{"id":31753,"date":"2022-08-11T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=31753"},"modified":"2022-08-11T20:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:46:47","slug":"york-united-forward-joins-vancouver-whitecaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/york-united-forward-joins-vancouver-whitecaps\/","title":{"rendered":"York United forward joins Vancouver Whitecaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a memorable time donning the York United colours for Lowell Wright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 18-year-old Brampton native came to the Canadian Premier League at the tender age of 16 and immediately turned quite a few heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wright scored in his debut with the club in the Island Games, to become the youngest goal scorer ever in CPL history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, after 44 appearances, seven goals and five assists later, Wright will be taking his talents to western Canada to join Vancouver Whitecaps 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of his move out west, Wright, told CanPL.ca\u2019s Kristan Jack, it was a \u201cdream come true\u201d when he came to York United to play pro soccer and he couldn\u2019t be more excited to move on to bigger things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his early life, Wright was the team captain of Toronto FC\u2019s U-12 team and also played for Sigma FC\u2019s youth team. In 2019, Wright joined the Woodbridge Strikers\u2019 youth team, scoring 42 goals for the U-17 side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After appearing for the League 1 Ontario Woodbridge Strikers team, Wright made his way to the Canadian Premier League and now is on the cusp of being a part of the MLS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Wright was also called up for U-20 Canada side and played two friendlies against Costa Rica. In June, he made the team for the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this move, Wright will be an excellent acquisition for the Whitecaps 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 6-foot-forward is tough on the ball and has excellent finishing qualities any coach would love in a striker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">York, who suffered a 2-0 defeat on the road against Valour FC on Sunday, could have used Wright\u2019s services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nine Stripes, take on FC Edmonton at home this Sunday. Kick-off is at 4.00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Robert Belardi<\/strong><\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F31753&amp;t=York%20United%20forward%20joins%20Vancouver%20Whitecaps&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F31753&amp;p[images][0]=&amp;p[title]=York%20United%20forward%20joins%20Vancouver%20Whitecaps\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F31753&amp;text=Like%3F\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=York%20United%20forward%20joins%20Vancouver%20Whitecaps&amp;body=Like%3F:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers-online.com%2Fauroran%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F31753\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a memorable time donning the York United colours for Lowell Wright. The 18-year-old Brampton native came to the Canadian Premier League at the tender age of 16 and immediately turned quite a few heads. Wright scored in his debut with the club in the Island Games, to become the youngest goal scorer ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sports","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8g9","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-09 09:42:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}