Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps added four players to their inaugural season roster Thursday -- midfielders Russell Teibert and Alexandre Morfaw, forward Camilo da Silva Sanvezzi, and defender Michael Boxall.
Teibert is Vancouver's fourth Home Grown Player after signing a Generation adidas contract with MLS. The 2008 and 2009 Canadian U-17 Player of the Year, he has been with the Whitecaps since September 10, 2008.
At 17 years, 221 days, he became the 10th youngest player to compete in a first team game when he played in the first half of a 2-2 draw against the USSF Division 2 Pro League's Carolina RailHawks on July 31, 2010.
He was a member of Canada's U-17 team at the 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship in Tijuana, Mexico and later earned call-ups to his country's U-20 and U-23 Olympic teams.
Morfaw played six games last season for the Whitecaps in the D-2 League. Before that, he spent two seasons in Sweden with Bodena BK and helped them get promoted to the country's third-tier Division 1 Norra for 2010.
He represented his home country of Cameroon on their U-17, U-20 and U-23 teams, including participating in the 2007 African Youth Championships with the U-20 team and the U-23's Indomitable Lions' qualification run for the 2008 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, and played in England for Scunthrope United (2007-08) and France's FC Nantes.
Camilo, born in Presidente Prudente, Brazil, played for home teams Oeste Paulista Esporte Club and Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano before going to Malta to play for Qormi FC, where, in the 2009-10 season, he was the leading scorer in the Maltese Premier League (24 goals) and Maltese FA Trophy (six goals), which Qormi won.
In July 2010, Camilo joined Gyeongnam FC in the professional K-League in South Korea, where he had six goals in seven games for their "B' team and seven with the first team.
Boxall was the Whitecaps' top pick in the 2011 MLS Supplemental Draft from the University of California - Santa Barbara, where the Auckland, New Zealand native had one goal and five assists and started 75 of 78 career games.
Boxall has earned a call-up to his country's All Whites team after starting three games in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.
He also represented New Zealand on their U-20, U-23 and senior teams.
In 2006, he played two games for the "A" team at the Agribank Cup in Vietnam and, in 2008, played for the U-23s at the 2003 Men's Olympic Football Tournament in Beijing, China.
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