In the past month, Philadelphia Union have faced New York Red Bulls twice. If you took the Red Bulls’ soccer philosophy and flipped it upside down in every way, you might get the Vancouver Whitecaps. Carl Robinson runs a team that, if they ever found themselves high pressing, it would be immediately followed by a record scratch and a narrator saying, “You’re probably wondering how I got here.”
Who are the Vancouver Whitecaps
If Red Bulls are about efficiency, the Whitecaps are about pragmatism. They play a system that is simple to organize and execute defensively, and they are determined to punish on the break.