HONOLULU, HAWAII – Vancouver Whitecaps FC will play their first preseason match of 2019 on Friday night, facing Japanese side V-Varen Nagasaki in the Pacific Rim Cup. The match will kick off at 10:15 p.m. PT (8:15 p.m. local) at Aloha Stadium and streaming information will be available on whitecapsfc.com.
“Every player is going to play 45 minutes only,” said Whitecaps FC head coach Marc Dos Santos. “The same thing is going to happen the other game. Then we’ll start giving 60, 70, 90s moving forward. What we want to see is how much are we growing in our tactical principles?