Alphonso Davies

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Alphonso Davies
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Alphonso Davies (2019)
Personnel
birthday November 2, 2000
place of birth Buduburam ,  Ghana
size 181 cm
position Left -back , left wing
Juniors
Years station
Edmonton Internationals
2006-2014 Edmonton Strikers
2015-2017 Vancouver Whitecaps
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016 Vancouver Whitecaps 2 11 (2)
2016-2018 Vancouver Whitecaps 66 (8)
2019– FC Bayern Munich 35 (4)
2019 FC Bayern Munich II 6 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2017– Canada 17 (5)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 15, 2019

Alphonso Boyle "Phonzie" Davies (born November 2, 2000 in Buduburam , Ghana ) is a Canadian soccer player of Liberian descent who has been with FC Bayern Munich since November 2018 . Davies, who is actually a trained winger, mainly plays the left- back position there . He played for the Vancouver Whitecaps until the end of October 2018 , where he became the first major league soccer player to be born in the 2000s at the age of 15 in September 2016 . He has also played for the Canadian national team since 2017 .

Origin and family

Davies was born on November 2, 2000 in the Ghanaian refugee camp Buduburam in the Gomoa East District after his parents from Liberia fled to Ghana via the Ivory Coast due to the civil war that began in 1989 (until 2003) . At the age of five, he and his parents came to Canada , where they first settled in the city of Toronto . With no prospect of a regular job, his parents ended up in Edmonton . Davies had to contribute to the family income from an early age and help with the care of his two younger siblings. At the age of 16, Davies was naturalized and received Canadian citizenship.

Career

Beginnings in Edmonton

Davies began playing soccer in various youth clubs in Edmonton . He played with the Edmonton Internationals and the Edmonton Strikers. Under the ex-professional Ante Jazić , the then 13-year-old was trained in a youth camp for the Canadian U15 juniors in October 2014.

The following year he received offers from the Vancouver Whitecaps from the MLS and FC Edmonton from the NASL . Davies decided on the Whitecaps and was trained from then on in their Vancouver Whitecaps Residency . In the 2015/16 season he played twelve games for the U16 academy team and scored six goals. He scored another three goals in four championship games for the Vancouver U18 team.

First professional contract at the age of 15

After completing the pre-season season with the pros, he was offered his first professional contract with the Vancouver Whitecaps 2, the second team in the MLS franchise, which competes in the third-rate North American United Soccer League (USL). He signed it on February 23, 2016, and at the age of 15 years and three months became the youngest player to ever sign a professional contract in the USL. He missed the start of the season due to a call to the training camp of the U20 national team. On April 3, 2016, he made his debut under coach Alan Koch at the age of 15 years, five months and one day on the second match day of the United Soccer League, when he scored 3-1 -Win the Portland Timbers 2 in the starting XI. This was followed by regular assignments in the USL.

On May 15, 2016, in a 4-3 home game against LA Galaxy II , he scored his first competitive goal, which made him the youngest scorer in the history of the USL. He made his debut for the MLS franchise Vancouver Whitecaps on June 1, 2016 in the semi-final first leg of the 2016 Canadian Championship against Ottawa Fury . He was substituted on for Ben McKendry in the 72nd minute . Davies was also used in the second leg and the two finals against Toronto FC , and he was in the starting line-up in two of the three games. Toronto won the final due to the away goals rule . For this tournament, he had signed a short-term contract with the MLS franchise.

On July 15, 2016, he signed a contract dated until 2018 with the option for the game years 2019 and 2020. At that time, he was the seventh homegrown player of the Whitecaps and also the first Whitecaps FC 2 player to jump into the first team succeeded. On his debut in the Canadian Championship, he was also the youngest player ever to appear in a competitive game for the Whitecaps. He is the third youngest player in league history to sign a contract with a franchise.

Breakthrough at the Vancouver Whitecaps

A day later Alphonso Davies made his debut in a 2-2 home game against Orlando City in the North American Football League when he was substituted on by coach Carl Robinson in the 77th minute for Nicolás Mezquida . This made him the second youngest player to be used in Major League Soccer, after Freddy Adu . He was also the first football player born in the 2000s in the MLS. After he was active again in the second team in the following years, he returned to the MLS squad at the beginning of August and from then on sat regularly for Vancouver on the substitute bench and thus came to short appearances, but also played partially in the second team.

On September 13, 2016, he played against Sporting Kansas City from the start . In the 2-1 away win, he was named player of the game after a goal and an assist. In total, Davies came to eight appearances in the 2016 MLS season . In the 2017 season he made 26 appearances, nine of them in the starting line-up. During the 2017 season he was named the greatest talent in world football by the football statistics company Goalimpact . Davies made his final breakthrough in the 2018 season . He came to 31 MLS appearances, including 27 in the starting XI, in which he scored eight goals.

Change to FC Bayern Munich

At the end of July 2018, the move from Davies to FC Bayern Munich on January 1, 2019 was announced. He signed a contract with a term until June 30, 2023. The transfer fee, which including bonus payments can amount to more than 22 million US dollars (at the time of the announcement on July 25, 2018 around 18.8 million euros), provided the up to then, the highest transfer fee is, each of a MLS - franchise was taken. Since the Vancouver Whitecaps did not reach the play-offs, the season ended for Davies with the last day of the regular season on October 28, 2018. On November 21, 2018, Davies joined the FC Bayern Munich squad and started team training. He was eligible to play from the opening of the transfer window on January 1, 2019. By the end of the 2018/19 season , Davies was substituted on six times in the Bundesliga under head coach Niko Kovač , scoring one goal. At the end of the season he was German champion and cup winner with FC Bayern , although he was not used in the cup final. In addition, Davies played three times in the second team of FCB in the fourth-class regional league Bayern , with which he was promoted to the third division .

