World Soccer

6 of the best CONCACAF Gold Cup stars

1 Alphonso DAVIES

(CANADA)

orn in Ghana to Liberian parents, Davies moved to Canada aged five and joined the Vancouver Whitecaps residency programme ten years later. In 2018, after 12 goals in 81 games for the Caps, Bayern Munich signed him for $22 million – then a record for an MLS player. By then he was already a Canada international, having made his debut at the age of 16, and last year he scored his country’s first-ever

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