From the archive· August 23, 2020
Alphonso Davies
Alphonso Davies was born in 2000 in Buduburam, a refugee camp in Ghana, to parents who had fled Liberia's civil war. Resettled in Edmonton at five, he helped raise his younger siblings while his parents worked opposite shifts, and learned the game in Free Footie, a free league for kids who couldn't afford to play. On 23 August 2020, aged nineteen, he started at left-back as Bayern Munich beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Lisbon to win the Champions League — making Davies the first Canadian man ever to lift the trophy.