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FCE focused on not allowing Whitecaps to get an away goal

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Steven Sandor
– 05/01/2012

Paul Hamilton takes a shot on FCE keeper David Monsalve during Tuesday's training session at Commonwealth Stadium,

Keep it clean.

That’s the prevailing message from FC Edmonton’s final training session before Wednesday’s Amway Canadian Championship semifinal first leg against the Vancouver Whitecaps.

The Whitecaps are bringing pretty much a full-strength lineup to Edmonton outside of midfielder Camilo and defender Jay DeMerit — who were both omitted from the Whitecaps’ team sheet for the game. FC Edmonton coach Harry Sinkgraven conceded that the MLS side is bigger and stronger than FCE, whose mobile-but-small backline struggled in its last NASL match against Minnesota’s six-foot-plus strikers. So, for Edmonton, the key will be to focus on the likes of Eric Hassli, Sebastien Le Toux and Omar Salgado — depending on who Vancouver chooses to start — and keeping them off the scoresheet.

FC Edmonton coach Harry Sinkgraven said that he told his squad of his exploits in European Cup matches.

“Twice in first game, we won 1-0. If you keep a clean sheet in the home game, and just score one goal away from home, then the opposition has to make three goals,” Sinkgraven said Tuesday.
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Vancouver earns a gritty victory over FC Dallas

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Martin MacMahon
– 04/22/2012

Camilo: Goal in the 11th minute

It wasn’t pretty, but the Vancouver Whitecaps scrapped out a 1-0 win over FC Dallas in front of 18,027 fans at BC Place Saturday night, to claim their first win since March 17.

Camilo, the club’s 2011 Player of the Year, was the difference maker, scoring a cracking left-footed goal in the 11th minute to give the ‘Caps their third win of the season.

It was the Brazilian’s first start of April, after battling a quadriceps issue which had restricted him to two substitute appearances in the three matches since his injury.

“I have chances – today I had one chance before [the goal],” Camilo told The 11 following the match, referencing a good chance he had just four minutes in. “After, Lee [Young-Pyo] gave me the pass, and I dribbled and scored. This is good for us.”
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After loss in San Jose, Whitecaps continue to be a difficult team to read

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Steven Sandor
– 04/08/2012

Chris Wondolowski

All season long, the Vancouver Whitecaps performances can be described as “glass half-full, half-empty.”

Yes, the Whitecaps didn’t surrender a goal and were undefeated through their first four games. But their offence has been stagnant — and the team has played what has to be considered the easiest schedule in MLS out of any of the 19 clubs. And points dropped to Eastern clubs like D.C. United and Philadelphia could come back to haunt the Caps at the end of the season.

Just like the rest of the season, Saturday’s match could be talked about in that “glass half-full, half-empty vein.” The Whitecaps, kept the San Jose Earthquakes scoreline at zero for 68 minutes, and set a new MLS record for longest shutout streak from the beginning of a season at 428 minutes. Then the Caps imploded, giving up three second-half goals to the Quakes thanks to a series of mistakes in the back that’d have you thinking you were watching the 2011 edition of the team.

The Earthquakes beat the Whitecaps 3-1, and Vancouver is now 2-1-2 (or 2-2-1 if you prefer the European way of doing the tables),

But, like the previous wins and ties, this doesn’t offer much of a clue to what kind of team coach Martin Rennie has assembled in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

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Whitecaps create little in dull stalemate with D.C. United

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Steven Sandor
– 03/25/2012

Joe Cannon: Great save on Hamdi Salihi

The Vancouver Whitecaps have yet to lose this MLS season.

But, over the last two matches, the Whitecaps have created just one goal — and one decent scoring chance. That came on the corner kick that allowed Jay DeMerit to head home to beat Chivas last week.

On Saturday night at B.C. Place, D.C. United keeper Joe Willis had his name called not for any spectacular save that needed to be made, but for his collision with Alain Rochat that forced the Whitecaps’ defender to leave the match, favouring his left leg.

In Saturday’s 0-0 draw with D.C United, the Whitecaps created nothing at all. Despite having Camilo and Davide Chiumiento on the wings, and the firepower of Sebastien Le Toux and Eric Hassli up top, the Whitecaps didn’t trouble Willis at all. This was an ugly tearjerker of a game, with the ball stuck in midfield, with both teams cancelling each other out. Read the rest of this entry »

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Marsch: For Impact, one loss does not a season make

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Mike Wyman
– 03/11/2012

Jesse Marsch

After Saturday’s 2-0 MLS-opening loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps at B.C. Place, Montreal coach Jesse Marsch declared that one game does not a season make.

