Alphonso Davies’s torn ACL threatens to rip apart Canada Soccer’s hard-won harmony

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Canada’s Alphonso Davies kicks the ball past Mexican defenders during a Concacaf Nations League semifinal match at SoFi Stadium. in Inglewood, Calif., on Mar 20.Alex Gallardo/Reuters

Cheating at the Olympics didn’t have that much impact on Canada’s soccer program. A few people were jettisoned, but after releasing a report on the matter so redacted that it read like a John Ashbery poem, Canada Soccer moved on. All it took was a few news cycles to wash its sporting sins clean.

This one might be different.

On Wednesday, Alphonso Davies’s European club, Bayern Munich, announced that he would undergo surgery for a torn ACL. He suffered the injury early in Canada’s third-place game against the United…

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