Valour FC has named its captains for the 2020 Canadian Premier League soccer season.
The team, which has seen its sophomore season in Winnipeg delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday that midfielders Dylan Carreiro and Daryl Fordyce will be wearing the captains’ armbands.
Carreiro, 25, already has a notable place in the squad’s history books as the first Manitoban to score for the hometown team. He also scored the game-winner in Valour’s first-ever match in May of last year.
Fordyce, on the other hand, is a new addition to the team. He spent last season in Ireland with Silgo Rovers, in that country’s Premier Division.
The 33-year-old has previous experience playing in Canada and the U.S., as well as at home in Northern Ireland, whose national team he represented as an under-19 and under-21 player.
The two players follow previous Valour captains Jordan Murrell and Skylar Thomas, both of whom moved on from the Canadian league to teams in the USL Championship.