Landon Donovan on the Fickleness of Praise

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Landon Donovan on the Fickleness of Praise

Former pro soccer star Landon Donavan was the standard-bearer of American soccer for more than a decade. When Donovan was growing up in California, he had a T-shirt that read: "Soccer is Life. The rest is just details." Recently Donovan admitted, "[Soccer] was my identity." But in the last stage ...

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