When a player like Thomas Müller arrives, you have to build the team around him.

A World Cup champion and two-time UEFA Champions League winner who also helped Bayern Munich to 13 league titles and a bevy of other crowns, Müller joined the Vancouver Whitecaps this summer having more than proved himself at the highest level.

But rather than build around the 36-year-old, Whitecaps manager Jesper Sørensen had a different idea: Why not ask Müller to slot into what Vancouver already was doing? Instead of building the whole plane around Müller, the Germany great could be a passenger -- though one in first class -- on the trip the team was already charting.

It worked.

The Whitecaps are in the MLS Cup, preparing to face Inter Miami and their own crew of accomplished stars for t

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