Vancouver Whitecaps FC win 2008 Cascadia Cup

[mlssoccer]

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=28d4f8eb-d209-44aa-8b17-574043433190

Caps show spunk before playoffs
Whitecaps 3 Sounders 2. Road win over Seattle garners a trophy

Marc WeberThe Province

Sunday, September 21, 2008

They did it! They brought home the Cup!
Not the Commissioner's Cup -- the trophy awarded to the first-place team in the United Soccer League's First Division -- mind you. Puerto Rico locked that up Friday night, rendering Saturday's Vancouver-Seattle clash -- a wild 3-2 Whitecaps win -- largely anticlimactic in terms of the standings.

[mlssoccer]

Cool video I found from the Southsiders board with post-match interviews and Vancouver fans who travelled to Seattle hoisting Cascadia cup (near the end of the video):

http://www.whitecapsfc.com/archive/feature_v_09200802.aspx (http://www.whitecapsfc.com/archive/feature_v_09200802.aspx)

[GOALSeattle]

http://goalseattle.com/photos/9-20-08/slides/1.jpg

[Johnnie Monster]

Photos courtesy of SoccerSue from Seattle...


http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh160/SoccerSue525/Whitecaps%202008/0920Southsiders3-1.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh160/SoccerSue525/Whitecaps%202008/0920SouthsiderswithCascadiaCup5-1.jpg

I'd say about 75 of us made the trip down - 50 on the bus, the rest of us were in cars.

Claudio's put some great photos on Facebook of the Cup being used as a ... well... cup. Looks like it was filled with champagne on the bus, followed by a giant slurpee at a convenience store on the way home.

[Nerroth]

It would be great if an interim series of matches could be arranged next year and afterwards, akin to the NCC, to keep the Cascadia Cup alive in the interim before the 'Caps and Timbers get into MLS...