Davies pushes U.S. soccer squad

Work ethic fuels summer of success for team playing in D.C. tonight

WASHINGTON - Two games on different continents in less than a week? That was hardly an ordeal for U.S. national team forward Charlie Davies.

After all, this is an athlete whose soccer-loving father was more than a bit disappointed when his son failed in the first attempt to make a team in a local kids' league in New Hampshire.

The fallout?

"Three hours a day of training as a 6-year-old," Davies said. "That's when I developed my passion for soccer."

Davies' father, a native of Gambia, must have known what he was...