WATCH: The Whitecaps and their fans are fuming after learning that Inter Miami star Lionel Messi isn't coming to Vancouver for the much anticipated game on Saturday.will not be in Vancouver to play against the Whitecaps on Saturday, head coach Vanni Sartini said they have to see it as an opportunity to impress, along with cheaper stadium food.
“What I can say is that gives us even more responsibility to put up a great show, to play very well, to come in and check out the Whitecaps, and to see how entertaining we can be,” Sartini told Global News Morning.“So I think it’s a great opportunity for us to, I would say, showcase our product and to do a good job,” Sartini said.Messi’s image was used in advertising for the game against the Whitecaps, which many said was misleading to fans.
While Messi isn’t playing at BC place, the infuriating part isn’t that he isn’t playing – this was predictable, but that ticket prices were jacked up despite the fact that chances were low that he’d come.Plan to wake Robert Pickton from coma after prison attack: Quebec police Sartini said this has happened with star players and away games before; he noted that a less congested schedule could mean that players could attend away games and still have enough time to rest after.“In Italian, we say ‘It’s a dog who bites its own tail,’ because, you know, if you want a less congested schedule, it means less games,” he said. “Yeah, it’s less games, it means less money.
“We totally understand the frustration, you know, we know that some of the people spent large amounts of money, too,” Sartini added.How a TV show led to a Brazilian man’s love of the Edmonton Oilers