Vancouver Whitecaps Development Report (February 2019)

The title of this article keeps changing every year because the Vancouver Whitecaps keep changing their development strategy. This year we have the development team, a newly founded team that will play a series of friendlies throughout the year. Watching this team will be difficult as there don’t seem to be any plans to stream them and I don’t live in Vancouver most of the year (if anyone from the Whitecaps is reading, please play a friendly against UVic or the VISL all stars or something like that so I can actually write a proper match report). Nevertheless I will do my best to being you a monthly summary. I will also bring you the latest on Whitecaps players out on loan and i’m even looking to expand into a bit of academy coverage. Academy coverage brings the same problem as the u23s, it’s difficult to watch them. The only stats we get from the academy are goals and starts. So there might be a defensive midfielder totally killing it with 5 tackles a game and 90% passing accuracy but if he isn’t also scoring then we’re never really going to know. But I will try.

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