Sochaux striker Charlie Davies is confident of making the US's World Cup squad.

Jim Hashimoto, the former U.S. national team trainer, is working with Davies after his car accident and is amazed by his progress.

"Charlie is pretty much light years ahead of where anybody would tell you he should be," Hashimoto told ESPN. "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."

Davies added: "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. 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."