Alphonso Davies' agent rips Canada Soccer after star suffers major injury
Canada and its national men’s soccer team will be without Alphonso Davies for the foreseeable future.
The 24-year-old star captain of the national team suffered an ACL tear over the weekend, being subbed off in the first half of a 2-1 victory over the United States in the third-place game of the CONCACAF Nations League.
While the severity of Davies’ injury was unknown until today, his club team, FC Bayern, confirmed the news this morning.
“Unfortunately, there’s always the risk of players returning from international breaks with injuries — this time, we’ve been hit particularly hard. [Davies] will get all the support he needs on his road to recovery,” said FC Bayern board member Max Eberl in a statement.
Davies’ agent Nedal Huoseh ripped Canada Soccer’s coaching staff in a statement to OneSoccer’s Kristian Jack, stating that Davies was not expecting to start in the match he was ultimately injured in.
“I am very disappointed. Alphonso was not 100% after the Mexico game and it was planned that he was not going to start against the USA. On Saturday night the expectation was he would not be in the XI,” Huoseh told Jack. “As a captain I feel he was pressured to start the game by the coach. Alphonso is not the kind of guy to say no in those moments. He ended up playing and look what happened. Canada Soccer needs to do a better job managing these players, in my opinion. Alphonso is down and obviously really disappointed about this injury.”
Though no specific timelines were offered for Davies’ recovery, most ACL tears tend to sideline players for a minimum of 8-10 months.
For Canada, he has scored 15 goals, the fifth-most among active players, and 10th overall despite his relatively young age.
Davies has won five German titles and the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League since transferring to Bayern from the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2018. Bayern is currently sitting in first place in the Bundesliga title race, six points clear of second-place Bayer Leverkusen. They’re also in the final eight of the Champions League, facing off against Inter Milan in a two-legged quarterfinal beginning April 8.
The one silver lining for Canada is that they’ve already qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup by being one of the three host nations and should have Davies fit for that tournament, barring any setbacks in his recovery.
Canada’s first game is slated for June 12, 2026, at Toronto’s BMO Field, some 14 months and two weeks from now.
The next scheduled matches for the team are on June 7 and 10, when they’ll play host in Toronto to Ukraine and Côte d’Ivoire as part of the inaugural Canada Shield trophy.