As of this writing, Charlie Davies is currently undergoing an unspecified surgery after being a passenger in a one-car accident (that’s the car pictured above) on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia that tragically resulted in a second passenger losing her life, while the condition of the driver is unknown.

The USSF initially said that Davies’ injuries could be career threatening before retracting that statement for lack of information.

More to come on this, but so far Freddy Adu has said it best:

UPDATE: The Washington Post’s Steven Goff has the details on Davies’ injuries:

USA national team forward Charlie Davies suffered a lacerated bladder, fractures to the tibia and femur in his right leg, facial fractures and a left elbow fracture in the one-car accident that killed a female passenger early Tuesday morning.

He will be hospitalized at least a week and additional operations will be required.

“Injuries of this nature usually require a recovery period of six to 12 months and extensive rehabilitation,” team doctor Dan Kalbac said. “Due to Charlie’s fitness level, his prognosis for recovery and his ability to resume high-level competition is substantially improved.”

Obviously this most likely rules Davies out for the World Cup next summer and who knows how long after that, but at this point it sounds like he’s just lucky to be alive so we should all just be thankful for that.

Good luck with your recovery, Charlie, and get well soon.

It has been a slow and depressing past couple of weeks with the United States U20 team falling out of the World Cup so early. To raise spirits, and bring back some of the creative flair this site has shown, I composed a poem for you guys about American soccer. I am predominately a fiction writer, but I hope you guys enjoy this little change up.

American Football

I’ve run the fields with
the other patrician boys
putting foot to ball
our cleats born towards
the screaming Earth
it lacerates and breaks and bleeds
and sprays on us
like something from Lucan

Do you recognize us?
The American boys
playing football?

Well, that wasn’t pretty at all.

Aside from a few bright spots from the forwards and midfielders the USA was completely dominated by Germany today. Even before the penalty was given up the Germans looked most likely to score. Brek Shea’s haircut had a few nice runs down the left, but overall the American performance deserved the 3 – 0 result.

Opara seemed our only semi-competent defender. Thomas Rongen will definitely have to shake some stuff up at the back if we are to advance from the group stage. Disagree with me if you think I’m wrong, but I think 4 – 3 – 3 is a terrible formation for American soccer. It never seems to suit us well.

That’s all for now. I don’t want to dwell on this one all too much.

So, while the USA came away with a deserved win, here are some of thoughts and observations on the game:

- Great headed goals by Dempsey and Altidore. After going down 1 – 0 the USA was able to come back and score two goals at the end of the first half. Great poise from the boys in stripes.

- It should’ve been more comfortable. Some blame can go to the referee after he waved off a perfectly legitimate goal by Jozy Altidore that would’ve had the USA up 3 – 1, but some sloppy finishing and defending kept this game close till the end.

- Jonathan Bornstein is not a good option at leftback. I can’t even begin try to figure out why he cleared a ball with his weak foot towards the middle of the pitch. That’s a JV High School mistake, and it led to El Salvador’s goal. We need DeMerrit and Gooch back in the middle so Bocanegra can return to playing leftback. I don’t know much about Edgar Castillo so I’ll let you guys fill me in on whether you think he is a better backup then Bornstein.

- Kyle Beckerman?

- Stuart Holden had a strong showing as a super sub. He worked hard on the right and created chances.

- Bob Bradley remembered Jose Francisco Torres exists.

- Charlie Davies gave the defenders trouble all night. He didn’t get on the scoreboard, but he created space kept the El Salvadorians busy.

- The United States midfield was weak tonight. Whether it was Bradley and Feilhaber or Bradley and Beckerman the midfield pairing was not able to get a very good grip on the game. It’ll be interesting to see what having Jermaine Jones in the squad adds to this team. Right now we’re having trouble dictating play in the middle of the field.

Well, The Adu finally got his move — a one-year loan keeping him within Portugal at Belenenses (that’s going to be fun to spell all season). So, it’s a same league, new team, better situation(?) scenario for Freddy that really should work out for him. But, of course, that’s what we thought about Monaco, too. For his sake I hope it works out, because he might go postal if it doesn’t, and I’m not familiar with Portuguese laws.

