Whitecap Carlos Marquez named PDL’s Player of the Week 10 May 2012 The league announced the honour on Thursday, nearly a week after Marquez set up Michael Boxall’s opening goal and then scored two of his own as the Whitecaps U-23 side beat the Kitsap Pumas 3-0 in their season opener.
Le Toux, Whitecaps, beat down FC Edmonton’s brave resistance 10 May 2012 For 75 minutes of Wednesday’s second leg of the club’s Amway Canadian Championship final against the Vancouver Whitecaps, things looked good for FC Edmonton to be Cinderella at the BC Place ball.
Win over Earthquakes shows off the Whitecaps’ depth 6 May 2012 He left it late, but Eric Hassli’s 94th minute stoppage-time winner gave the Vancouver Whitecaps a 2-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes Saturday night at BC Place, sending the 19,271 fans home happy.
Blame FCE’s losses, not City of Edmonton, for poor attendance at Commonwealth Stadium 3 May 2012 The number was painful to read, painful to report. In a concrete monolith of a stadium that’s built to seat more than 60,000, just 2,777 people came to see FC Edmonton play the Vancouver Whitecaps in their first leg of the Amway Canadian Championship semifinal.
FCE learns some tough lessons from the Whitecaps 3 May 2012 “When you see the game, you see the difference in the way we play,” said FCE coach Harry Sinkgraven after the match. “They are more mature, you can see that. In battles, they are stronger. We lost too many individual battles.”
Wondolowski wins Player of the Month honour 2 May 2012 Chris Wondolowski was the first man in MLS to score on the Vancouver Whitecaps this season — and it’s one of the reasons he was selected the league’s Player of the Month for April.
Whitecaps have done their homework on FC Edmonton 2 May 2012 While Wednesday’s first leg of the Amway Canadian Championship semifinal marks the first time that FC Edmonton and the Whitecaps will face each other competitively, Vancouver coach Martin Rennie is all too familiar with the Eddies.
FCE focused on not allowing Whitecaps to get an away goal 1 May 2012 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.
Whitecaps steal three points at Crew Stadium 29 Apr 2012 Call it a smash-and-grab. Call it larceny. But there was definitely a sense that the Vancouver Whitecaps left the Ohio capital Saturday night with three points that they had simply stolen from the Columbus Crew.
FC Edmonton boasts 55 per cent of the Can-con in the Canadian Championship 27 Apr 2012 FC Edmonton accounts for 55 per cent of the domestic content in the upcoming Amway Canadian Championship.