The Vancouver Whitecaps aren’t ready to open up the upper bowl. Not yet, anyway.

But with ticket sales surging in anticipation of Thomas Müller making his Whitecaps debut at the next home match on Aug. 17 against the Houston Dynamo, there is no doubt that opening up the upper reaches of B.C. Place isn’t impossible.

That said, with more than a week to still go until Müller is expected to make some kind of debut for the Blue and White, a team source says they are focused on filling the lower bowl before making any decision on opening up the upper reaches of the stadium.

“At this point, we are focused on an exciting packed lower bowl,” the source said.

Whitecaps CEO and sporting director Axel Schuster acknowledged earlier this week that ticket sales for the Aug. 17 game began to surge n

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