At the beginning of the 2019/20 season , Davies was initially a reservist again and, in addition to some substitutions for the professionals, was used three times for the second team in the 3rd division. Due to injury-related failures, the regular left-back David Alaba had to move into central defense during the first half of the season. Davies then replaced Alaba on the 9th day of play in the left-back position and was able to establish himself as a regular under the new head coach Hansi Flick . Until the end of the first half of the season he played all games over the entire season. At the end of November 2019, Davies was voted 18th with one vote in the Golden Boy election for the best U21 player in Europe of 2019. During the winter break he was defensively led in the ranking of German football by the kicker with nine other players in the wider circle on the flank , while no player made it into the world class and international class .

On August 23, 2020, he won the UEFA Champions League as a regular and as the first Canadian with Bayern Munich in the final against Paris Saint-Germain . He won the triple with FC Bayern through the German championship and the cup victory .

His contract with FC Bayern runs until June 30, 2025.

National team

In autumn 2015, the then 14-year-old was appointed as the youngest player by coach Rob Gale to a training camp of the U18 national team of Canada .

In June 2017, Davies received the Canadian passport as part of the Canadian Citizenship Ceremony , which helped him make his debut for the Canadian national team : At the age of just 16, he came on June 13, 2017 in a 2-1 against Curaçao . Only a few weeks later he took part with the national team in the Gold Cup , the continental championship for North and Central America. The tournament took place in the US and Davies scored two goals in his team's first game in a 4-2 win over French Guiana . In the following group game against Costa Rica he scored the opening goal, the game ended 1: 1. In the last group game, a 0-0 win against Honduras , he only made a brief appearance as a substitute. The five points were enough for the Canadians to reach the quarter-finals. Davies played there from the start, but could not prevent the 2-1 defeat against Jamaica and thus the elimination from the competition. Still, Davies was the top scorer of the competition with his three goals scored along with Jordan Morris and Kévin Parsemain .

Since the Canadian national team had already retired from qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia in 2016 , Davies did not play another major tournament until 2019. Again it was the Gold Cup , which this time was held across countries in the USA, Costa Rica and Jamaica. The Canadians survived the preliminary round, but were eliminated again in the quarter-finals like two years earlier, this time against Haiti with a 2: 3 (2: 0) defeat. Davies had played in all four of his team's games, prepared three goals over the course of the tournament, but did not hit the net himself.

successes

Club title

Personal awards

Web links

Commons : Alphonso Davies  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b Youth serves: 15-year-old Alphonso Davies joins WFC2 after 'eye-opening' experience with first team , accessed on October 24, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Weber: Caps give youth a chance in 15-year-old Alphonso Davies ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 24, 2016
  4. ↑ Chris Mayer-Lodge: Alphonso Davies: From refugee camp to Bayern Munich, via Edmonton and Vancouver Whitecaps. In: bundesliga.com. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Alphonso Davies receives Canadian citizenship and first senior call-up to Canada , whitecapsfc.com, June 6, 2016, accessed July 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ Men's U-15 identification camp , accessed October 24, 2016
  7. ↑ Whitecaps FC sign teenagers Matthew Baldisimo and Alphonso Davies to WFC2 , accessed October 24, 2016
  8. ↑ Who is Alphonso Davies? (English), accessed October 24, 2016
  9. ↑ Men's U-20 international camp in England , accessed October 24, 2016
  10. ↑ Tweet of the USL after the first competitive game hit , accessed on October 24, 2016
  11. ↑ Whitecaps FC submit 20-man roster in advance of Wednesday's Amway Canadian Championship semifinal , accessed on October 24, 2016
  12. ↑ a b c d Whitecaps FC add 15-year-old Residency product Alphonso Davies to MLS roster , accessed October 24, 2016
  13. ↑ Youngster Alphonso Davies impresses in MLS debut for Whitecaps (English), accessed on October 24, 2016
  14. ↑ Tweet about the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions League 2016/17 (English), accessed on October 24, 2016
  15. ↑ Biermann, Christoph 1960-: Match plan the new football matrix . 1st edition. Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-462-05100-1 .
  16. ↑ FC Bayern sign Alphonso Davies until 2023 , fcbayern.com, July 25, 2018, accessed on July 25, 2018.
  17. ↑ Whitecaps FC agree to MLS record-breaking transfer of Homegrown midfielder Alphonso Davies to Germany's most storied club FC Bayern Munich , whitecapsfc.com, July 25, 2018, accessed on July 25, 2018.
  18. ↑ Alphonso Davies has arrived in Munich , fcbayern.com, November 21, 2018, accessed on November 21, 2018.
  19. ↑ Sancho only second: Joao Felix is ​​Golden Boy 2019 , kicker.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019.
  20. ↑ Who is where and why: Halstenberg is enthroned above everyone , kicker.de, January 7, 2020, accessed on February 11, 2020.
  21. ↑ FC Bayern and Alphonso Davies extend until 2025 , fcbayern.com, April 20, 2020, accessed on April 20, 2020.
  22. ^ Men's U-18 development camp , accessed October 24, 2016
  23. ↑ Canada Soccer welcomes Alphonso Davies as new Canadian
  24. ↑ Teen star Davies, coach Zambrano usher in new start for Canada soccer
  25. ↑ Vjeko Keskic: Neuer, Flick, Davies & Co. - FC Bayern dominates kicker player survey. In: fcbinside.de. July 20, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Alphonso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Alphonso Boyle (full name); Davies, Phonzie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Buduburam , Ghana