Quote :

"Davies suffered a lacerated bladder and fractures to the tibia and femur bones in his right leg. He also suffered facial fractures and a left elbow fracture. Davies was air-lifted to the hospital where a team of doctors first repaired a ruptured bladder and then inserted titanium rods in both the tibia, the bone in the lower leg, and the femur, which is the thigh bone, with no complications. Davies will be hospitalized for at least a week and additional surgeries will be required to stabilize his left elbow fracture and possibly the facial fractures."

http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Mens-National-Team/2009/10/US-Mens-National-Team-Forward-Charlie-Davies-Out-of-Surgery-and-in-Serious-buut-Stable-Condition.aspx

10/13/2009 10:12:17 PM

its good to know he's going to be ok and could eventually play within the year. i'm sure he will be rehabbing as fast as he can to play in the world cup, but i'm just really glad to hear he's alive and surgery went alright.

10/13/2009 11:48:21 PM

^Could he even be ready for the World Cup with bone breaks that bad though?

10/14/2009 12:55:40 AM

in the article it said 6-12 months, but maybe even sooner due to his level of fitness. I really doubt he'll be ready though, an accident that bad is hard to recover from and to get into world cup form would be even harder

10/14/2009 1:02:25 AM

10/14/2009 1:06:57 AM

Plus they have to get the rosters in like 2 months before the start of the World Cup. But they might be able to drop him due to injury if he isn't ready to play.

10/14/2009 1:17:07 AM

daaammmnnn. just saw the headline on cnn. hopefully he'll play in the cup, but i'm glad to hear he's alright. sounds like it was a pretty nasty accident.

10/14/2009 1:19:16 AM

I seriously doubt he'll be playing in the World Cup, but he's lucky to even have a chance at playing again after that.

Maybe BB should ask McBride to come back? Although Davies wasn't exactly world class... Casey/Altidore with Cooper on the bench will not do much in a World Cup. Dempsey starting as a true forward makes the most sense to me, I'll guess we'll have to see.

Before all the Davies shit went down, they announced a Denmark friendly at Denmark in November. Plus we already had a Holland friendly scheduled so we'll get at least a couple of more chances against good competition to experiment with some more forwards.

And we could always bring back Eddie Johnson.......

10/14/2009 6:04:49 AM

Damn. From the looks of the vehicle, Davies is very lucky to be alive. I don't think he has any chance to play in World Cup 2010. Maybe 2014. Maybe. He broke his femur and tibia, among other things. He'll be lucky to ever play at a high level again. It will take a long, long time to heal physically and mentally, build up fitness, find a team, find any kind of form, and especially to find the nerve to play as reckless and full throttle as he has been playing. Sucks. He was arguably one of the most promising young players on the roster.

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 7:45 AM. Reason : ]

10/14/2009 7:45:26 AM

Quote :

"Plus they have to get the rosters in like 2 months before the start of the World Cup. But they might be able to drop him due to injury if he isn't ready to play."

That can't be done. England let Ronney on the 2006 team even though they didn't know how good he would be after he broke his foot. They would not have been allowed to drop him, if they felt he was not ready to go after they added him. On the other hand the USA replaced Corey Gibbs with Greg Berhalter after Gibbs tore up his knee in a friendly a week before they left for Germany in 2006. You have to hur yourself after you make the roster in order to be replaced and not before.

10/14/2009 12:06:03 PM

This sucks.

Hopefully he can play again and use this as motivation. I pretty much followed him as a relative unknown who played in Sweden to a national team starter.

10/14/2009 3:55:31 PM

This game was pretty much an after-thought to me after the Honduras game... but now, all I want to see is us go out there and beat that ass, and get a few stanky leg celebrations in to honor CD9

One thing is for sure though, even if that doesn't happen... I won't be on here criticizing like I always do. You can't fault these guys for having a few things on their minds other than a meaningless WCQ when we've already wrapped up qualification.

10/14/2009 4:29:16 PM

^well said

10/14/2009 4:34:11 PM

-----------Howard-------------
Dolo---Gooch--Boca---Bornstein
------Feilhaber--Bradley--------
Holden----------------Donovan
-------Altidore--Casey---------

Bench: Guzan, Conrad, Torres, Rogers, Cooper, Spector, Clark


Kind of surprised at all the starters... I figured Torres and Cooper would start. I also thought Hejduk would at least make the bench

10/14/2009 7:05:40 PM

^I'm not shocked since Casey had a good game.


Qualified From UEFA
Italy
Germany
Denmark
Switzerland
Slovakia
Spain
England
Serbia
Netherlands

UEFA Playoff Teams
Portugal
Greece
Slovenia
Russia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ukraine
France
Rep. of Ireland

If things happen the correct way then we could have a World Cup without France, or Argentina.

10/14/2009 7:14:57 PM

^ what is the "correct way"

France will be one of the seeded playoff teams and will more than likely, advance
As it stands now, Argentina will qualify without the playoff... even if things change and they have to go to the playoff, the "correct way" would think they'd win that too


yeah I didn't mean Cooper, I meant Spector, my bad

10/14/2009 7:19:34 PM

^I meant it is possible to have both of those teams miss out on 2010.

10/14/2009 7:29:27 PM

FORZA SHEVA

10/14/2009 7:39:44 PM

Sorry Sweden, no World Cup 2010 for you

10/14/2009 7:45:37 PM

I'm trying to get the Argentina game on the web, but it looks like the Spanish networks have pretty much shut down illegal feeds on there.

10/14/2009 7:46:54 PM

^^ LULZ

I am putting my UEFA playoff backing behind Ukraine.

