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Ref takes centre stage in Portland-Vancouver clash

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Martin MacMahon
– 05/19/2013

Camilo

Camilo

The Vancouver Whitecaps conceded late to Jose Valencia in controversial circumstances on Saturday, as they drew 2-2 with the 10-man Portland Timbers in front of 19,823 at BC Place.

On the game-tying play, in the 84th minute, the substitute appeared to bring a long ball from Will Johnson down with his hands – match officials were asked by a pool reporter what they saw on the play, and responded that from their view Valencia brought the ball down with his chest.

Replays proved otherwise, but Whitecaps head coach Martin Rennie seemed dissatisfied with the officiating both ways.

“I thought it was a hand ball,” Rennie remarked when asked about Valencia’s equalizing goal, before later addressing Portland’s red card, in which Futty Danso collided with Camilo as last man back. “Whether it was a red card or not – I don’t necessarily think it was – both players were running together so that was a little harsh.

“Sometimes when a team goes down a man, it doesn’t necessarily help you.”
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Whitecaps recall Mitchell from FC Edmonton for Portland match

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Steven Sandor
– 05/16/2013

Carlyle Mitchell

Carlyle Mitchell

The Vancouver Whitecaps have issued a one-game recall for defender Carlyle Mitchell.

The Trinidad and Tobago central defender has been a regular starter for FC Edmonton this season. He is on loan to the Eddies for the 2013 campaign. But, with the Whitecaps in roster difficulty with the suspension of Johnny Leveron for this Saturday’s match against Portland, and the Eddies being on a bye weekend in NASL, the conditions were perfect for a Mitchell recall.

FCE confirmed that Mitchell is scheduled to return to the Eddies on Sunday.
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Whitecaps’ defence-first strategy pays off in Montreal; Brovsky breaks nose and “maybe” his cheekbone

By
Mike Wyman
– 05/16/2013

Jeb Brovsky: Injured after collision with Jordan Harvey

Jeb Brovsky: Injured after collision with Jordan Harvey

The first leg of the Amway Canadian Championship final finished in a scoreless draw as the Vancouver Whitecaps played the Montreal Impact in front of an announced crowd of just over 12,000 fans at Saputo Stadium.

“It was a tight game tonight. Montreal has started the season very well with some excellent results. Tonight I think we did a good job of shutting them down, had a couple half chances ourselves,” said Vancouver head coach Martin Rennie.

“It would have been nice to have stolen one but overall we’ve given ourselves a good chance going into the second game. The game’s still alive. We get 10 days off before the next leg. It’ll be nice to be playing at home at BC Place but tonight I feel as if it was close game.”

The visiting side fielded a defensive lineup and left with the result for which it had hoped, to keep the home side off the scoreboard and return to their home pitch to try to prevail in Vancouver on the 29th of this month.

“I feel like on the road we’ve been a little bit too open. At times we’ve played quite well but our results haven’t been as good as I would have liked on the road so I felt we should become more difficult to play against,” Rennie opined. “I think the players did their jobs tonight. They made the game more compact and we weren’t as open and easy to play against.”
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Whitecaps lose Leveron to suspension: San Jose’s Chavez has ban reduced

By
Steven Sandor
– 05/15/2013

Johnny Leveron

Johnny Leveron

We love to complain about how referees continually sabotage the efforts of our favourite teams, and then look away when they make calls in our teams’ favours.

So, Whitecaps fans have something to chew on Wednesday morning. Would the Caps have been able to overcome the Galaxy by a 3-1 count Saturday had Johnny Leveron been sent off for his early two-footed scissor challenge on the Galaxy’s Jose Villarreal?

Leveron was given a yellow for the sliding foul he committed early in that match. But the MLS Disciplinary Committee ruled on it Wednesday, and deemed that it should have been red. Leveron has been suspended one game for a reckless challenge that endangered his opponent, and will miss the May 18 match against the Timbers.
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Bruin named MLS Player of the Week: The 11′s nod went to Teibert

By
Steven Sandor
– 05/13/2013

Russell Teibert

Russell Teibert

Most of the time, the bodies of work we look at are fairly consistent when voting for an MLS Player of the Week.

Most of the time, we judge players on the basis that they each play a single match on the weekend.

But in the odd weeks where some teams play two games because of the midweek schedule and others play one — that makes it difficult.

