Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Charlie Davies Not Playing Soccer the Rest of 2009

Charlie Davies got out of surgery this today after a car accident on the George Washington Parkway (just over the river from DC, a roadway I know well) left him with injuries that were called not life-threatening but potentially career ending. This is pretty typical of US soccer luck, and we are all going to be very tempted to talk about how the US, over the past two years or so, hasn't been able to catch a break, or enjoy for very long the successes they have managed.

Beating Honduras in Honduras on Saturday should have been a fun thing to celebrate for a few days, as an example. But now, one of the guys who has helped step in and change the overall nature of the pace of the US attack is out, and who knows for how long.

It has been stated that Davies was not driving the car. Given the circumstances of the accident-single car, 3:15 in the morning, one person dead at the scene--there will be more to come on what exactly happened.

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