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Vancouver Whitecaps: Prediction special
At this time of the year the world of Major League Soccer is awash with “so called” experts making “so called” predictions about the “so called” future. But what do they know of the future who only the...
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Vancouver Whitecaps fall at the first
Let’s start with the good things that may come out of the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 loss to Toronto FC at BC Place on Saturday. Last season Toronto beat Seattle in Seattle in the opening game of the...
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Vancouver Whitecaps put out the Fire
Let’s start with the reality check; the Chicago Fire are not very good. At least they weren’t in the 1-0 defeat to the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday looking more like a collection of individuals who...
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Vancouver Whitecaps leave it late again
The Vancouver Whitecaps have already amassed more points on the road in 2015 than they did throughout the entirety of the inaugural season in MLS. That’s a low bar to set of course but, whichever way...
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Whitecaps trio tops for MLS team of the week
The Vancouver Whitecaps, fresh off Saturday’s extra-last-minute (literally) win over Orlando City SC, had three of their players named to Major League Soccer’s team of the week today. Striker Octavio...
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Whitecaps’ Octavio Rivero named MLS player of the month
The Vancouver Whitecaps are getting a very early, positive return on their investment in star striker Octavio Rivero, who today was named Major League Soccer’s player of the month for March. The...
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Has the real Pedro Morales stood up?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pedro Morales had his best game of the season in the 2-0 victory of the LA Galaxy on Saturday. He gradually grew into his performance and when the final...
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Vancouver Whitecaps turn into DC comics
Let’s start with the good news; it’s much easier to write about a team when they’ve lost than it is when they’ve won. What’s that? Okay, from your point of view there is no good news, just bad news and...
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Vancouver Whitecaps bring the sun down on the Union
Well that was just what the doctor ordered (although any physician prescribing a three nil victory over the Philadelphia Union is probably too close to the “quack” end of the medical spectrum to be...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: What did we learn?
The three nil victory over the Philadelphia Union was the Vancouver Whitecaps most convincing score line of the season so far but can we take away from the game? Cristian Techera will score goals- his...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: What’s the story?
Walter Fisher’s philosophy of the “Narrative Paradigm” argues that human beings, by their very nature, are storytellers who can only understand the world through terms of narrative. A corollary of this...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: Masters of Suspense
Alfred Hitchcock once said that whereas having a bomb explode in a movie provided the audience with just thirty seconds of excitement an unexploded bomb gave them a full thirty minutes of tension. The...
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Vancouver Whitecaps find the right balance
If there’s been one constant during Carl Robinson’s tenure as coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps it’s that the system takes precedence over players. He would rather fit a roundish peg into a squarish...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: We need to talk about Octavio
Six games into the season the received wisdom was united in unanimity. Carl Robinson had unearthed a gem of a striker in Octavio Rivero and the only real question mark hanging over the young...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: The Genealogy of Morales
The news that Pedro Morales is almost back to full fitness and likely to feature in the Vancouver Whitecaps’ game against San Jose at BC Place on Sunday afternoon (even if it will likely be in a cameo...
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Vancouver Whitecaps unshaken by the Earthquakes
You want to know how you can tell if the Vancouver Whitecaps had a fairly comfortable win? It’s when you don’t really notice that Matias Laba is on the field. And the 3-1 victory over the San Jose...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: August and Everything After
There’s an argument to be made that the Vancouver Whitecaps have actually benefited from absences caused by injury, suspension and international call ups this season. The early season injury to Mauro...
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Vancouver Whitecaps: The Ballad of Pedro and Octavio
So I was hanging around my favourite Vancouver eatery earlier today (the pick-up window at Wendy’s) when the news broke that Pedro Morales had extended his contract with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Maybe...
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Vancouver Whitecaps face the two most important games of the season
Well at least the two most important in the coming weeks anyway. Saturday’s game against FC Dallas at BC Place will tell us just how the Whitecaps have reacted to that gut wrenching defeat in Kansas...
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Vancouver Whitecaps are the Kings of Canada!
And so after many a heartbreak and many a heartache the Vancouver Whitecaps have finally won The Voyageurs Cup. They earned the right to the trophy by beating the Montreal Impact by two goals to nil...
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