It was the moment he had been waiting for his whole life.
On October 23, 2016 at BC Place, Brett Levis made his Major League Soccer debut in Vancouver Whitecaps FC’s regular season finale against Portland Timbers – the culmination of an improbable journey from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Then, the unthinkable happened.
Just a few minutes after entering the match as a late second-half sub, Levis went to ground on a tackle from Alvas Powell and suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
“In the span of 10 minutes, I probably had the highest point in my career, which was making my MLS debut, to probably the lowest point in my career, to get such a long term injury,” Levis told whitecapsfc.