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A year ago, David Edgar found himself in a spot he’d never been: absent from a training pitch to start the soccer season.

Just a few months earlier, while on vacation in Arizona, he’d been involved in a motor vehicle accident. He tore the meniscus and the posterior and medial collateral ligaments in his right knee.

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The damage was so severe he would go on to miss all of what should have been his second Major League Soccer season with the Vancouver Whitecaps.

“It was just bad luck,” Edgar said this week from the team’s training camp in Hawaii. “I was bitter to start. But you have to get over it.

“Someone said to me, ‘recovery only really starts to happen when you start to look forward.'”

Having his wife and young daughter as boosters helped with that.

“(Rehab) did take its toll some days,” he said. “I worked harder than I ever have in my life. There were times I thought (a healthy training session) would never come.