Canadian international David Edgar was at BMO Field to watch Tuesday’s Amway Canadian Championship first-leg final between the Whitecaps and Toronto FC.

On Wednesday, the out-of-contract defender will join the Caps for a training stint.

Vancouver (6-7-3 in MLS) has allowed 27 goals this season, tied for the worst defensive record in the Western Conference with Portland. Only New York City has conceded more.

Edgar, a 29-year-old from Kitchener, Ont., was released by Birmingham City of the English Championship at the end of the 2015-16 season.

He’d been on loan to Huddersfield Town in 2015 and, most recently, to League One Sheffield United, where he made 36 appearances.

Edgar — a versatile player who can slot in at centre-back, full-back or defensive midfield — told The Canadian Press recently that an MLS move was “definitely an option.”

He’s been capped 37 times for Canada and, earlier this month, captained Les Rouges in a friendly against Azerbaijan in Austria.

Along with the rest of his Canadian teammates, Edgar has experience playing at B.C. Place from the recent FIFA World Cup qualifiers, so he’ll know what to expect in Vancouver.

Since the Austria camp, he’s been back in Canada with his wife and daughter.

Caps coach Carl Robinson has said he’ll look at several players over the next month as the club prepares for the July transfer window.

Centre-back Daneil Cyrus, a Trinidad and Tobago international who’d spent the end of last season on loan with the Chicago Fire, trained with the Caps last week.

Aside from conceding goals too often this season, the Caps have lacked depth at centre-back because of Christian Dean’s injury woes. Dean has just returned to practice, having missed the whole season to a broken foot and a knee injury.

Veteran Pa-Modou Kah has also had some nagging leg injuries, so Andrew Jacobson, a defensive midfielder by trade, has been filling in at the back of late.

On Tuesday in Toronto, Robinson went with Kah and Kendall Waston in central defence.

Waston’s suspensions haven’t helped matters either. The Costa Rican international is currently serving his third ban of the MLS season (although he’s allowed to play in the Canadian championship) and that’s put a further strain on the Caps’ centre-back depth.

Second-year defender Tim Parker has been Robinson’s preferred choice along with Waston.

Edgar, who left Canada as a 14-year-old to join Newcastle United’s academy, made his first-team debut for the Magpies in 2006 and later joined Burnley on a four-year deal.

He signed with Birmingham on a free transfer from Burnley in the summer of 2014.

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