Ives Galarcep at Soccerbyives.net and ESPN wrote a piece for ESPN on Charlie Davies’ remarkable recovery.  Davies isn’t over his injuries just yet, but his recovery up to this point has been nothing short of amazing.  Here are couple of excerpts from the article: Davies on a remarkable path to recovery

Less than four months after the crash that threatened to end his promising career, Davies is already jogging at a good rate and working on agility drills that would have seemed impossible just weeks earlier, when simply getting out of a wheelchair was an exhausting exercise.

“Charlie is pretty much light years ahead of where anybody would tell you he should be,” said Jim Hashimoto, the former U.S. national team trainer who is overseeing Davies rehabilitation.

“That’s what’s been driving me this whole time,” Davies said. “I’ve been looking at Web sites the whole time and they’re always saying, ‘We need to find a replacement for Charlie. We need to find someone because he’s not going to be back.’

“These people don’t know,” Davies said. “They don’t know me, and if they just knew me alone, let alone the determination and will I have now, you guys don’t know.

The entire article is fantastic and Ives even had a chance to talk to Oguchi Onyewu who is rehabbing alongside Davies.  Ives couldn’t fit everything into his ESPN article so he posted some other quotes on his blog found here, More on Davies Road to Recovery. Here are some excerpts from that blog post:

“I don’t want to just come back and be able just to play, and I didn’t want to be back and be the same person I was. I want to come back and be better. I want to build on the last Confederations Cup, where I was really able to show Coach Bradley and the players that I’m ready and can play at this level. Now, I want to be a player that people are watching out for.”

“I’ve definitely changed. I still feel like I’m going to be the outgoing, easy-going guy that I’ve always been, but I’ve definitely become more religious. Appreciate life much more than I did before.”

Davies is a fighter and I always believed he’d make a full recovery from this accident, but I have to admit that I never expected him to be this far along so soon. Give the articles a read and let me know what you think.

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