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Despite what you think if you were fortunate enough to see him on Thursday night, Alphonso Davies was not perfect.

Sure, the dazzling 16-year-old scored one goal and set up another as the Vancouver Whitecaps beat the New York Red Bulls 2-0 to advance to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League.

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And, yes, he would have been involved in more goals had Kekuta Manneh and, especially, Fredy Montero finished scoring chances presented to them by Davies.

Fine, we admit the teenager was easily the best player at B.C. Place on one of the best nights for the Whitecaps since they joined Major League Soccer in 2011.

But Davies, who takes his Grade 11 courses online with support from Burnaby Central high school, failed to get his schoolwork done after the game. Teenagers.

“I’m going to get onto him now because he didn’t do his homework last night because he had a late night and was arguably the man-of-the-match for us,” Whitecaps’ manager Carl Robinson said Friday after training. “It’s important to his mom and dad and it’s important to me. If he doesn’t do his homework, he won’t be playing.”