FRISCO, Tex. — Kekuta Manneh has travelled to Edmonton, Toronto and Montreal during his short time as a soccer professional with the Vancouver Whitecaps.

But in one sense, the Gambian native has also been all over Canada. He’s marvelled at the power of Niagara Falls, swept over the wheat fields of the Prairies and the glacier fields of the Rockies and peaked in on the quaint harbours of the Maritimes.

And he’s done all that by venturing no further than Vancouver. You see Manneh is a regular on the Fly Over Canada virtual flight ride. “I probably did it five times this summer,” he says with a big laugh.

“It’s really cool,” adds Manneh says of the popular attraction at Canada Place. “I haven’t been to a lot of places in Canada, so it’s like ‘Whoa!’ It feels like I’m right there.”

As he talks about it, his eyes up light up in wonderment. He may turn 21 in a couple of months and he may be nearly three seasons into his career, but his nickname of ‘Scooter’ is apropos. He’s still a kid at heart.

On Monday, Manneh made a different flight, one to the south in returning ‘home’ to Texas for a crucial, late-season MLS game. Manneh, whose mother passed away when he was 10, spent his mid-teens in Austin, three hours south of Dallas, after he made a soccer exchange trip from Gambia and decided to stay in the U.S.

He’s hoping the trip to Texas and a visit from his adoptive family in Austin will be the spark to get his roller-coaster of a season back on track.

Manneh, given a regular role as a starting winger in 2015, had just one goal and one assist in his first 14 games but was making big strides defensively. Then he went on a mini-tear — three goals in four games, followed by a run of three assists in four games. It was a sign that his ability to read the play was improving and that he could be a distributor.

But as the Caps have slumped recently, so, too, has Manneh. He hasn’t scored in seven games and has just two goals over his last 13, both of them coming in a 4-3 loss at Sporting Kansas City.

He is still young and should be full of pep and energy, but Manneh admits the long season has worn him down a bit, particularly with the team’s spate of recent injuries keeping him in the lineup.

His 2,249 minutes over 30 games, 26 of them starts, are twice the number of minutes he played last season.

“I’ve been getting a little bit tired and it doesn’t help with everyone being injured,” said Manneh. “The coach can’t really rotate the squad.

“I’ve been starting consistently and playing all those games is starting to catch up with me. I just haven’t felt sharp. You think the energy is there, but sometimes your body doesn’t allow you to do what you normally do when you’re exhausted.”

Head coach Carl Robinson said the eight-month season has been tough on some players, particularly young ones not accustomed to big minutes.