Metro Gerela... sports family (Silvana Burtini, football brothers Roy and Ted Gerela)... married his wife on 4 December 1971 (the league actually postponed Vancouver Paul`s match on account that most of the team was attending the wedding)... studied Business Management at the University of British Columbia... studied kinesiology at Simon Fraser University... earned his Canada Soccer Coaching B Diploma...

with New Westminster Blues SC, a Canada Soccer National Championships winner (Challenge Trophy in 1972)...

at age 13, he had the honour to kick off the all-star match against Northern Ireland at Callister Park on 6 June 1953 (Gerela was the recent Soccer Boy winner at the Vancouver Sun’s Tournament of Champions)...

For Sport

served as a scout for the Vancouver Whitecaps...