U.S. Soccer Team Tribute Donovan: Ends Career As ‘One Of The Most Influential Players In U.S. Soccer’, Despite Missing FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 Controversy (Video)
U.S. Soccer Team Tribute Donovan. Published reports say that Friday, October 10th, will be the last time, #LegenD Landon Donovan will play for the U.S. Men’s National Team. Fans of U.S. soccer’s Donovan can expect a myriad of interviews and videos to be uploaded to the Net.
#LegenD Landon Donovan has taken a place in U.S. soccer, perhaps more so than U.K. talent , ‘Bend-it-like-footballer’ David Beckham, who played in the U.S. League for LA Galaxy to give the sport a place amid prominent American games like baseball, basketball, and American football.
Landon will play as captain versus Ecuador in Connecticut’s East Hartford, and that will end his career as one of the most influential players in American soccer. The recognition comes despite being sidelined by coach Jergen Klinsman during the World Cup Brazil 2014. While Klansman said Donovan was not ready, the decision not to play Team U.S.A’s star player was not without controversy.
U.S. soccer was the first to catch up with Donovan for an interview. And the video below is about Donovan’s international career, and his thoughts on scoring goals for the U.S. team:
"I think one of the hardest things to do is to score a goal in a soccer game," Donovan told mlssoccer.com, referring to his famous stoppage time winner against Algeria. "Everything to come together that way, it's beautiful. I mean, it's really a work of art."
Donovan continued to say, "When you finally break through, when it finally happens in a moment like that when there's so much tension being built; all the games building up; all the qualifiers before that; all the work you've done back to when you were three years old, running in your back yard; all of that culminates in this moment, and then it's just bang, and it happens.”
The U.S. international adds, "You can't help but just let go. What a cool moment. I still have people come up to me to this day and say, 'You have no idea what that moment meant for me. You have no idea what I felt during that moment, what you guys were able to accomplish; how it inspired me; how it inspired my family or my son.'"
