Charlie Davies Resumes Training With His French Club Sochaux

SOCHAUX, France -- American forward Charlie Davies has resumed training less than six months after he was nearly killed in a car accident.

Still recovering from injuries sustained in the Oct. 13 crash in Virginia, Davies rejoined his Sochaux club last week after several weeks of rehabilitation. The club says he went for a jog Monday morning.

The 23-year-old player will keep working with a physiotherapist before joining his teammates in 2-4 weeks.

Davies was likely to be on the U.S. World Cup squad before the crash.

His injuries included two broken bones in his right leg, a broken and dislocated left elbow, a broken nose, forehead and eye socket, a ruptured bladder and bleeding on the brain.

With all due respect to Shaq and Dwight Howard, I'm nominating Charlie Davies as a new candidate for the "Superman" nickname. Just look at the laundry list of injuries he suffered, and less than 6 months later, he's already back to training?! I mean, Shaq does (or, used to) discard defenders like rag dolls, but the man is (at least) 350 pounds. That's what he should do. And Howard is a 7-foot tall black man who can dunk. So what? Charlie Davies clearly has superhuman healing powers, which easily makes him more worthy of the superman title than Shaq or Howard. Case closed. Hopefully, Superman can continue his faster-than-a-speeding-bullet recovery and rep the U.S. (and New Hampshire) on the field at the World Cup in June.

Davies Return for World Cup Feasible?

""The World Cup is easy for me to be back for," said Davies. "I want to get back to France, and I don't want to just get back -- I want to be good."

 October 13, 2009 Davies was facing life-threatening injuries, including a broken leg, punctured blatter and several other minor injuries.  Three months later he is jogging with lateral movements planning his comeback for the 2010 World Cup.  This would clearly be a huge accomplishment for Davies, and a great addition back to the injury plagued US Team.

"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. "When everybody heard about the accident, including myself, it was like, 'OK, this is going to be a long one' -- and it's still going to be a long one, but to see his progress is pretty amazing."

Regardless of what happens, keep prayin' for the hometown boy and we'll hope to see him back in boots in no time.