Some lucky young soccer players will have an opportunity for a close-up encounter with Whitecaps soccer star later this month, when the teen sensation appears at the Whitecaps Langley summer camp for young players.

The team announced Davies will make an appearance at a yet-to-be announced time during the event for U7 to U14 boys and girls which will run from Aug. 27 to Aug. 31.

The 17-year-old when he signed a contract in the middle of the 2016 season.

In July 2018, the Whitecaps said Davies would transfer to Bayern Munich at the end of the season, for a fixed transfer fee and additional compensation that could total as much as $22 million (U.S.) for the Whitecaps, the most ever received by a MLS club.

Whitecaps FC co-owner Jeff Mallett called it 鈥渁 landmark transfer for our club, country, and league.鈥�

Mallet said the ownership group was committed to investing 100 per cent of the funds back into the sporting side of the club.鈥�

鈥淎s a kid, I always dreamed of a moment like this,鈥� Davies said at the time.

鈥淓ver since I joined the 鈥楥aps when I was 14, they moulded me throughout the years into the pro that I鈥檝e become.鈥�

Davies is from Edmonton.

He was born in a refugee camp in Ghana, to Liberian parents during the second Liberian civil war, which displaced more than 450,000 people. His family came to Canada as refugees when he was five.

Davies scored his first professional goal at the age of 15.

He became a Canadian citizen on June 6, 2017.

Earlier this year, Whitecaps FC announced that all Lower Mainland summer camps would feature longer three-hour sessions and they will include a skills challenge focusing on dribbling, shooting, passing, receiving and turning.

Select players from all summer camps will be invited to participate in a skills challenge finale at the Whitecaps FC National Soccer Development Centre (NSDC) at UBC.

dan.ferguson@langleytimes.com
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