VANCOUVER, BC – Bob Lenarduzzi remembers the meeting as if it was yesterday.
When Vancouver Whitecaps FC majority owner Greg Kerfoot first expressed an interest in purchasing the club back in 2002, he asked Lenarduzzi where the team was training at the time.
The answer was Clinton Park.
It’s a nice little field in East Vancouver, but not exactly ideal for a professional soccer team. The ‘Caps, for example, would have to work around the other user groups to get training time. There were two fields at Clinton Park – one for rugby and one soccer field that was converted to baseball in the summer.