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The recent changes made by Martin Rennie, Scottish manager of the Vancouver Whitecaps in MLS, have been questioned by many but only two games after the flurry of sales and trades it must be said that he is shaping the team for the better. The Vancouver Whitecaps really turned things around this year after finishing dead last in their debut MLS season. At the midseason point they sat very comfortably in a Western play-off position, hovering between 3rd and 4th behind Real Salt Lake and San Jose, and although they struggled to score regularly despite possessing Sebastien Le Toux, Eric Hassli, Camilo, and Davide Chiumiento, their defense has been one of the best in the league. The partnership of Jay DeMerit and Martin Bonjour in the center has been solid while Alain Rochat and Young-Pyo Lee are the best right and left backs in the league. The South Korean has been particularly impressive since signing for the Whitecaps in the offseason and is regularly error-free in his judgment, tackling, passing, touch, movement, and so on. Barry Robson’s arrival from Middlesbrough had been sorted back when the season started, although he was not to join up with the Whitecaps until July, [...]
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