Just over an hour before Bayern Munich were set to kick off against Liverpool in one of the club’s most anticipated European matches in recent memory, Alphonso Davies walked out onto the pitch. The 18-year-old Canadian left winger broke from his hunched-over pose to pull his phone out of his training jacket pocket and took a 360-degree video of the Anfield grounds.



He was in awe of his surroundings, and the players he would soon line up with and play against.



“I was watching these guys when I was little,” Davies told The Athletic of his first Champions League experience. “You have to capture this moment. It’s incredible.”



It was a brief opportunity for Davies to take stock of how much his world has been turned on its head. Less than four months earlier, the teenage phenom spread the proverbial icing on the cake when he bagged a first-half brace for the Vancouver Whitecaps in his final game with the club after being the...