We still don’t have a complete picture of who will be on the final 23-man roster for South Africa. But we know a whole lot more about who won't be.

Start with Charlie Davies, who was always facing tremendously long odds in his recovery bid. I wrote long ago that Davies was simply asking too much of his body. It's one thing to recover from the automobile accident related injuries to a place where he could perform daily, mundane human chores. But getting to a place where he was fit enough and strong enough to play soccer at the highest level, in such a demanding tournament, was simply never going to happen.