagara Falls all behind teen sensation Teibert
[HOMEGROWN WATCH] An early candidate for 2011 Homegrown Player of the Year is 18-year-old Russell Teibert. The two-timeCanadian U-17 Player of the Year hails from Niagara Falls, Ont., and entered the Vancouver Whitecaps’ residency program in the summer of 2008. About the only thing slowing down the youngmidfielder is injuries. He was one of only […]
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Best yet to come in Vancouver thanks to Kerfoot
NBA star Steve Nash, a Vancouver Whitecaps minority owner, is a household name in Vancouver. Another co-owner, JeffMallett, is well known as a founder of internet giant Yahoo!. But Greg Kerfoot, the Whitecaps’ majority owner, is an unknown to all but Vancouver’shard-core soccer fans. Kerfoot, who isn’t listed on the Whitecaps’ website and doesn’t even […]
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Whitecaps fill out roster with four signings
[MLS] The Vancouver Whitecaps’ player list, one of the leanest in MLS heading into its expansion year, is much fuller with the signing of four players who’vebeen with the team during preseason. Striker Camilo da Silva Sanvezzo, midfielders Russell Teibert and Alexandre Morfaw, and center backMichael Boxall have signed league contracts, the terms of which […]
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Vancouver Whitecaps sign 'creative' playmaker to new contract
[MLS] The expansion Vancouver Whitecaps, which announced the signing of forward Eric Hassli last weekend as its first Designated Player, hascompleted the upgrading of playmaker Davide Chiumiento to an MLS contract. Terms of the deal by which Vancouver retained rights to Chiumiento, acquired last August when theWhitecaps were still part of the USSF D-2 Pro […]