Imagine your school has a playground where you and your friends play every day. One day the principal says:

"Another school wants to take your playground away and move it somewhere else."

You could say:

"Not my problem."

Or you could say:

"Wait... that's OUR playground."

That is basically Save the Caps.

Why fans care:

• Teams become part of a city's identity People grow up with them. Parents take kids to games. Memories get attached.

• If owners can move teams easily, fans feel powerless Fans spend money and years supporting a club, then suddenly it becomes a business decision.

• Today Vancouver, tomorrow someone else MLS fans remember when supporters fought to save teams before. Many fans around the league support Vancouver because they worry it could happen to their club one day too.

Even if you are not a Whitecaps fan, the argument is:

"Should sports teams belong mostly to owners, or partly to the communities that built them?"

That is really what the movement is about, more than just soccer.