So far so good. The Whitecaps won their season opener 2-0 yesterday afternoon against the Montreal Impact. Everythng is going according to plan so far. Last season was obviously one to forget with the Caps only winning a handful of games, if even. So, this year, they brought in a new coach and stacked the team with some great players. One of them is Sebastien Le Toux. He scored a pretty goal to make it 1-0. Camilo came up big with the second goal. It was very pretty. From what I could tell, it was a fun game for everyone, the staff, team and fans.
I came into the building at 12:30pm to get my radio and briefed with my Volunteer Manager before my crew of 16 showed up at 1:30pm for their shift. Doors opened at 2pm and everyone was pumped and excited and just a little bit nervous. I was Team Leading the Club Ambassadors. The Ambassadors are the ones you see first at the gates. They are the ones who welcome you to the game and hand you a free program and whatever else they may have on hand to distribute. I knew it was going to crazy and it was. For the opener, the Southsiders had asked Whitecaps to distribute their chants to the public along with the programs so that is just what my Ambassadors did. They also ran out of programs by 2:30pm at each of the gates. It was a sellout crowd of 21,000. I was the one running around from gate to gate with a radio strapped onto a pair of track pants that threatened to moon everyone as the weight of the radio was too much! Oh well...I managed.
Here are the Southsiders singing O'Canada to kick off the 2012 season.
Here's his reaction after the match on Twitter:
Wanna see Camillo's goal? Its pretty.
The place was going nuts with chants and cheering and just like last year, everyone left happy. The thing is that we all know that its just one game. Last year, they won their home opener 4-2 against Toronto FC but then it took them another three months to get their next win. Lets hope this year the next win come on March 24th when they play DC United.
On a side note, if anyone remembers seeing a play where Martin Bonjour, defender for the Vancouver Whitecaps shot the soccer ball into the sidelines and it hit a camera before they both (soccer ball and camera) hit the photographer in the eye. It was my good friend and former Whitecaps Volunteer, Hazel May. She takes pictures from the sidelines for Prost Amerika. She posted a pic on Facebook of her black eye that her husband had taken of her yesterday evening. So I thought i'd share it with you. She says she's fine but her eye hurts.
"For those of the 21,000 At the Vancouver Whitecaps game yesterday who saw me the photographer who got ball and camera in my right eye, here is the result, thanks for that player Bonjour...... it was an accident but my eye hurts!!!!" - Hazel May.
OUCH!!...you took one for the team. Hope it starts to feel better soon Hazel. :)
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