We Need to Talk About the Whitecaps’ Goalkeepers

Photo by Christopher Morris - Corbis/Getty ImagesThe Vancouver Whitecaps won a trophy this week, for the first time since 2015. It was nice to get one over on Vancouver’s big rivals and be able to taunt Toronto media people on Twitter. But if that success (and fun online taunting) is going to continue, the Canadian championship can’t be the height of Vancouver’s ambitions. I have talked a lot about how the Whitecaps’ window to win something, in this case, we could be talking about at least one of the CONCACAF Champions League, Supporter’s Shield, or MLS Cup, is in the next 2-3 years. The Whitecaps have a core of players who can achieve that if they have the right supporting cast. The need to build the right supporting cast brings us to the topic of this article: The Whitecap’s goalkeeping really sucks.

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