{"id":840543,"date":"2026-08-01T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840543\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:42:38","slug":"vancouver-whitecaps-acquire-canadian-kwasi-poku-from-rwdm-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840543\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Whitecaps acquire Canadian Kwasi Poku from RWDM Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired Canadian forward Kwasi Poku via transfer from Belgium&#8217;s RWDM Brussels, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhitecapsFC\/status\/2082874082798780588?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">the team announced<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Poku and the Whitecaps have agreed to a deal through the 2027-28 MLS season, with a club option for 2028-29. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old racked up six goals in 31 appearances over two seasons in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Before competing in Europe, Poku played for Forge FC for three seasons, where he was a two-time Canadian Premier League winner. He contributed 12 goals in 22 appearances during that time.<\/p>\n<p>The Brampton, Ontario, native was also called up to the Canada men&#8217;s national team in 2024, where he came off the bench in a friendly against Panama. Poku becomes the eighth Canadian on the Whitecaps roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired Canadian forward Kwasi Poku via transfer from Belgium&#8217;s RWDM Brussels, the team announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-840543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}