VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced on Thursday that the club has signed Development Squad central midfielder and Academy product Patrick Metcalfe to an MLS Homegrown contract.
Metcalfe, along with Gianfranco Facchineri, become the 20th and 21st Whitecaps FC Academy products to sign an MLS Homegrown contract with the club, joining Thomas Hasal and Georges Mukumbilwa as Development Squad players who have moved up to the first team in the last year.
“This has been something I have been working towards my whole life,” said Metcalfe. “I would like to thank my parents and my brother for the support that they have always given me, and all the coaches along the way who have had a great impact in helping me earn this opportunity.