LAFC, Vancouver ready to renew their ‘little rivalry’

Are the Los Angeles Football Club and the Vancouver Whitecaps rivals?

After playing a half-dozen matches in 2023, including a playoff series sweep for LAFC, Major League Soccer thought so, parking the first encounter this year on the league’s rivalry week schedule.

“It does feel like a little rivalry because we’ve seen them so many times,” LAFC head coach Steve Cherundolo said Friday. “Fortunately for us we’ve come out on top, so I can imagine them trying to repeat what they did...