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Alphonso Davies

A New Hope

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Publisher Description

Built on years of interviews with friends, family, teachers, coaches, and teammates, the first biography of Alphonso Davies, the new face of Canadian men’s soccer


Arguably the most famous Canadian athlete on the planet, Alphonso Davies has been the subject of global attention after bursting onto the scene as a 15-year-old soccer sensation. Since then, he’s landed a multimillion dollar deal with German giant FC Bayern Munich and helped Canada reach the men's World Cup for the first time in 36 years.


Based on years of original reporting and extensive interviews with his friends, family members, teachers, coaches, teammates, and others from his inner circle, Alphonso Davies: A New Hope paints a complete portrait of the soccer star. The first biography about “Phonzie” covers every angle of his life and career — from the harsh realities of growing up in a refugee camp amidst the Liberian civil war, to the unique challenges of starting a new life in a foreign country, twice, to his trailblazing path as a Canadian megastar in the world’s most popular sport. Bringing together intimate details and never-before-told stories, author Farhan Devji pulls back the curtain on a person and player who has captured the hearts of a nation and become a shining light for refugees everywhere.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2023
May 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
ECW Press
SELLER
ECW Press Ltd.
SIZE
17.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Adil Reads ,

Potent biography of a young talent

First time authors are always wild cards. Fortunately this author had a tomb of content/research from his days at the Vancouver Whitecaps covering Davies and his mates as a feature content writer/producer/editor. The can’t-put-it-down feeling we experience with a great piece of fiction can be difficult to come by with something from the Biography section. I’ve read plenty of them and the real page-turners are those where I get to read about the people, places, and things — the local and global moments of the times — in the context of the person being written about. Farhan Devji gives us that in Alphonso Davies. While his writing does, at times, give the impression of a still wet-behind-the-ears author (he’s no Walter Isaacson, and that’s okay), Devji impressively weaves together a richly entertaining and surprisingly powerful biography of the young talent, chalk full of anecdotes from folks in the Davies orb and others who are proximally relevant to his story.