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Get two American soccer fans together, throw out the words, “Landon Donovan” and you’re sure to ignite a debate on par with Democrats and Republicans arguing the merits of universal health care.
For nearly the entire decade of the 2000s, for better or worse, Donovan was the face of U.S. soccer.
However he was a man with two decidedly different faces. One sector of American fans — especially those with a wandering eye to the European continent — perceive Donovan as a spoiled little kid that couldn’t cut it on three different occasions in the German Bundesliga, eventually retreating back to the warm bosom of MLS. To another set — including those at the U.S. Soccer Federation headquarters — Donovan is the true poster boy for U.S. soccer and its brightest ever star, manifested by his 42 international goals.
Those two divergent view of the 27-year-old Ontario, Calif., native will come into bright focus over the next 10 or so weeks when Donovan begins a short loan spell at storied English club Everton in January as he tries to stay fit ahead of the 2010 MLS season, as well as the World Cup in June.
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