Ex-Whitecaps coach Bob Birarda receives two-year sentence for sex offences

Former Vancouver Whitecaps and Canada U-20 women's soccer coach Bob Birarda leaves his lawyer's office in a vehicle after appearing in provincial court via a video link, in Vancouver, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022. Birarda has pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and one count of touching a young person for a sexual purpose. (Darryl Dyck/CP)