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Calm, cool and collected.

That’s how Calgary’s brand new professional soccer team playing in its first match not against its own colours looked Tuesday afternoon.

Cavalry FC played host to the Vancouver Whitecaps U23 team, taking down the visitors by a score of 2-0.

The score isn’t what mattered, though.

What did, is that Cavalry FC played as clean a game as they could at their southeast training facility.

“It was a good exercise (and) what we need. We’re only in Week 3 of our training camp, we needed a competitive game,” said Cavalry GM/head coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr. after the match. “They’re young, fit and ahead of us in the schedule. It was exactly what we needed at this time.

“We focused a lot on our habits. We’ve only worked for two weeks what we do in possession, out of possession (and) we haven’t done a ton of tactics or finishing. What we have done, is install what we do. We all hunt together when we don’t have it and we want to be brave when we do get that ball.”