As the Westshore Rebels get set to take on the Langley Rams this weekend, it isn’t necessarily the matchup that head coach Charly Cardilicchia is excited about – it’s playing in front of a home crowd for the first time this season.

Cardilicchia has strong ties to local football leagues. He grew up playing local minor football, as well as four seasons with the then-newly-formed British Columbia Football Conference Victoria Rebels of the junior football league, where he scored the team’s first touchdown.