Win or lose, Harry Shipp is getting a ring this month.
Seven days after competing in Saturday’s MLS Cup against Toronto FC at BMO Field, Shipp will marry his fiancée, Maria, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Such is the life of an MLS player, where the window between the season – especially the MLS Cup – and preseason is astonishingly short.
“For us, we were planning it last December, I didn’t know what team I was going to playing on, whether it was with Montreal or somewhere new,” Shipp said. "Obviously for us, if we’re in MLS Cup, we knew it would be crazy.