The Vancouver Whitecaps Sentinel
Match20 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Vancouver Whitecaps's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vancouver Whitecaps has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Thomas Müller
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Eric Klein is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Andrés Cubas falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Vancouver Whitecaps
Ranko Veselinović was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match20 Mar 2027
Vancouver Whitecaps come up short against Real Salt Lake
Real Salt Lake left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Jeevan Badwal stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jeevan Badwal and Vancouver Whitecaps agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
The spotlight tightens on Rafael Baca
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Brian White leaves them behind him
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
In brief
- Player ratings An afternoon Rafael Baca will want back
- Market The shop window has Arun Basuljevic in it