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The Importance of Alphonso Davies


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17 minutes ago, Kent said:

Maybe it's some sort of slow working voodoo doll of an avatar. Someone with artistic skills draw one of the same cartoon version of him but with 2 functioning eyes holding the World Cup trophy.

I actually thought of this when it happened. A sigil.

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My sister of all people, just pointed me to this:

"Why Everybody Loves Phonzie

Inside Alphonso Davies’s amazing journey to become the best Canadian soccer player of all time."

https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/alphonso-davies-soccer-world-cup/

Big article and it looks like the cover next month. 

 

Edit: Nothing super new to people like us but maybe something to grab the Canadian casuals out there.

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"As for Davies, the Canadian will be at the World Cup with his national team (his debut in a major international tournament, an event in which he will be able to showcase his powerful attacking arsenal."

From the Marca article. Is the Gold Cup not a major international tournament or is this shoddy reporting?

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1 minute ago, kohanz said:

"As for Davies, the Canadian will be at the World Cup with his national team (his debut in a major international tournament, an event in which he will be able to showcase his powerful attacking arsenal."

From the Marca article. Is the Gold Cup not a major international tournament or is this shoddy reporting?

I doubt the International media gives a shit about the Gold Cup

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Macra being a Spanish outlet would probably consider Copa America to be a major tournament, probably ahead of the Olympics. 

But yeah, I would say the Olympics, Gold Cup, ACON and the Asian Cup are all of secondary importance despite technically being major tournaments. 

Davies is the youngest goal scorer (and I believe the first born in the 2000s) to feature in a "major" tournament. 

Edit: On second thought, I am not sure if I would include Olympics as a major tournament relative to the others. It may be major in terms of eyeballs, but it's basically a U-23 tournament with some over-aged players sprinkled in, so I don't really consider it in the same vein as the others.

Also, I don't believe it is a FIFA tournament (if that matters). Nor is it put on by a regional confederation. 

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