Alphonso Davies has suffered a fresh injury setback, which puts him out of action for a period of time. Jesse Marsch, head coach of the Canada Men’s National Soccer Team, revealed that he had spoken to Davies and made the decision to leave him out of their international friendlies in March.
“I spoke to him today. He’s obviously down and frustrated a little bit, but he said this little injury, compared to even the one he experienced a month ago is much less severity”, Marsch said (TSN Sports as captured
by X account @iMiaSanMia). “He’ll probably be 2, 3 weeks before he’s back again. He’s probably not going to be with us for March, which is okay. We’ll probably leave him there in Munich and make sure he gets himself fully fit and fully back to 100%, but I’m confident he will do that.”
The 52-year-old former Red Bull system and Leeds United coach had a few words to lift Davies’ spirits up a bit: “Along with his frustration, my message to him was, like, just stay positive. It’s not easy when you come back from these long-term injuries. You’re gonna be fine. You’re young. You’re strong. We just need to take the appropriate steps to make sure that we don’t have any more setbacks”.
We do have some good news, because Davies is now doing training drills with the ball:
