Davies' agent opts for diplomatic tone in wake of Canadian men's captain's knee injury

Neil Davidson · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 6:22 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

The warfare of words implicit Alphonso Davies' genu wounded cooled somewhat Thursday with a conciliatory communique from the Canada captain's agent.

In the aftermath of Bayern Munich's announcement Wednesday that Davies had torn his anterior cruciate ligament successful Canada's 2-1 play triumph implicit the U.S. successful the CONCACAF Nations League third-place crippled successful Inglewood, Calif., cause Nedal Huoseh turned up the vigor by saying Davies "was not 100 per cent aft the Mexico crippled [last Thursday]" and was "pressured to commencement the [U.S.] game by the manager [Jesse Marsch]."

"Canada Soccer needs to bash a amended occupation managing these players," helium concluded.

Paulo Senra, Canada Soccer's main communications and contented officer, disputed that connection aboriginal successful the day, saying "Canada Soccer's coaches and experienced aesculapian unit are existent professionals and person ever prioritized subordinate information and well-being."

"Anything suggesting different is untrue," Senra said successful a statement.

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Huoseh offered a much diplomatic instrumentality successful a societal media station Thursday.

"Over the past 24 hours, I spoke with Jesse Marsch connected respective occasions," helium wrote. "I person a batch of respect for him arsenic a coach. We had affirmative and productive discussions and laid down the crushed enactment to guarantee we are each aligned and moving together, to proceed to support the champion interests of players. Moving guardant everyone progressive is focused connected prioritizing Phonzie's recovery."

The wounded comes immoderate 15 months earlier the commencement of the 2026 World Cup, which Canada is co-hosting. If each goes well, helium should beryllium backmost successful clip to pb the 31st-ranked Canadian men.

Bayern, connected its authoritative website, did not supply a circumstantial timeline for Davies' instrumentality different than to accidental helium would beryllium unavailable for "several months" and would beryllium sidelined "for a lengthy period" aft undergoing country to repair his close knee.

Canada is adjacent successful enactment successful aboriginal June astatine the Canadian Shield tournament, a four-country contention successful Toronto. Davies was not expected to beryllium portion of the CONCACAF Gold Cup that follows aboriginal successful June fixed Bayern's information successful the FIFA Club World Cup.