Vanni Sartini watched the Vancouver Whitecaps from afar this season as his former team made it to three finals.

The Whitecaps, under Danish coach Jesper Sorensen, won the Canadian Championship, defeating Vancouver FC 4-2, and made it to the finals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup and MLS Cup, losing 5-0 to Mexico’s Cruz Azul and 3-1 to Inter Miami, respectively.

Vancouver finished second in Major League Soccer’s Western Conference at 18-7-9 this season, 16 points ahead of Sartini’s final eighth-place campaign (13-13-8) with the team in 2024.

“I am proud of the culture that we established in the organization,” Sartini said in an interview. “I am proud of the fact that I contributed to the development of a lot of those players, that they had a fantastic season. I am proud of the staff becaus

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