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Liam Millar’s resolve to return from injury might prove a lodestar for wobbly Canadian World Cup squad<\/a>
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Publish Date: 2026-03-30 16:02:00<\/a>
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Every team has an unlikely leader \u2014 not the best player, and not the biggest personality, but a player whose presence speaks to something larger about the game and its possibilities. Some players lead by being part of the team at all.<\/p>\n

For Canada\u2019s men, that player might be Liam Millar.<\/p>\n

In Oct. 2024, in a game with his English side Hull, Millar took an inside step and heard a crack in his knee. He didn\u2019t feel any pain. He wasn\u2019t even sure he\u2019d hurt himself. Only the sound gave him pause. He\u2019d broken his arm before, and it had made a similar sound. He wondered if he\u2019d somehow broken his leg.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s physiotherapists came onto the field, and they ran through their tests. Millar still felt no pain. Maybe his knee had just cracked like knuckles.<\/p>\n

He stayed in the game but soon realized that something was more deeply wrong. His kneecap felt loose, as though it had lost its anchor. \u201cThe weirdest sensation I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He came out. The physios told him that an injury like his \u2014 a potential injury, at that point \u2014 will diagnose itself. Knees are self-barometers. Millar drove home without difficulty. He went downstairs to his kitchen to get a bite and ran back up the stairs to test himself. He still felt fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I might be okay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He went to bed and slept for a few hours before he woke up at 3 a.m., his knee painful and swollen. He regarded it in the semidarkness and knew: He\u2019d torn his ACL, the nightmare injury for soccer players, especially for the workhorses and ground coverers, for…<\/p>\n

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