Ranko Veselinovic joined the Vancouver Whitecaps with a fair amount of hype around him. Serbian fans raved about him and Transfermarkt deemed him one of the ‘Caps most valuable players. He took some time to see the field due to visa issues but ‘Caps fans finally got their first look at him at the MLS is back tournament. He was awful.
Veselinovic struggled mightily to adapt to MLS in his first season. On October 5th of last year I published an article entitled “yikes” that looked at how the Whitecaps centre backs compared to other centre backs around the league.