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Impact captain Patrice Bernier is hoping to become the second member of his family to win a soccer championship this year.

His wife, Mélisa Barile, was part of the AS Varennes club that won the provincial and national over-30 women’s championships this year. Bernier and the Impact will be looking to advance to the MLS Cup against the Seattle Sounders on Dec. 10 when they play Toronto FC Wednesday at BMO Field (7 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN Radio 690) in Game 2 of the two-game Eastern Conference final. The Impact won Game 1 of the aggregate-goals series 3-2 at Olympic Stadium and need only a draw in Toronto to become the first Canadian team to play in the MLS Cup.

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“My wife is my biggest fan, but also my No. 1 coach,” Bernier said with a smile. “She’ll be able to tell me when I play well or when I don’t play so well.”

Barile is a midfielder, just like her husband, and wears the same No. 8.

Soccer is a family affair for Bernier, who grew on the South Shore of Montreal and met his future wife 20 years ago when they were both playing soccer for Brossard teams and Barile was a teammate on his sister’s club. Bernier’s father, Jean, is one of the men responsible for starting up the annual Brossard Challenge Cup youth tournament in 1986, which has grown from 24 teams the first year to more than 200. Jean was inducted into the Quebec Soccer Federation’s Hall of Fame in 2004 as a builder.