Canada soccer captain Alphonso Davies to undergo surgery after suffering injury in Nations League

Alphonso Davies's agent says the Canada captain was pressured to start against the U.S. on the weekend in a game that saw him go down with a knee injury.

Bayern Munich said Wednesday that Davies will be sidelined "for a lengthy period" after undergoing surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.

The injury comes some 15 months before the start of the 2026 World Cup, which Canada is co-hosting.

The 24-year-old from Edmonton left Sunday's 2-1 win over the United States in the CONCACAF Nations League third-place game in the 12th minute favouring his knee. He seemed to fall awkwardly challenging for the ball in the Canadian penalty box at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.

Davies was scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday.

"Alphonso was not 100 per cent after the Mexico game [Thursday] and it was planned that he was not going to start against the U.S.A.," agent Nick Huoseh said in a statement provided to OneSoccer. "On Saturday night the expectation was he would not be in the [starting] 11. As a captain, I feel he was pressured to start the game by the coach. Alphonso is not the kind of guy to say no in those moments. He ended up playing and look what happened.

"Canada Soccer needs to do a better job managing these players."

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Alphonso Davies leaves match with injury against U.S.

Huoseh said Davies was "down and obviously very disappointed about this injury."

Canada coach Jesse Marsch said Monday that the Bayern Munich star fullback was feeling "a little bit spooked because it was his knee and it moved in a certain way" when he went down early in the U.S. game.

Marsch said Davies had been "nursing a little bit of an injury' and had undergone a fitness