Real Salt Lake travels north of the border to face Vancouver Whitecaps FC for the second time this season. Here are three things to know about Vancouver.
Once Got “86ed”
Vancouver has been a soccer hotbed since 1974 when the Whitecaps first joined the North American Soccer League. With a slew of Canadian Soccer Hall of Famers, the Whitecaps were among the top teams in the league throughout the NASL’s tenure as top league in the U.S. and Canada, winning Soccer Bowl in 1979. When the league folded in 1984, Vancouver was without pro soccer for just one season before the Vancouver 86ers joined the Canadian Soccer League in 1986 – the name commemorating Vancouver’s founding in 1886.