Wednesday, September 20, 2006

ESPN Soccernet story: Life's a Beach for Donovan

For those who believed the failure of the World Cup would provoke an attitude adjustment from Landon Donovan, once the great American hope, but now our greatest frustration, you were wrong. Check out this maddening story from ESPN Soccernet.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

He is a total joke. US Soccer should move beyond him.

Anonymous said...

Clearly he's more Mathis than Maradona.

Anonymous said...

Can anyone say AMERICAN GAZZA?????!!!!!

I hate your stinking national side and minor league but for your own good, drop this loser forever from your squad. What a piece of rubbish he is. Other Yanks such as Bobby Convey at Reading and Jay DeMerit at Watford have shown grit and quality over here in the EPL. This golden boy of yours is nothing but a typical whiny yank... the reason some us hate you guys so much. He will not eat the German food because he wants Hamburgers. The man is a sad joke.

Anonymous said...

Said the typical condescendingly arrogant Brit.

Hernandez said...

how does one know that mls or mexico is worse then europe? mls defeat chelsea last month and donovan is second most talented american behind o'brien. he will be in the team anywhere in europe if he wanted.

Hernandez said...

how does one know that mls or mexico is worse then europe? mls defeat chelsea last month and donovan is second most talented american behind o'brien. he will be in the team anywhere in europe if he wanted.

Anonymous said...

By watching!

Anonymous said...

Donovan is by any measure one of the top players in the world. Much of our failure recently has been due to the presence of two seperate and distinct national teams. One dominated by MLS based players and another dominated by Europeans. Since the USSF is so pro-Euro these days guys like Donovan who have worked to build the game here at home in the US have been vilified. It is sad that many of you on this site take pot shots at what by any reasonable measure is one of the best players ever produced by the USA and currently our top player.

Anonymous said...

What is unfortunate is that Donovan has peaked at an age where his peers are improving. He is a fine player (hardly world-class) who has admitted that he's happy where he is and has no desire to push himself to the next level.

He is a good player now but that's it - he will never get any better!

Harvey said...

Donovan needs a major attitude adjustment. No doubt about that.

Harvey said...

It is totally outragous the statements Bruce Arena is making about Gulati and USSF. Kartik, can you post something on this. Arena is a total jack ass. He's trying to bring down US Soccer IMO.

Kartik said...

England had lots of talented, skilled players that could replace Gazza. The USA has none that could replace Donovan. So you will be forced to put up with his behavior.