For the 2010 World Cup, U.S. Soccer has announced it has chosen its preliminary 30-player roster. Hometown newspapers proclaimed news of local players making the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup roster, but one individual, Charlie Davies, who did not make the cut, dominates headlines about the U.S. Soccer World Cup roster nationwide. Soccer media and many American soccer fans were rooting for Charlie Davies to make the cut, but his recovery from a new fatal car crash last fall has held back the young soccer player from playing.
The roster for the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup
U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Bob Bradley will cut the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup roster down to 23 players 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 turning up 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 and the ‘motley collection’
While Charlie Davies did not make the U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup preliminary roster, Bradley’s so-called “motley collection” of forwards has been reported by the New York Times. Jozy Altidore, the youngest, is considered the most talented. Veteran center forward Brian Ching made the cut despite a hamstring strain. Passing off Davies, Bradley chose Edson Buddle of the Los Angeles Galaxy and American striker Herculez Gomez, 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’ accident
Charlie Davies is a 23-year-old from New Hampshire and Boston College. According to the Associated Press, Davies was in his first season with French soccer club Sochaux when he was seriously injured in a crash as he was heading to George Washington Parkway in Virginia. The crash 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 was left with a ruptured bladder, and bleeding on the brain.
2010 World Cup dates
On Monday, the U.S. Soccer preliminary 2010 World Cup team will begin practicing in Princeton, NJ. U.S. Soccer 2010 World Cup dates include exhibitions against the Czech Republic on May 25 in East Hartford, Conn., and Turkey four days later 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 from the FIFA World Cup in 2006 during the first round, open the tournament against one of the 2010 World Cup favorites, England.
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