Cruciate ligament rupture in March
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Alphonso Davies suffered a cruciate ligament tear at the Canadian national team in March, which met with great outrage. Less than three months later, FC Bayern, according to representatives of the Canadian Football Association, “exchanged extensively about the circumstances of the national player’s serious violation”. In addition, the Munich team will receive compensation from FIFA, as the association announced.
In March, both FC Bayern and Davies consultant Nick Huoseh made serious accusations towards Canada. “This bad injury could have been avoided 100 percent,” said Huoseh at the time. “From our point of view, sending an obviously injured player with a battered knee without a well-founded medical clarification to a twelve-hour intercontinental flight is grossly negligent and a clear violation of the medical duty of care,” said Munich club chief Jan-Christian Dreesen.
“At a meeting in Munich, the CEO of FC Bayern, Jan-Christian Dreesen, made it clear that the Canadian association had not fully met its protection obligations to Alphonso Davies. Like all other national associations, Canada Soccer is obliged to prioritize the health of players,” says the statement of the German record champions. In addition, the Munich team announced that “contact with the national associations of the undertook to deepen FC Bayern players in order to point out even more urgently to fulfill protection obligations in injury cases”.
According to the association, Bayern will receive compensation from the World Football Association in the Davies case as part of the FIFA protection program. Nothing is known about the height. Davies will probably be available to the association again in November.