C.Ronaldo
03-03-2011, 09:26 AM
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/961530--porter-prefers-to-make-an-impact
Kyle Porter prefers to make an Impact
The Vancouver Whitecaps of the Major Soccer League have reluctantly given up on 21-year-old Kyle Porter of Mississauga, who wants to play soccer in Montreal.
In an interview with The Vancouver Province, Whitecaps Coach Teitur Thordarson said the young winger-forward left the Caps' training camp two weeks ago, hoping to sign with the Montreal Impact.
Thordarson said Montreal was offering more money, but Porter's MSL rights are held by Vancouver.
Montreal will join the league for next season, in 2012.
"We offered him a contract and he didn't want that," Thordarson told The Province.
"He was unhappy with the financial part of it but we couldn't do otherwise. It's a little bit strange for me. The decision must have been taken because he felt he had a bigger opportunity to play in Montreal than here, which is impossible to say until we start this (season)" the coach said.
Thordarson said Porter did well at the end of last season and, "I really thought that he would develop to become a good player. We tried to get him to understand that we really wanted to keep him here."
Porter would likely have earned just over $32,000 with the Whitecaps.
Porter, who has been training in Arizona, has not commented on the situation.
The rising star earned a spot on Soccer Canada’s roster for the 2009 CONCACAF Under-20 championship in Trinidad & Tobago.
Between September 2006 and May 2007, he earned six caps with Canada’s U-17 national team.
jstewart@mississauga.net
Kyle Porter prefers to make an Impact
The Vancouver Whitecaps of the Major Soccer League have reluctantly given up on 21-year-old Kyle Porter of Mississauga, who wants to play soccer in Montreal.
In an interview with The Vancouver Province, Whitecaps Coach Teitur Thordarson said the young winger-forward left the Caps' training camp two weeks ago, hoping to sign with the Montreal Impact.
Thordarson said Montreal was offering more money, but Porter's MSL rights are held by Vancouver.
Montreal will join the league for next season, in 2012.
"We offered him a contract and he didn't want that," Thordarson told The Province.
"He was unhappy with the financial part of it but we couldn't do otherwise. It's a little bit strange for me. The decision must have been taken because he felt he had a bigger opportunity to play in Montreal than here, which is impossible to say until we start this (season)" the coach said.
Thordarson said Porter did well at the end of last season and, "I really thought that he would develop to become a good player. We tried to get him to understand that we really wanted to keep him here."
Porter would likely have earned just over $32,000 with the Whitecaps.
Porter, who has been training in Arizona, has not commented on the situation.
The rising star earned a spot on Soccer Canada’s roster for the 2009 CONCACAF Under-20 championship in Trinidad & Tobago.
Between September 2006 and May 2007, he earned six caps with Canada’s U-17 national team.
jstewart@mississauga.net