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Landon Donovan is MLS's all-time leading scorer with 136 goals and all-time assists leader with 136 assists in league play. He won a record six MLS Cups across his career with San Jose Earthquakes and LA Galaxy. The MLS MVP award has been renamed the Landon Donovan MVP Award in his honor.
Landon Donovan scored five World Cup goals across the 2002 and 2010 tournaments, the most by any player representing a CONCACAF nation. His three goals at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa made him the highest-scoring male American in World Cup history.
Manager Jurgen Klinsmann omitted Donovan from the final 2014 U.S. World Cup squad on the 22nd of May 2014, stating that other players were ahead of him at that moment. Klinsmann later called it one of the toughest decisions of his coaching career. The exclusion was widely criticized and became the subject of a PlayStation commercial.
Landon Donovan won the Golden Ball as the tournament's best player at the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship. He scored 35 goals in 41 games for the U.S. under-17 team across two years, and the U.S. finished fourth in that tournament.
Landon Donovan signed with Bayer Leverkusen in 1999 and was on contract with the German club until 2005, though he spent most of those years on loan in MLS. He later went on loan to Bayern Munich in late 2008 and twice to Everton in January 2010 and January 2012, where he was named Player of the Month on both occasions and declared himself an "Evertonian for life."
Donovan co-founded the San Diego Loyal USL Championship club with Warren Smith in June 2019 and served as its inaugural head coach and executive vice president of soccer operations. He stepped away from coaching on the 2nd of December 2022, moving into a full-time executive role before the club dissolved on the 23rd of October 2023.