Davis, Charlie (soccer player)

Charlie davis
Charlie davis
general information
Full name	Charles Desmond Davis
Born	; Manchester , New Hampshire , USA
Citizenship	USA ; Gambia
Height	178 cm
The weight	72 kg
Position	attack
Club Information
Club	completed his career
Youth clubs
2004-2006	Boston Eagles College
Club career
National Team
Awards and medals
	Confederation Cups
Silver	South Africa 2009
	CONCACAF Gold Cups
Silver	USA 2009
	↑ The number of games and goals for a professional club is considered only for various leagues of national championships.; ↑ Number of games and goals for the national team in official matches.;

Charles Desmond (Charlie) Davis ( Eng. Charles Desmond "Charlie" Davies ; June 25, 1986, Manchester , New Hampshire , USA ) - American footballer , striker . He played for the US team .

Content

1 Club career
- 1.1 The early years
- 1.2 "Hammarby"
- 1.3 Sochaux
- 1.4 “DC United”
- 1.5 Return to Sochaux
- 1.6 Randers
- 1.7 "New England Revolution"
- 1.8 "Philadelphia Union"
2 Career in the team
3 Performance Statistics
4 Personal life
5 notes
6 References

Club career

The early years

Davis was brought into football by his father, a native of the Gambia , Kofi Davis. ^[2] He attended Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts , which he graduated in 2004. During this time, he scored 29 and 30 goals in junior and senior seasons, respectively. After that, he played for Boston College for three years. In the last season, Davis scored 15 times in 16 games. During college, he also played for the Westchester Flames club from the Premier Development League.

Hammarby

Davis was watched at Ajax ^[3] , however, he signed his first professional contract with Hammarby in December 2006. Charlie scored his first goal for the Swedish club on June 24, 2007 in the Intertoto Cup against KI Klaksvik . In the 2008 season, Davis became a key player in the team, scoring 15 goals in 27 matches.

Socho

On July 10, 2009, Davis moved to Sochaux ^[4] . In the French championship of the 2009/10 season, he managed to play in 8 matches and score 2 goals. On October 13, 2009, Davis was involved in a car accident, as a result of which he was seriously injured, and missed more than 15 months ^[5] .

DC United

In February 2011, Davis joined the club MLS “ DC United ” on a rental basis, designed for the season ^[6] . In the very first match for the club, in the game against Columbus Crew on March 19, he scored twice, replacing him in the 52nd minute. On June 24, he was fined $ 1,000 for a simulation in a match with Real Salt Lake . ^[7] In 26 matches of the 2011 season, Davis scored 11 goals, most of which came in the first half of the season. On December 1, DSC United announced that they would not activate the buyback option of the player indicated in the lease.

Return to Sochaux

Upon returning to Sochaux, Davis took part in two matches in which he spent 25 minutes on the field and did not score goals. At the end of the 2011/12 season, his contract with the club was terminated by mutual agreement of the parties ^[8] .

Randers

In the summer of 2012, Davis signed a two-year contract with the Danish Super League club Randers ^[9] . He made his debut for “horses” on July 22 in a match against Odense .

New England Revolution

On August 8, 2013, Davis was leased to the New England Revolution for the remainder of the MLS 2013 season ^[10] . He made his debut for the new club on August 17 in a match against the Chicago Fire . At the beginning of 2014, the contract between Davis and the Randers was terminated by mutual agreement, and the player moved to the New England Revolution camp on an ongoing basis ^[11] . He scored the first goal for the Revs on August 2, 2014 against the New York Red Bulls .

Philadelphia Union

In early August 2016, Davis was traded to the Philadelphia Union ^[12] . He made his debut for a new club on August 6 in a match against DC United. At the end of the 2017 season , Philadelphia did not renew the contract with Davis ^[13] .

On March 2, 2018, Charlie Davis announced his retirement as a football player. ^[14]

Team Career

Davis got into the preliminary application of the US youth team for the 2005 World Championship among youth teams , but remained outside the final composition ^[15] . In the same year, as part of the youth team, he participated in the Milk Cup . In the final match of the cup, in which the Americans beat the youth team of Northern Ireland with a score of 4: 1, he scored a hat-trick, and at the end of the tournament he was recognized as the most valuable player.

As part of the US Olympic team, Davis took part in the 2008 Olympic football tournament . At the tournament, he played in one match, coming on as a substitute in the game against the national team of Nigeria .

Davis debuted for the first US national team on June 2, 2007 in a friendly game with the Chinese national team . In the summer of the same year, he joined the national team for the America's Cup 2007 , where he entered the field in one match. He scored the first goal for the national team on October 15, 2008 in the qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup against the national team of Trinidad and Tobago . At the 2009 Confederations Cup, he took part in four matches and scored one goal against Egypt in the group stage.

Performance Statistics

Club	Season	League		Cup		League Cup		Cont. goblets		Total
Club	Season	Matches	Goals	Matches	Goals	Matches	Goals	Matches	Goals	Matches	Goals
Hammarby	2007	twenty	3	0	0	-	-	8	one	28	four
	2008	27	fourteen	four	one	-	-	0	0	31	fifteen
	2009	9	four	2	3	-	-	0	0	eleven	7
	Total	56	21	6	four	-	-	8	one	70	26
Sochaux	2009/10	8	2	0	0	-	-	0	0	8	2
→ DC United	2011	26	eleven	0	0	-	-	-	-	26	eleven
→ DC United	Total	26	eleven	0	0	-	-	-	-	26	eleven
Sochaux	2011/12	2	0	0	0	-	-	0	0	2	0
Sochaux	Total	10	2	0	0	-	-	0	0	10	2
Runners	2012/13	23	0	3	0	-	-	0	0	26	0
Runners	Total	23	0	3	0	-	-	0	0	26	0
→ New England Revolution	2013	four	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	four	0
New England Revolution	2014	eighteen	3	0	0	5	four	-	-	23	7
	2015	33	10	0	0	one	0	-	-	34	10
	2016	9	one	0	0	-	-	-	-	9	one
	Total	64	fourteen	0	0	6	four	-	-	70	eighteen
Philadelphia Union	2016	8	0	-	-	one	0	-	-	9	0
	2017	3	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	3	0
	Total	eleven	0	0	0	one	0	-	-	12	0
→ Betlehem steele	2017	one	one	-	-	-	-	-	-	one	one
→ Betlehem steele	Total	one	one	-	-	-	-	-	-	one	one
Total career		191	49	9	four	7	four	8	one	215	58

