VOYAGEURS CUP ENTERS HOME STRETCH

[François]

VOYAGEURS CUP ENTERS HOME STRETCH

TORONTO, August 3, 2003 - With the 2003 Voyageurs Cup past the halfway
point, the Vancouver Whitecaps' trip across Canada in the coming week
marks
the start of the do-or-die stage of the competition for both western
teams,
and could end with the clinching of the second annual championship for
Canada's top professional soccer team.

Vancouver and the Calgary Storm have their second meeting of this
year's
Voyageurs Cup in a holiday Monday match in Calgary. Later in the week,
Vancouver travel east for matches against the Montreal Impact on
Wednesday
and the Toronto Lynx on Friday.

Vancouver and Calgary kick off the week's pivotal games at Foothills
Park in
Calgary on Monday, August 4 at 8:30 PM Mountain. Vancouver's visit to
Claude
Robillard Sports Complex in Montreal on Wednesday, August 6 begins at
7:30
PM Eastern, and will be simulcast live in French on radio and Web by
Montreal's CKAC 730 AM (www.ckac.com). The week ends with Vancouver and
Toronto meeting at Toronto's Centennial Park Stadium on Friday, August
8 at
7 PM Eastern.

Montreal and Toronto lead the Voyageurs Cup standings with nine points
each,
while Vancouver have three and Calgary have none, so the results of
this
week's games are vital to the western teams' chances of challenging for
the
trophy.

The previous two Voyageurs Cup games, played July 16 and 24, served
only to
intensify the competition. Toronto battled to an exciting 3-2 overtime
win
in Montreal, with the 2003 tournament scoring leader Ali Ngon, who
ironically has since been transferred to Montreal, converting the tying
and
winning goals. Nikola Vignjevic scored the other for Toronto, and
Eduardo
Sebrango and Sita-Taty Matondo tallied for Montreal.

In the west, Vancouver earned their first points of this year's
tournament
with a 2-0 victory at home to Calgary, with goals from Nico Craveiro
and
Oliver Heald.

Both Montreal and Vancouver have an opportunity to clinch the Voyageurs
Cup
by the end of the week. Three straight wins for Vancouver in the coming
week
could seal the cup for them, while Montreal will be this year's winner
if
they defeat Vancouver on Wednesday and Vancouver defeats Toronto on
Friday.

If the trophy is not won this week, Calgary will play a crucial role in
determining the eventual winner as they visit Toronto and Montreal at
the
end of August for the last two matches of the 2003 Voyageurs Cup.

ABOUT THE VOYAGEURS CUP

The Voyageurs, Canada's national soccer fan club, inaugurated the
Voyageurs
Cup, Canada's only national, fan-awarded soccer trophy, in 2002. The
Voyageurs Cup trophy will be awarded to the most successful Canadian
A-League team, based on matches with other Canadian A-League teams.

The Voyageurs will present the Voyageurs Cup trophy to that team at a
home
game late in the season. The Cup will remain in possession of the
winning
team for display until the beginning of the following A-League season.
The
entire cost of the Voyageurs Cup, including purchasing, maintaining,
engraving, shipping, and promoting the trophy and tournament, has been
borne
entirely by private donations from individual Voyageurs.

The inaugural Voyageurs Cup in 2002 was won by the Montreal Impact.

The full Voyageurs Cup results, schedule, standings and more are
available
at www.voyageurscup.ca.