First-team public training session to be followed by an IMFC celebrity match
Doors open at 5:30pm
You missed your Montreal Impact and you are looking for a plan for your Thursday happy hour? The Bleu-blanc-noir has planned an interesting evening for you, to set the table up for the 2017 MLS home opener, this Saturday: TICKETS. Starting at 6pm, the first team will hold a public training session at Olympic Stadium, followed by a celebrity game of two twenty-minute halves. Admission is free for everyone!
From 6pm, you can watch Piatti, Bernier, Ciman, Oyongo and their teammates under a new light, while seeing with your own eyes the work of the technical staff, only 48 hours before the home opener. Come behind the scenes of the team and support your players!
Then, at 7:30pm, former Impact players and celebrities – artists, members of the media and athletes – will play a friendly game on the Olympic Stadium turf. Former Impact players, now working in the club Adam Braz, technical director, Nick De Santis, Vice-president, international relations and technical development, Massimo Di Ioia, video and data analyst, Jason Di Tullio, assistant coach, Simon Gatti, Academy head scout and Eduardo Sebrango, Academy U14 coach will be on the pitch alongside, among others, Benoit Huot, nine-time gold medallist Paralympic swimmer, Sébastien Benoit, TV host, Isabelle Charest, chef de mission in PyeongChang 2018 et and three-time Olympic medallist, Josée Bélanger, soccer player for the Canadian Women's National Team and bronze medallist at Rio 2016, Martin Juneau, Pastaga chef and owner and TV host, ValérieRoberts, TV host and columnist, Andy Mailly-Pressoir, reporter for TVA Sports, Frédéric Lord, commentator of all Impact games on TVA Sports, and his associate Vincent Destouches, soccer analyst, Lloyd Barker, former Impact player and columnist for The Gazette, Nicolas Martineau, journalist for TVA Sports and Patrick Leduc, former Impact player and analyst for RDS. These celebrities will join one of the two teams managed by Joey Saputo, Impact president, and Bruny Surin, Olympic gold medallist, with Jack Stern, Impact goalkeeper coach, and Eric Kronberg, current Impact goalkeeper, between the sticks.
Also note that a food concession will be open at Olympic Stadium for the whole evening.