Personal life

On October 13, 2009, Davis, along with two of his acquaintances, drove early in the morning toward Washington , but lost control and crashed into a metal fence, as a result of which the car was torn in half. The accident killed a 22-year-old passenger. Davis himself received numerous facial injuries, fractures of the bones of the right leg and elbow, rupture of the bladder and hemorrhage in the brain ^[16] ^[17] . Davis missed the 2010 World Cup due to a disaster.

At the end of July 2016, Davis reported that in the spring he was diagnosed with a malignant neoplasm - liposarcoma , but now he is in remission ^[18] .

Notes

↑ Transfermarkt.com - 2000.
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↑ Frank Dell'Apa. Davies and Altidore highlight the new breed of US striker . ESPN FC (July 20, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Davies leaves Ajax without offer . Yanks Abroad (December 13, 2006). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Allen Ramsey . Davies: Sochaux Want Me To Develop Into A Big Time Player (English) , Goal.com (July 10, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Jeremiah Oshan. USMNT's Charlie Davies Makes Sochaux's Gameday Roster For First Time Since Injury . SB Nation (Dec 18, 2010). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Travis Clark. Davies ready for new phase in pro career . DC United (February 16, 2011). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Andrew Reeves. The bigger story behind Charlie Davies' dives . Deseret News (June 24, 2011). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Greg Seltzer. American Exports: Davies on his way out of Sochaux . MLSsoccer.com (July 4, 2012). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Alex Labidou. The forward, who hasn't featured for the US since 2009, returns to Scandinavia hoping to reignite his career . Goal.com (Jul 6, 2012). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Ives Galarcep. Revolution acquire Charlie Davies . Soccer By Ives (August 8, 2013). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Revolution acquires Charlie Davies on permanent basis . New England Revolution (January 9, 2014). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Colin Stephenson. Busy Philadelphia Union acquire Charlie Davies from New England Revolution . MLSsoccer.com (August 4, 2016). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Philadelphia Union Exercise 2018 Options On 11 Players . Philadelphia Union (November 1, 2017). Date of treatment May 5, 2018.
↑ Former MNT Striker Charlie Davies Announces Retirement . US Soccer (March 2, 2018). Date of treatment May 5, 2018.
↑ Frank Dell'Apa . No longer a state secret , The Boston Globe (June 3, 2006). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Steven Goff. Davies in Serious Accident . The Washington Post (October 13, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ US striker Davies injured in car accident . ESPN FC (October 13, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.
↑ Sam Stejskal. Charlie Davies announces he was diagnosed with cancer, now in remission . MLSsoccer.com (July 31, 2016). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[club-2] The number of games and goals for a professional club is considered only for various leagues of national championships.

[national-3] Number of games and goals for the national team in official matches.

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[4] Frank Dell'Apa. Davies and Altidore highlight the new breed of US striker . ESPN FC (July 20, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[5] Davies leaves Ajax without offer . Yanks Abroad (December 13, 2006). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[6] Allen Ramsey . Davies: Sochaux Want Me To Develop Into A Big Time Player (English) , Goal.com (July 10, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[7] Jeremiah Oshan. USMNT's Charlie Davies Makes Sochaux's Gameday Roster For First Time Since Injury . SB Nation (Dec 18, 2010). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[8] Travis Clark. Davies ready for new phase in pro career . DC United (February 16, 2011). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[9] Andrew Reeves. The bigger story behind Charlie Davies' dives . Deseret News (June 24, 2011). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[10] Greg Seltzer. American Exports: Davies on his way out of Sochaux . MLSsoccer.com (July 4, 2012). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[11] Alex Labidou. The forward, who hasn't featured for the US since 2009, returns to Scandinavia hoping to reignite his career . Goal.com (Jul 6, 2012). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[12] Ives Galarcep. Revolution acquire Charlie Davies . Soccer By Ives (August 8, 2013). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[13] Revolution acquires Charlie Davies on permanent basis . New England Revolution (January 9, 2014). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[14] Colin Stephenson. Busy Philadelphia Union acquire Charlie Davies from New England Revolution . MLSsoccer.com (August 4, 2016). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[15] Philadelphia Union Exercise 2018 Options On 11 Players . Philadelphia Union (November 1, 2017). Date of treatment May 5, 2018.

[16] Former MNT Striker Charlie Davies Announces Retirement . US Soccer (March 2, 2018). Date of treatment May 5, 2018.

[17] Frank Dell'Apa . No longer a state secret , The Boston Globe (June 3, 2006). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[18] Steven Goff. Davies in Serious Accident . The Washington Post (October 13, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[19] US striker Davies injured in car accident . ESPN FC (October 13, 2009). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.

[20] Sam Stejskal. Charlie Davies announces he was diagnosed with cancer, now in remission . MLSsoccer.com (July 31, 2016). Date of treatment November 12, 2016.