Whitecaps: Major League Soccer

Professional Sports Game Dept: There are at least seven languages spoken in the Whitecaps dressing room. The team is easily the most multicultural professional sports game in town. In comparison, the Canucks have players from five different countries - Canada, U.S., Denmark, Sweden and Finland - while the Lions' united nations also number five - U.S., Canada, Congo, Jamaica and Iran, according to Vancouver Sun. When these 28 players gather on the practice field in Burnaby, the soccer ball becomes a centrifugal force, pulling together the many cultural strands and playing styles. The game and the language of soccer are universal and welcome to the world. That's what you find on the Whitecaps playing field. Players come from 17 countries ranging from Hongcheon-gun, Korea, to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. In case you're keeping score at home, 17 leads Major League Soccer. The Seattle Sounders are next with 15. Some Whitecap players like Martin Bonjour from Argentina can barely speak English. Others like Long Tan from China have a halting knowledge of it acquired from a long sojourn through English-speaking countries on the soccer-playing circuit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.