Vancouver Whitecaps Never Showed Commitment To Teitur Thordarson - 86 Forever
Unlike John Spencer and the Portland Timbers, Teitur Thordarson never seemed to be the guy the Vancouver Whitecaps really wanted to be their head coach. Sure, he was the man in charge during the final year at Division II, but as 86 Forever points out, the connection never seemed all the strong:
Personally, I think Teitur definitely could handle it. Or at least as well as Soehn, whose best results (detractors say) were achieved with Piotr Novak’s team. I won’t say this has been a great season. I will say the team has been seriously, sometimes astonishingly unlucky to have the record it has. They’ve earned at least two wins and probably three, which isn’t great but is, at least, reasonable for a club which has been as injury-savaged as this one. Teitur isn’t without his opponents in the Whitecaps supporters groups who accuse him of tactical rigidity and trying to make his players fit the system rather than the system fit the players. But he’s certainly respected by more fans than not.
What seems to worry 86 Forever more than anything else is the unflattering comparisons to Canadian rival Toronto FC, who is on their sixth head coach in five seasons. Even that moribund franchise gave Mo Johnston a season before kicking him up to the front office, though.
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