CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – The Grande Sports Academy is set to host three professional soccer clubs in early 2014, as Real Salt Lake, Vancouver Whitecaps and Indy Eleven will spend a portion of their preseason at the GSA.
This marks the 5th-consecutive year that Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake and the Vancouver Whitecaps will call the Grande Sports Academy home in the preseason. Indy Eleven, who will make their debut in the Northern American Soccer League in early April 2014, will be holding their first preseason camp in franchise history.
Dates for the clubs are as follows (subject to change):
Real Salt Lake: January 25th-Febraury 1st.
Indy Eleven: February 1st-February 10th.
Vancouver: February 3rd-February 12th.
Last year, the Grande Sports Academy hosted: Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders, Vancouver Whitecaps and New England Revolution. Sporting Kansas City and the Denmark U-20 team did not stay at the GSA, but did train on site.