Ben Knight
writes and publishes Onward!
The Donovan effect
t’s insidious, it’s real – and as of noon Wednesday, Eastern daylight time, it’s entirely justified.
In the wake of the America-Algeria climax, my pal Rudi Schuller Facebooked in from South Africa his puzzlement that he’d found himself cheering for Landon Donovan … again.
I know how he feels – and the disorientation is a tricky adjustment.
With his last-gasp winning goal that won Group C and kept Uncle Sam’s World Cup stumble dance alive, Citizen Landon Captain America Donovan has cemented his place as the uncontested outward face of Yank soccer. It’s one of the biggest goals in the nation’s footy history, and should prove to be a huge boon to popularizing the world’s most popular game in the world’s most traditionally reluctant soccer nation.
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