Now that he’s been spotted working out at the training facility, it seems like it’s time to post this. The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed 28-year-old Austrian International midfielder Alessandro Schöpf on a free transfer. Schöpf has an excellent pedigree and provides a very different dynamic to Vancouver’s current midfielders.
Schöpf was snatched out of Austrian youth football by Bayern Munich. He was a star for their various youth teams and scored a lot of goals for their reserves in the german 4th tier. But he never broke through to the first team. He joined Nuremberg in the 2.