10/14/2009 7:52:26 PM

Red card for Uruguay... Argentina should see the game out now

and scored on the free kick from the red, that's it


good news for Honduras/Costa Rica that they won't have to face Argentina in the playoff

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 7:56 PM. Reason : 1-0 Argentina]

10/14/2009 7:54:53 PM

88' Argentina 1 Uruguay 0

10/14/2009 7:56:21 PM

Adrian Healey on the pbp... I wonder what happened to JPDC

10/14/2009 7:57:19 PM

aaaand Casey comes back to earth with that miss


this game is wide open as hell

son of a bitch, Ruiz has two in like 5 minutes, 2-0 Ticos

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 8:28 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2009 8:18:57 PM

I know Davies was hurt in a wreck, but that isn't an excuse for the poor play of our back line.

Good thing we won the other night, or we would be heading to Uruguay.

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 8:58 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2009 8:58:09 PM

it's too bad Jozy should probably come off with that yellow card because he has been playing out of his mind tonight

10/14/2009 9:01:18 PM

Halftime

T&T 1 Mexico 0
CR 2 USA 0
El Sal 0 Hon 0

10/14/2009 9:03:41 PM

Bradley with a goal to make it 2-1 CRC

CRC head coach and an assistant just got sent off.

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 9:54 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2009 9:45:47 PM

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

10/14/2009 9:58:36 PM

FUCK YES

10/14/2009 9:59:02 PM

GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL GOAL

Header of a corner in 90+4!!!!!!

10/14/2009 9:59:19 PM

BORNSTEIN FTT

10/14/2009 10:00:52 PM

I wish I could see some footage of Honduras fans finding out about that result

10/14/2009 10:02:57 PM

Honduras just exploded and Costa Rica just imploded.

10/14/2009 10:04:02 PM

Torres was the key to that comeback... he was such a calming influence on that midfield

10/14/2009 10:05:13 PM

Casey played like shit. I mean, the best play he made all game was when he got yanked by the neck in the box on the no call. He was slow and had awful touch.

On the other hand, Jozy was totally busting his ass out there tonight.

10/14/2009 10:21:47 PM

THANK YOU CONOR CASEY AND LANDON DONOVAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If those 2 hadn't stepped it up on Saturday and sealed the deal I would not be alive right now. I would have died of a heart attack when a 94+ minute game tying goal sent us to the World Cup on the last day of qualifying.

[Edited on October 14, 2009 at 10:39 PM. Reason : .]

10/14/2009 10:39:09 PM

Rumor on Big Soccer is Gooch has a torn patella and is out 4 to 6 months.

10/14/2009 11:32:20 PM

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/honduras.htm

[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 12:41 AM. Reason : .]

10/15/2009 12:31:20 AM

^^yeah, that fall he took looked pretty unnatural, and i'm pretty sure you could see his knee buckle.


it's too bad. you could tell by the look on his face that he knew it was going to be a serious injury.

10/15/2009 12:36:10 AM

Increíble: ¡Honduras está en el Mundial!
Increíble, maravilloso, inolvidable e indescriptible. Estamos en el Mundial, sí, estamos en el Mundial...estamos en el Mundial. Después de 28 años volvemos y en el 2010 estaremos en Sudáfrica.

lol awesome headline... WE ARE IN WE ARE IN ... YES WE ARE IN


and LOL: El presidente de Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, anunció hoy que mañana habrá asueto nacional y agradeció a "los gringos" por haber facilitado "la visa para el Mundial"

[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 12:43 AM. Reason : announced tomorrow will be a national holiday and thanked the gringos for a visa to the world cup]

10/15/2009 12:42:41 AM

^Thanks for the translation. I sort of knew what they were saying, but not really because it took me 8 semesters to get from Spanish 101 through 201.

[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 12:48 AM. Reason : .]

10/15/2009 12:46:50 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8PAf9RrCe0

And then come the youtube videos!

10/15/2009 12:51:23 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfzYIRYdrOA

I like this one - the Honduran TV commentary of our goal. It's at like 6:50

10/15/2009 7:59:49 AM

^LOL! I wonder who they were pulling for? The announcer said, "Thank you United States!"

10/15/2009 10:56:16 AM

^^ Great announcer reaction on the goal

10/15/2009 11:46:08 AM

Hahaha the youtube comments are pretty emotional.

Quote :

"Siempre lo he dicho Estados Unidos nunca se regala!! siempre sale a ganar eliminado o clasificado!! me la suben!! Gracias Gabachos!! Thanks Yankees!!"

I have always said that the United States never gives anything away! They always go out to win, eliminated or qualified. They brought me up [in spirit]. Thanks Yanks.

Quote :

"Gracias GRINGOOOOSSS!... Por ser tan profesionales y salir a ganar el partido. Nos hicieron un gran favor y el pueblo de Honduras se los agradece de Corazón."

Thanks Gringos! For being so professional and going out to win the game. They did us a great favor and the people of Honduras are grateful to you from the heart.


Too bad we couldn't get Mexico knocked out and Costa Rica in automatically.

[Edited on October 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM. Reason : paste problem]

10/15/2009 12:07:37 PM

A visit to that Honduran restaurant during the World Cup would probably be pretty awesome... those fans are really cool. I'm really glad we could help them out

10/15/2009 12:16:36 PM

Jones cleared to join Team USA. Too bad he's still hurt.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/15/germany/2009/10/21/1574349/schalkes-jermaine-jones-cleared-to-play-for-united-states

10/21/2009 1:13:37 PM