Hasan Salihamidzic lends his son – 19-year-old Munich player plays for Alphonso Davies’ former club

Created: 07/08/2022, 20:07

By: Patrick Mayer

Sports director of FC Bayern: Hasan Salihamidzic.

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FC Bayern lends Hasan Salihamidzic's son to the Vancouver Whitecaps in Canada.

Previously, Nick Salihamidzic had defended his father's work.

Munich – Alphonso Davies’ steep career began with the Vancouver Whitecaps, which led to the Champions League victory in 2020.

The Canadian has long been a permanent fixture at FC Bayern, even though he's only 21 years old.

At the beginning of 2019, the German Bundesliga record champions paid the then only 18-year-old a whopping ten million euros.

FC Bayern loan Nick Salihamidzic to Vancouver

People know each other in Munich and Vancouver.

This now facilitated a lending business.

Nick Salihamidzic, the son of FCB sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic, is going to Canada on loan for a year and a half.

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This was announced by the Major League Soccer (MLS) club this Friday (July 8).

His father had traveled with him to British Columbia on the US border and was there at the official presentation of the 19-year-old.

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Nick Salihamidzic had previously extended his contract with the Bundesliga giants until the end of June 2025.

Most recently, the right-back played for FC Bayern's U19s and for Bayern Munich's second team in the Regionalliga Bayern.

He remained without his own goal or an assist.

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In the Uefa Youth League in particular, the outside player reportedly had problems keeping up at the highest level.

All four games in which he was on the pitch were lost.

The Bayern offspring did not score a single goal.

Hasan Salihamidzic's son: defeats with Bayern's offspring in Europe

Instead, there was a 0:2 against FC Barcelona, ​​a 0:4 against Dynamo Kyiv and Benfica Lisbon as well as a 0:2 against the Portuguese.

In the game against Kyiv, Salihamidzic couldn't get a grip on the nimble left winger Samba Diallo.

The young Dynamo striker scored two goals and is now being courted by FC Bayern, of all people.

Son of Bayern sports director Hasan Salihamidzic: Nick Salihamidzic.

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Nick Salihamidzic recently caused a stir when he defended the Bayern boss's transfer work on social media - apparently upset by the criticism of his father.

"After this transfer window, remember what you said, there's no turning back after all the comments," he wrote on Twitter: "You all switch so sick quickly - a player like Sané is brought in, everyone escalates sick, then plays the player is not good, but Brazzo is to blame.”

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He is due to appear in Vancouver, meanwhile, for the Whitecaps' second team in North America's third division.

In the Western Conference of the MLS Next Pro, the team took sixth place out of eleven as of July 8th.

The league consists of 21 franchises from the United States and Canada.

Only youth teams from the big clubs compete here.

The top four teams from each of the Eastern and Western Conferences qualify for the playoffs.