VANCOUVER, BC – “Leadership is us.”
Those were the words Vancouver Whitecaps FC head coach Marc Dos Santos used this week when he met with the team ahead of Saturday’s season opener against Minnesota United FC at BC Place. Spanish midfielder Jon Erice will wear the armband on Saturday, he told the group, but Dos Santos doesn’t just want one captain.
He wants a team of them.
“One can wear the armband, but then we need a group of players that will hold themselves accountable,” Dos Santos told whitecapsfc.com. “You need more than one player to do that.