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Landon Donovan

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1982 (42 years old)

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Ontario, California, United States

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Winger

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5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

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Landon Timothy Donovan (born March 4, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player. Donovan is also the co-founder and vice-president of soccer operations for USL Championship side San Diego Loyal SC, and serves as a strategic advisor for English side Lincoln City. He was voted as the best U.S. soccer player of all time by a poll conducted by ESPN, along with Major League Soccer having ranked Donovan as the greatest American soccer player of all time.

A former forward, he holds numerous individual records in Major League Soccer (MLS) and for the United States national team and is regarded as the greatest U.S. men's soccer player of all time. Donovan signed for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1999. In 2005, after six years with Leverkusen, the majority of which were spent on loan with the San Jose Earthquakes of MLS, Donovan moved back to the United States permanently to sign with the Los Angeles Galaxy. He later returned to Germany for a loan with Bayern Munich, and twice went on short loans to English Premier League club Everton in 2010 and 2012. He retired as a player in 2014, but made a brief comeback with LA Galaxy late in the 2016 season and then in 2018 to play for Club León. He further played one season with the San Diego Sockers of the Major Arena Soccer League.

In MLS, Donovan won a record six MLS Cups and is the league's all-time assists leader with 136. The Major League Soccer MVP Award has been renamed the Landon Donovan MVP Award in his honor. For the United States men's national team, Donovan is the all-time leader in assists and tied with Clint Dempsey as the all-time leader in scoring, and is the second-most-capped player of his country. Donovan is the only American player to reach the 50 goals/50 assists mark. He is a four-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award (the only man to do so and the first man to win in consecutive years), as well as the only seven-time winner of the Honda Player of the Year award. Donovan starred in the U.S. team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 FIFA World Cup where he received the Best Young Player Award. His three goals in the 2010 World Cup made Donovan the highest-scoring male American player in World Cup history and one of the three male American players to score in more than one World Cup, along with Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey.

Career Honours

MLS Cup 2014 L.A. Galaxy	CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 USA	MLS Cup 2012 L.A. Galaxy	MLS Cup 2011 L.A. Galaxy
MLS Supporters Shield 2011 L.A. Galaxy	MLS Supporters Shield 2010 L.A. Galaxy	MLS MVP 2009 L.A. Galaxy	MLS Golden Boot 2008 L.A. Galaxy
CONCACAF Gold Cup 2007 USA	CONCACAF Gold Cup 2005 USA	MLS Cup 2005 L.A. Galaxy	Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2005 L.A. Galaxy
MLS Cup 2003 San Jose Earthquakes	FIFA Young Player 2002 USA	CONCACAF Gold Cup 2002 USA	MLS Cup 2001 San Jose Earthquakes