Teenager Alphonso Davies could be Canada's 1st men's soccer superstar

people in North America have always welcomed me if given the chance I know they will welcome you thank you, you may remember watching this video today Canada, the United States and Mexico were awarded the 2026 World Cup Alfonzo Davies, 17 years, the face of the future of North American

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his dazzling skills have made him a star on Vancouver's major league

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team, the Whitecaps, he has tremendous ball skills. He is one of those players who runs as fast with the ball as without it. He has come so far, so fast. and he is expected to soon sign with one of Europe's elite teams.

When you ask his teammates about him, they not only marvel at his athletic talent. I think one of the most important things is that yes, it is spectacular to see him on the field, but to share a room with him. him and spending a lot of time with him off the field. I can tell you that he is a much better person and that is a testament because he is a fantastic player, so Canadian soccer fans have high hopes for when the World Cup comes here and also. Alfonzo Davies and while a lot can happen in eight years, Davies is expected to be the star of a Canadian national team that has not qualified for a World Cup in 32 years.

I sat down with him in Vancouver a few days ago to talk about what's going on. ahead and how far he has come since he was born in a refugee camp in Africa to take care of achieving it seems so normal just a young man helping at a soccer camp yes, but Alphonso Babies is the next big Canadian soccer star and already Your story is remarkable, what should people know about you first as a soccer player? What makes you special? I don't give up. I always try to play in the best interest of the team as a whole.

I'm just trying to develop my skills as much as possible. And as a person, what should people know as a person? I'm a fun guy. I like to smile a lot. I don't really like to take things too seriously because life is too short to be frowning all the time. I'm angry, so I'm playing the game I love with a great team. I mean, I'm just enjoying every moment. The assistant coach was here and I said, what should I know about Alfonso? and he smiled and you know what. The first thing he said was that he was going to answer.

He seems like he's having fun off the field. He's just like any other kid, whether playing foosball or finishing high school. His friend Stefan Kregel says that one of the things he finds most notable about Davies is his word that we hear over and over again humility, he doesn't go around showing off expensive things, no one like that, he is humble, just because he will eat out, if you want to eat something very Quick, we don't have to go to a flashy restaurant. or anything, he just keeps it simple, sometimes even home cooked meals and that's just humble, weak Davey says humility comes from here his roots are in war-torn Liberia his parents fled to Ghana where Davies was born in a refugee camp seeing where I come and see where we are now, I think that's one of the reasons why I'm trying to level my head and I'm also trying to be humble with my mom, she gave me the opportunity and I don't want to do it.

You know, having a big head and then kind of happy and then she says what happened. I don't want to disappoint her. This is from a video the Whitecaps produced and includes an interview with his parents. I thought about him because if I look back. Where we came from, graffiti didn't come, there was no food, no clothes, and we are too deep, he had everything. They did a little doc about me looking at it and seeing my mom because I haven't really seen my mom cry. I think it's the first time. I've seen it, she really touched me, you know, she really believes in me and I'm happy that she let me in.

All I want to do is make her proud. The Davies arrived in Canada when Alfonzo was five years old and settled in Edmonton. It wasn't long before his extraordinary football talents caught the eye, he joined the Whitecaps Development Program at the age of 14, a year later he made his MLS debut in the white cap, what a moment for the

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who was only 15 years I was playing in Major League Soccer on my first MLS team I was really nervous and I was like, whoa, yeah, it's actually getting into me and I was shaking, I saw my thing go up, I was looking, I thought, wow, actually, I'm going to do this, he stomped. on the field once I started making my passes completing my stances agar-agar relaxed relaxed but certainly not complacent, he has emerged as one of the stars of the team and one of Canada's great players, although there was a hurdle before he

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dress for national team citizenship.

I took the test a little over a year ago, after a little help from the white fields, a week before, I'll just be walking around the facility and the staff members asked me a random question, hey, what's the name of a Prime Minister? Oh, and me. I have to answer it quickly and that really helped me a lot, so when I went into the exam and I was reading a question, I was eight years old. I knew this business, so I got 99 to 20 and thought I passed. He was happy and so were we. Canadian soccer fans Davies became the youngest national team player who has not qualified for a World Cup since 1986.

A few days ago he was watching this year's semi-finals with some of his teammates, including Kai Kymaro's Kamara , has become almost like an older brother. For Davies, he is also a refugee from Africa. He spoke to Davies about being proud of the place he came from and the place he welcomed him. They show him a lot of love and that's the important thing is you know he's found a home for him and his family and when you can have that you'll give it your all and I can't wait to see you know what happens down the road but right now I'm enjoying playing with him, what happens next will be great when he fulfills.

On November 18, the Whitecaps can transfer his rights and some of the best teams in Europe will bid for his services. Bob Leonard Uzi is the Whitecaps chairman, who will be in line for a transfer fee from Davies' next team. What kind of money are they? We're talking about that, yeah, that's something that we haven't necessarily disclosed and for us I think that's initially where we're waiting to see what the market offers and so we're still going through that process, but it's going to be an important one. amount of money do you have people calling you or calling your agent?

Do you have people that I have? What kind of process is happening now? To be honest, I have no idea that I don't deal with that. Different social networks, but I just don't, I just don't answer them. My age is that he takes all the phone calls. If he has something important to tell me, he calls me and tells me himself, but yeah, I don't really feel worried about it. that's not my side of the game my size they perform on the field he still has the rest of the season with the white caps to focus on and no matter where he goes next he says he will always play for Canadian soccer fans they've already done the math Davies will be only 25 in his prime when the World Cup comes here in 2026 and Rosemary Bob Leonard Izzy, who we met in that article, was a member of the last Canadian team to be in the World Cup in 1986, says it.

It takes more than one player to be successful at the World Cup, of course, but he feels Davies is one of a handful of young stars and Canada feels he'll be able to do well at the World Cup, that's exciting, I mean , you. I kept talking about how sensible he is and I guess it's because he must be fine, you know. I know people who are like the best athletes in their high school or college and they're pretty cocky about it, and here's Davies, who's probably one of the best seventeen-year-olds in the world and he's down to earth and his little ones. flashes of the child in him, like when I asked him who his favorite soccer player is and he said Leonel Messi, the Argentine star, here's a little bit of that part of the conversation I've never met her I see and you would I don't know I'd probably be speechless or wouldn't know what to do I'm just looking at him you'll be like him I'd probably say hello and not like I'm so nervous.

How do I mean? Don't know.