This week, Houston Dynamo forward Will Bruin won the Player of the Week vote. He scored twice and added two assists in a midweek 4-0 win over D.C. United, but didn’t do much in a 1-0 loss at home Sunday to Sporting Kansas City. And that brings up an uncomfortable question: Does a “meh” game on Sunday weigh down what was a spectacular midweek effort?
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Russell to the rescue: Canadian has game to remember for the Whitecaps

By
Martin MacMahon
– 05/12/2013

Russell Teibert

Russell Teibert

The seven-game MLS winless streak is finally over for the Vancouver Whitecaps, thanks to a two-goal performance from Canadian youngster Russell Teibert, who scored his first professional goals.

And the Whitecaps did it against the defending MLS Cup champion Los Angelees Galaxy, a team they had previously failed to beat in five prior matchups, defeating the visitors 3-1 at BC Place in front of 21,000 fans.

The Niagara Falls, Ont. native hit a cracking left-footed effort in the 63rd minute after a nice set-up from Nigel Reo-Coker, curling his shot from outside the area past a sprawling Carlo Cudicini.

The 20 year old then followed that up by bursting through into the area 13 minutes later, to finish a play set up by Gershon Koffie, who cut back near the endline before passing into the path of Teibert.

“It’s a blur,” Teibert said of scoring his first goal. “I don’t know what I was thinking. I was just overwhelmed.”
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Zusi named MLS Player of the Week: The 11 selected Joao Plata

By
Steven Sandor
– 05/06/2013

Graham Zusi

Graham Zusi

With a goal and an assist in a 4-0 demolition of Chivas USA Saturday, Sporting Kansas City midfielder Graham Zusi did enough to earn the MLS Player of the Week nod.

In what was a very scattered vote, Zusi got 10 first-place votes out of the 27 ballots cast by the North American Soccer Reporters. With no player really having a career-best game or a head-turner, the voters had no clear consensus.

But, like a Canadian election. Zusi got the prize despite earning only a little more than a third of the vote.
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MLS salary update: More Canadians working in the league, but making less

By
Steven Sandor
– 05/06/2013

Dejan Jakovic: Now the No. 2 highest paid Canadian in MLS.

Dejan Jakovic: Now the No. 2 highest paid Canadian in MLS.

More Canadians are working in MLS this season than in 2012 — but those new jobs aren’t on the high-pay end of the scale.

The MLS Players’ Union released its salary update Monday, the day when the layers of secrecy are peeled away from the contracts that have been signed by the league’s players.

And what have we learned? That there are five Canadian players making US$35,125 this season, while eight more are on the books for base salaries of $46,500 each. Of those, only DC United’s Kyle Porter and TFC’s Kyle Bekker were able to squeeze some extra dough out of their deals to get a little bit more than their base contracts.

With Julian de Guzman now playing out the string with relegated Bundesliga 2. side Jahn Regensburg, he gives up his No. 1 spot on the Canadian rich list. Dwayne De Rosario, with a base number of $600,000, now takes over as the highest paid Canadian in MLS.
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Whitecaps’ Lee: “I think today we lost because of me”

By
Randy Davis
– 05/05/2013

Young-Pyo Lee

Young-Pyo Lee

Coach Martin Rennie was not a happy man following his squad’s 2-0 loss to Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday night. After coming off an important win on Wednesday against FC Edmonton to move into the Finals of the Canadian Championship, his team had a listless performance on the road in Salt Lake City.

However, Rennie was relatively pleased with how his team started as they remained compact and found a few countering chances but failed to score.

“I think the first half was a good road performance,” said Rennie. “We played quite well. We created some good chances. We didn’t really look at any danger. So it was a solid half from us, but obviously that’s only halfway through the game.”

To be fair, it was a rather boring, uneventful half, but when you are on the road that’s not a bad result. Both sides really lacked any intensity in the opening stanza. The only player for either side who showed a lot of fire was Nigel Reo-Coker, who was very aggressive in the defensive half of midfield, picking up a yellow card for a tackle in the 19th minute and remaining physical for the remainder of the half.
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Whitecaps finally ink Aminu Abdallah

By
Steven Sandor
– 05/02/2013

Aminu Abdallah

Aminu Abdallah

The Vancouver Whitecaps have (finally) added 19-year-old Ghanaian midfielder Aminu Abdallah to the roster.

Abdallah has been in the Whitecaps camp so long, no one could blame a fan of the team for thinking that the players was actually signed by the team weeks ago. But, no, the announcement was made Thursday.

Abdallah has already made six appearances for the Whitecaps Reserves, and has registerd a goal and an assist.
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