Pacific FC announced on Thursday afternoon that fullback Duran Lee will miss the 2021 CPL season, having sustained a ruptured Achilles tendon in training recently.

Lee, a 25-year-old Toronto native, signed with Pacific in March after spending the 2020 season with FC Edmonton, for whom he played twice at the Island Games in PEI.

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Prior to joining the Eddies, Lee first appeared in the CPL in 2019 for HFX Wanderers FC, joining them mid-season from League1 Ontario’s Vaughan Azzurri after impressing in a Canadian Championship tie against the CPL club.

The Pacific squad is currently in pre-season training at the Island Training Centre in Langford, B.C.