VANCOUVER - Jesper Sorensen's first season as a head coach in Major League Soccer was full of big moments.

There was the moment his Vancouver Whitecaps signed one of the world's best soccer talents. And the one where they defeated a playoff foe in dramatic fashion. And the one where they played the league championship against Lionel Messi and his club.

Each is memorable, Sorensen said Monday — and so is the way the city of Vancouver rallied around its soccer team.

“The fact that we have been able to excite so many people and gain that support from the whole city of Vancouver, is definitely something that I take close to heart," he said. "I think that’s what it’s about, what sport’s about.”

Sorensen was named head coach of the 'Caps just hours before the team embarked for training camp

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