September has just wrapped up and that means that the Vancouver Whitecaps academy teams are back in action! I took a couple months off from these articles because there just wasn’t enough happening but now they’re back! So watch out for monthly reports on how the ‘Caps youngsters and loanees are doing every month. Never make an ass of yourself again by asking something like “where’s Simon Colyn” or “Wait, there’s more than one Baldisimo?” Everything you need to know will be right here (except for a bunch of important stats like, say, assists, because they USSDA doesn’t publish those).

Anthony Blondell:

Blondell has played 36 minutes since July. He has a guaranteed contract for 2020. Starting to think dropping a mill on a 24, now 25, year old who had one good season in Venezuela may have been a bad call.

Development Squad:

The development squad, for the first time in quite a while, played some games. They went on a trip to Mexico and played 3 friendly matches.

Whitecaps Reserves 2-2 CF Monterrey Reserves

Lineup: Thomas Hasal; Georges Mukumbilwa (T-Boy Fayia 63’), Gianfranco Facchineri, Nathan Demian, Gabriel Escobar; Damiano Pecile, Patrick Metcalfe; Vasco Fry, Emiliano Brienza, Kam Habibullah (Massud Habibullah 45’); Thomas Raimbault (Owen Antoniuk 74’)

Goals: Raimbault, Brienza

Assists: Metcalfe

Here are the goals:

.@emilianobrienza also found the back of the net after some fantastic work in midfield by Patrick Metcalfe.#VWFC pic.twitter.com/pP3MfXsHpq — Vancouver Whitecaps FC (@WhitecapsFC) September 12, 2019

Whitecaps Reserves 0-0 Tecnológico de Monterrey

Lineup: Thomas Hasal; Georges Mukumbilwa (Cristian Campagna 30’), Gianfranco Facchineri, Nathan Demian, Gabriel Escobar (Christopher Lee HT); Damiano Pecile, Patrick Metcalfe; Vasco Fry (Emiliano Brienza 75’), Emiliano Brienza (Simon Colyn 55’), Owen Antoniuk (Kam Habibullah 30’); Thomas Raimbault (Massud Habibullah 70’)

Wait, does Mexico have varsity teams that feed into the professional game like in the states and Canada? If not shouldn’t the development squad be brushing competition like this aside pretty easily?

Whitecaps Reserves 0-1 Tigres UANL Reserves

Lineup: Thomas Hasal; Georges Mukumbilwa, Gianfranco Facchineri, Nathan Demian, Gabriel Escobar (Christopher Lee 70’); Damiano Pecile (Owen Antoniuk 70’), Patrick Metcalfe; Vasco Fry, Emiliano Brienza, Simon Colyn (Kam Habibullah 70’); Thomas Raimbault (Massud Habibullah 35’) (Cristian Campagna 70’)

Development Squad Stats:

The Whitecaps are still treating all of the games played in 2019 as part of one season. This doesn’t really make sense to me because there was a big break and a bunch of the players have left the organization or graduated to the first team. For the sake of accuracy I won’t count goals and assists by Theo Bair who is pretty clearly a first team player at this point, David Norman Jr. who has been traded, or Jefferson Alade who is now playing university soccer.

Goals:

K. Habibullah: 5

Brienza: 4

Raimbault: 3

Assists:

Cambridge: 4

Pecile, K. Habibullah, Brienza: 2

Academy:

Top Academy Scorers:

U19s (1 game):

Brienza: 1

U17s (4 games):

Reas-Do, Umar, White, Herbert : 1

U15s (4 games):

Comisa: 5

Azmitia-Sherwood: 2

Mekonnen: 1