Paul to start trial in Canada

New Delhi: India goalkeeper Subrata Paul will start his trial stint at the Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Canada

with a training session with the first team being scheduled on Saturday. Paul, who left India on Tuesday for Canada, was received warmly by the Vancouver Whitecaps management and he met technical director Tom Soehn and General Manager Greg Anderson yesterday. "Vancouver Whitecaps has been very supportive so far. They have put him in a very nice hotel and he has a group of people at the club always ready to answer his questions," Paul`s manager Arvind Narayan, who too is in Vancouver, said. "Subrata will be training tomorrow with the first team which got back from Toronto this evening. So far he has spent his time watching countless videos of the Whitecaps on YouTube and he is ready to go out tomorrow and show his best," said Narayan in a Libero Sports Asia release. Paul will attend a 10-day trial with Vancouver Whitecaps FC which will make their Major League Soccer (MLS) debut from next season (2011). If India`s star goalkeeper impresses the Vancouver Whitecaps FC management he can join mid-season. The club play in the second division this season. The Pune FC goalkepeer was scheduled to go for trials in April but postponed his departure till the end of I-league after he sustained injury against Mumbai FC. PTI