Vancouver, BC - Sources with the Vancouver Whitecaps admit that they may not be let back into Canada after travelling to Orlando for the Major League Soccer (MLS) COVID Cup.

“We’ve had some discussions about it and it’s a risk we are willing to have our players take,” stated Whitecaps CEO, Sporting Director, Charity Consultant, Digital Rights Manager, and Social Media manager Axel Schuster. “It’s important for our team to be ready and prepared and we’ve calculated in the amount of players that we can have get sick while still being able to fulfill the sponsorship agreements that we have in place.”

Sources with the team indicate that the Whitecaps front office were told by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) that travel restrictions are still in place at all Canadian international border crossings.

“These measures will remain in place until at least July 21,” stated Jerry McKenzie with the CBSA. “We are under no obligation to let a bunch of super spreaders from one of the worst hit COVID areas back into our country. They can stay in Orlando indefinitely.”

According to the CBSA, Canadian citizens and permanent residents can continue to enter Canada by right, and are subject to COVID-19 entry screening measures including a possible 14 day quarantine. However, the CBSA indicated that anyone going to Orlando voluntarily should probably just play on buying property around the Gulf Coast and transitioning their career from a soccer player to a dissident shrimp boat captain.

For their part, the Whitecaps players remain excited to possibly be exposed to a deadly pandemic while being stuck in a hotel and waiting around to find out what happens next as a number of them stated, “yeah this is great,” while going back to scrolling through their phone trying to distract themselves from all of the rumors floating around the tournament.

The Nutmeg News will have more on this if the Whitecaps ever actually make it to the airplane to fly to Orlando.