Save the Caps:

“The frustrating part for me is the fans get it, our soccer community gets it. But what I’m hoping now, with this alarm bell that’s gone off, is that our politicians wake up to it,” Montagliani, the former British Columbia Soccer Association and Canada Soccer Association president, said. “It is the biggest community asset we have. And the other (Vancouver-based) professional clubs are the same, they’ve been around forever — the (BC) Lions and the (Vancouver) Canucks. So, it’s very frustrating that leaders, mainly political leaders, don’t get it. They don’t get the equity of these clubs. And the virtue signaling of saying, ‘Oh, taxpayer money.’ Well, if you’re really worried about the taxpayer, you’d do a better job in other areas.”