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Davies pushes U.S. soccer squad

Published 07/08/09
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Charlie Davies and the U.S. will play Honduras in D.C. Wednesday night.
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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...

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