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U.S. Soccer Denies Charlie Davies A Chance At 2010 World Cup

The preliminary 30-player roster for the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup has been announced. Hometown newspapers reported news of local players making the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup roster, but one person who did not make the cut, Charlie Davies, is capturing U.S. Soccer World Cup headlines nationwide. American soccer fans and soccer media were rooting for Charlie Davies to make the team, but his recovery from a near fatal car crash last fall has come up short.

The U.S. Soccer World Cup 2010 roster

The U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup roster will be cut down to 23 players by U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley on June 1. While Bradley deemed Charlie Davies not yet ready to play at the World Cup level, others he selected were perceived by some as the cheapest personal loans. Real Salt Lake’s Robbie Findley is one name that is surfacing among Bradley’s dissenters. According to U.S. Soccer Daily, missed a game last weekend because of an injury and has since failed to produce this season. On the matter, they asked, “You mean to tell me that an 80 percent Charlie Davies can’t add the same things that a dinged up Robbie Findley can?”

Charlie Davies’ motley replacements

While Charlie Davies did not get a cut on the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup preliminary roster, the New York Times is reporting that Bradley selected a “motley collection” of forwards. Jozy Altidore, the youngest, is considered the most talented. Veteran center forward Brian Ching, despite a hamstring strain, also made the cut. Instead of Davies, Bradley selected Edson Buddle of the Los Angeles Galaxy and Herculez Gomez, an American striker who plays in Mexico. “He remained part of the conversation right up until yesterday,” Bradley said Tuesday announcing the roster on ESPNews. “We just felt right now, for Charlie, it is in his best interest to continue his rehab and continue to get back to where he was last year.”

Charlie Davies’ near fatal accident

Charlie is 23-years old, and he is from New Hampshire and Boston College. The Associated Press reports that Davies was in his first season with French soccer club Sochaux when he was seriously hurt in a crash on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia that killed another passenger. Davies had a broken and dislocated left elbow, a broken right femur, tibia and fibula, and a broken nose, forehead and eye socket. He also underwent a ruptured bladder and bleeding on the brain.

The 2010 World Cup dates

In Princeton, NJ, the U.S. Soccer preliminary 2010 World Cup team will start practicing Monday. Dates for the U.S. Soccer World Cup dates will include exhibitions against the Czech Republic on May 25 in East Hartford, CT, and four days later compete against Turkey in Philadelphia. U.S. Soccer opens the 2010 World Cup dates with an exhibition against Australia in South Africa on June 5. The Americans, eliminated in the first round of the FIFA World Cup in 2006, open the tournament against England, one of the 2010 World Cup favorites.

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