When Whitecaps FC 2 (WFC2) began play in the USL last year, the main goal was clear – to provide a proving ground for the club’s young talent.
After adapting to the professional game in their first season, a number of prospects have stepped up in 2016. A season of vast improvement extends on Friday as they play their first ever USL Cup Playoffs match on the road at Colorado Switchbacks FC (kickoff at 6 p.m. PT, streamed LIVE at whitecapsfc.com).
Among those prospects who have stepped up are two players who have earned MLS contracts this year in Alphonso Davies and Brett Levis, and four others who have been called up to the first team at one point or another with Kyle Greig, Spencer Richey, Sem de Wit, and Daniel Haber.