England soccer coach will miss son’s wedding because of friendly match

For parents, one of the highlights of their lives is seeing their son or daughter get married.

England national soccer coach Fabio Capello is not going to have that opportunity to see his younger son Pierfilippo walk down the aisle because of a rescheduling of a friendly match against Spain:

Capello’s younger son Pierfilippo is marrying his long-term partner Tiziana in Milan on Saturday which clashes with England’s game against Spain. The match was originally scheduled for Friday but Spain insisted that it was moved back to give their Barcelona contingent more time to recover from tonight’s Copa del Rey game against L’Hospitalet.

Sadly for Capello that means getting to the wedding will be an impossibility (well, unless time travel is involved or Mother Nature comes calling) but his son understands that with his father’s job certain sacrifices have to be made:

Pierfilippo told The Independent: “It [Capello missing the wedding] is not a problem, absolutely not. He is a football manager first; he has been that ever since I was a child and sometimes being a football manager can make strange demands on your time. You just have to accept that.

“It will be a beautiful ceremony and a beautiful party. We will all toast him sitting there on the bench at Wembley and look forward to him coming to join us for the celebrations after the games.”

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Capello to miss son’s wedding for Spain game [The Independent]