On Friday, the Canadian coach x announced the list of players he is counting on for the upcoming World Cup, and Promise David, who had hip tendon surgery less than four months ago, was also on it.
David (24) was injured on February 21 while playing for Union SG in the Belgian Pro League. He was told the recovery would take six months.
I didn’t think that was possible. I won’t lieDavid told TSN.
When I had to decide to have the surgery… they told me, “We don’t see people recovering quickly from this.” I kind of gave up.
Then he got encouraging call from Jesse Marsch, Canada’s head coach.
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Another player who took a break, the captain Alphonso Daviesmade the roster despite injuring his left hamstring earlier this month while playing for Bayern Munich.
We just wanted to go through the process with Alphonso and Bayern and make sure he’s ready to succeed and we don’t put any extra pressure on himMarsch told TSN, reports Hina.
Alphonso is a great personality and a great player for usand we wanted to make sure that we were preparing him in every way for success, that we were all cooperating in this process of getting back into the game.
Marsch said it is too early to say when Davies will play for Canada, the co-host of the World Cup, which plays its first Group B game on June 12 against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Toronto.
Will we be 100% ready with every player on the roster? No, we won’tMarsch said of the first game. But we feel we have enough players who play at a high level and are in really good shape… to get the result we need.
List of players of the Canadian national team for the World Cup:
Gatekeepers: Maxime Crépeau, Owen Goodman, Dayne St. Clair
Defenders: Moïse Bombito, Derek Cornelius, Alphonso Davies, Luc De Fougerolles, Alistair Johnston, Alfie Jones, Richie Laryea, Niko Sigur, Joel Waterman
Midfielders: Ali Ahmed, Tajon Buchanan, Mathieu Choinière, Stephen Eustáquio, Marcelo Flores, Ismaël Koné, Liam Millar, Jonathan Osorio, Nathan Saliba, Jacob Shaffelburg
Strikers: Jonathan David, Promise David, Cyle Larin, Tani Oluwaseyi.
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