After missing the first half of the 2017 Major League Soccer season, due to a metatarsal injury, Yordy Reyna made his Vancouver Whitecaps debut Canada Day, playing 28 minutes in a 4-0 loss at Chicago Fire. In his next 1,000 minutes of MLS play, Reyna would score six goals (five were game winners) and add four assists.
Over the off-season, Reyna had a very public, and probably quite stressful, incident back in Peru in which he was accused of, at best, covering up the murder of a teenage girl, and at worst, committing a murder.