VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Alberta Soccer Association (Alberta Soccer) announced on Tuesday a new and expanded three-year player development partnership in the Whitecaps FC BMO Academy System that supports a local aligned pathway to benefit the game in Alberta. Programming in both Calgary and Edmonton will provide a direct link to Vancouver with the full-time Whitecaps FC Boys MLS Academy and the Girls Elite Regional Excel (REX) Super Centre program in partnership with BC Soccer.
As part of the partnership, Whitecaps FC will fund and operate high-performance youth soccer programming for players in the province of Alberta in collaboration with Alberta Soccer.