They’d done the hard part without him. Not just hard. Historically hard.
When the Canadian men sealed a place at the World Cup for the first time in a lifetime in March, the most remarkable part of this most remarkable journey was that it had been sealed without the country’s talisman. Alphonso Davies had missed the entirety of the second half of Concacaf qualification as John Herdman’s unlikely, unheralded men from the north topped the continent to book their spot in Qatar.