“If we had won tonight it’s not as if we’re a team already and because we lost it’s not like we have to start all over.”

Montreal’s players seemed slow to react and tentative on many occasions, appearing indecisive when playing the ball, with the delays allowing the Whitecaps to ultimately counter their visitors effectively with the offensively minded. Set plays were less than effective and their ensemble play showed that it is not yet at the level it has to be for the Montrealers to compete in their initial MLS season.
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Vancouver’s Renniessance overwhelms Impact in MLS opener

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Steven Sandor
– 03/11/2012

It took just three minutes and seven seconds for the Renniessance to officially take hold in Vancouver.

That’s how long after the kickoff of the MLS season opener that it took for the new and improved Vancouver Whitecaps to stick the ball in the back of the Montreal Impact net.

After taking a perfectly weighted headed flick from French compatriot Eric Hassli, Sebastien Le Toux, the MLS star forward acquired from Philadelphia in the off-season, used a deft left-footed chip to push the ball into space behind Impact defender Tyson Wahl, ran onto the ball and then slid the ball past keeper Donovan Ricketts.

For Vancouver, it was a dream start in front of 21,000 fans at B.C. Place. For the Montreal Impact, it was a rude welcome to MLS.

“The disappointing part is that it happened so quickly into the game that we didn’t give ourselves a chance for the game to settle in and we are already down 1-0,” said Impact coach Jesse Marsch.
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The 11′s super-duper MLS 2012 season preview

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Steven Sandor
– 03/07/2012

The 11’s Steven Sandor, Mark Polishuk and Aman Dhanoa held a virtual round table, discussing how they foresaw the 2012 MLS season.

Will the Galaxy repeat? Will any of the three Canadian teams make the playoffs? Who will be the MVP?

We tallied up our votes, and came up with our list of how the teams will finish, who will win MLS Cup and who will be the league’s MVP. No need to play the season, now. We have it all figured out.
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Whitecaps edge TFC reserves, Impact downs Hacken

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Steven Sandor
– 03/04/2012

Camilo

Toronto FC used a lineup filled with reserves, kids and trialists. But, how close was the Vancouver Whitecaps team that coach Martin Rennie started Saturday in the final of the preseason Walt Disney World Classic to the squad we will see face the Montreal Impact next weekend in MLS First Kick?

The Whitecaps won the preseason tournament with a 1-0 result over Toronto FC, as Camilo weaved through a group of TFC teenagers and then scored from a very tight angle.

But the result was expected. With Toronto FC playing the Los Angeles Galaxy in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarter-final in midweek, coach and technical director Aron Winter gave any player you’d expect to see at the Rogers Centre — either in the starting XI or on the bench — the chance to fly home early.

The only two players you’d consider to be regulars who saw time in the Disney final — forward Nick Soolsma and midfielder Eric Avila — aren’t eligible to play on Wednesday against the Galaxy. Avila, who appeared earlier in the CCL with FC Dallas, is Cup-tied, while Soolsma is suspended.
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Robson is another big-ticket item to add to Whitecaps’ budget

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Steven Sandor
– 02/16/2012

The Vancouver Whitecaps are ready to once again open the chequebook.

The team announced Thursday that Scottish international Barry Robson will join the team in July as a Designated Player. Because Robson will join at the halfway mark of the MLS campaign, his cap will be US$167,500 in 2012.

“I am very excited to be joining Whitecaps FC and to continue my career in Major League Soccer,” said Robson in a release issued by the Whitecaps. “I am impressed by the quality of MLS and Vancouver as a club. They have a passionate fan base and a fantastic stadium in BC Place. My family and I are also looking forward to our move to Canada and the beautiful city of Vancouver this summer.”

Robson will finish the season at English Championship side Middlesbrough. He has scored 18 times and added 16 assists for ‘Boro since joining the club in January 2010.
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Camilo scores 35 seconds after kickoff, but Sounders draw Whitecaps

By
Steven Sandor
– 02/07/2012

Camilo

Still celebrating his renegotiated contract with the Whitecaps, Camilo scored Vancouver’s first goal of the preseason just 35 seconds into the new campaign.

Alas, the Whitecaps couldn’t score again for the next 120 minutes, and settled for a draw in an extended game with the Seattle Sounders in Arizona.

Camilo scored almost immediately after the opening kickoff, set up by Atiba Harris. Harris has been almost a forgotten factor with the Whitecaps, even though he’s re-signed for the 2012 season. He enjoyed a great start to the 2011 season, with two goals and three assists through his first five starts but was sidelined by knee trouble. Now, with Camilo, Designated Player Eric Hassli and Sebastien Le Toux as part of the attack, Harris is rarely mentioned.
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