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ALPHONSO DAVIES

BAYERN MUNICH, 19

Canada

Born in a Ghanaian refugee camp, schooled in Canada – and now coming of age in Germany. Davies’ parents fled their homeland during the Second Liberian Civil War before eventually making it to their new lives, but little did they know what their boy would become: an MLS player with Vancouver Whitecaps at just 15, then Canada’s youngest debutant at 16 and a $22 million Bayern star at 17. At 19? Their first-choice left-back.

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