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PRETORIA, South Africa — Landon Donovan tried to recall early Wednesday evening exactly how he’d saved his nation’s pride, less than a half hour before, in the split second of a historical soccer game that was just about to expire. But he couldn’t.
“I’ll have to look at it,” he said of the most-famous goal in U.S. soccer history, sitting at a dais with his chin resting in one hand, in a voice so soft it was made audible only by a microphone.
Instead, the greatest soccer player the United States has produced admitted that his mind was cluttered with all that he’d been through since the last time he played in this be-all soccer tournament called the World Cup.
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There was the public row he got himself into last summer with the world’s most-popular soccer star, David Beckham, when Beckham returned to Los Angeles to play with Donovan’s MLS team.
There was his very public split last July from his actress wife Bianca Kajlich.
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