The other recently announced move sees (only slightly more) peripheral US MNT forward Chris Rolfe going from the Chicago Fire to Danish club AaB Aalborg next January. Rolfe is 26 and has 10 caps with the nat team, but could moving to Europe, especially a league known for its developmental qualities like the Danish Superliga, bring something extra out of him and make him a threat to, say, an inexplicable new regular like Conor Casey? Or will Bob Bradley quickly erase all memory of Rolfe now that he no longer plays in the MLS? Hope for the former, but expect the latter.

Perhaps the most interesting deadline shuffling related to a Yank abroad is the addition of free agent Jan Vennegoor. Bottom line here: they now have a buttload of strikers. The talented 30-year-old Vennegoor adds to the already dense group that includes Daniel Cousin, Caleb Folan, another recent acquisition in Kamel Ghilas, and, of course, Jozy. Playing time could be tight, but Jozy should be able to prove himself worthy among that bunch. The only thing is that any slip in form could put him in a treacherous hole.

So there you go. Oh, and we’ve got a World Cup Qualifier this weekend, too. That’ll be fun. More there later…

(One more thing: Go read this post by Ty Duffy right now. Seriously, do it.)

Charlie Davies — the Azteca Stunner himself — gave an encore performance in his debut for French club Sochaux by scoring both their goals in a 3-2 loss to Ligue 1 defending champions Bordeaux.

His recent form for both country and now club should leave no more doubters as to his importance with the US MNT. Charlie Davies is a vital talent and a deadly weapon.

Now just imagine him paired with an in-form Jozy and you should be leaking fluids from every orifice of your body.

Meanwhile, back home, ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons has published an account of his trip to Mexico for last week’s World Cup Qualifier that you really should read. It’s a nice look at the terminal danger, psychotic importance, and painfully obvious shortcomings of the US team that smacked a shocked newcomer in the face.

Maybe a voice as loud as The Sports Guy’s questioning Bob Bradley’s tactical failures will help.

(U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A!)

Blog is here.

He looks good in the rossoneri.

Here’s a good article about the deal and a few words from Gooch on the US MNT’s newfound domestic fame. [Canadian Press]

After falling behind 1-0 just before halftime, Kyle Beckerman equalized quick in the second half and Kenny Cooper, who came on in the 76th minute eventually sealed the win in extra time with a penalty kick after taking a boot to the gut. So the US advances to the semis and…I still can’t get excited about this tournament.

Is it just me or do you guys feel the same way?

[Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images]

Tomorrow’s game against Grenada is at 9PM EST on FSC. Here is the original roster announced for the cup:

GOALKEEPERS- Jon Busch (Chicago Fire), Troy Perkins (Valarenga), Luis Robles (FC Kaiserslautern)

DEFENDERS- Steve Cherundolo (Hannover 96), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Clarence Goodson (IK Start), Jay Heaps (New England Revolution), Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew), Michael Parkhurst (FC Nordsjaellands), Heath Pearce (Hansa Rostock)

MIDFIELDERS- Davy Arnaud (Kansas City Wizards), Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Colin Clark (Colorado Rapids), Sam Cronin (Toronto FC), Brad Evans (Seattle Sounders), Stuart Holden (Houston Dynamo), Logan Pause (Chicago Fire), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)

FORWARDS- Freddy Adu (AS Monaco), Brian Ching (Houston Dynamo), Kenny Cooper (FC Dallas), Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF), Santino Quaranta (D.C. United)

And here are the seven additions made by Bob Bradley earlier this week:

– Jozy Altidore

– Jonathan Bornstein

– Conor Casey

– Ricardo Clark

– Benny Feilhaber

– Brad Guzan

– Sacha Kljestan

I’m a little disappointed to see a slumping Sacha Klejstan get the call ahead of en fuego duel-citizenship holding Mikkel Diskerud, but such is the way of the Bob.