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Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies opens up about his refugee background and how it shaped him

Alphonso Davies is on course to be one of football's biggest stars of the decade. At 20, the Canada international is already a Champions League winner with Bayern Munich and rated as one of the best defenders in the world, but it is his backstory, as a child born in a refugee camp to parents who fled from war in Liberia, which makes his journey to the top so remarkable.

Davies spent the first five years of his life as a refugee in Ghana before being re-settled with his family in Edmonton, Canada, where he learned to play football with Free Footie, an organisation which provided facilities, equipment and transport for children unable to afford kit to play.