U.S. Soccer announced it has chosen its preliminary 30-player roster for the 2010 World Cup. 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. Many American soccer fans, along with the media, were rooting for Charlie Davies to make the team, but his recovery from last fall’s near fatal car crash has come up short.
The roster for the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup
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. Bradley believes Charlie Davies is not ready to play at the World Cup lever, and he is facing much criticism for choosing other players that many believe are the cheapest personal loans at hand. One name that surfaced among Bradley’s dissenters is Real Salt Lake’s Robbie Findley. Findley, according to U.S. Soccer Daily, left a game last weekend with an injury and has failed to produce this season. U.S. Soccer Daily is asking for answers, writing, “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’ accident leaves him off the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup preliminary roster, the New York Times reports that Bradley selected “a motley collection” of forwards. Jozy Altidore, the youngest, is considered the most talented. Despite a hamstring strain, veteran center forward Brian Ching made the cut. Instead of Davies, Bradley chose Los Angeles Galaxy Edson Buddle and American striker Herculez Gomez, who plays in Mexico. “He remained part of the conversation right up until yesterday,” said Bradley Tuesday while 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 suffered from a ruptured bladder and bleeding on the brain.
The 2010 World Cup dates
The U.S. Soccer preliminary 2010 World Cup team starts practicing Monday in Princeton, NJ. 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. Opening the 2010 World Cup dates in South Africa, U.S Soccer will play against Australia on June 5. Eliminated in the first round of the FIFA World Cup in 2006, the Americans open the tournament against England, one of the 2010 World Cut favorites.
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