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Landon Donovan is an American soccer player who is widely recognized as one of the greatest players in U.S. soccer history. He matters because of his significant contributions to American soccer both domestically and internationally, including his performances for the U.S. national team and various professional clubs.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Timothy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ontario
- Spouse
- Bianca Kajlich
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Participant in
- 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Club León
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Major League Soccer
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 70
- Official website
- www.landondonovan.com
- Image
- WikiLando (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 173
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- Commons category
- Landon Donovan
- date of birth
- 1982-03-04
- coach of sports team
- San Diego Loyal SC
- name in native language
- Landon Donovan
- birth name
- Landon Timothy Donovan
- social media followers
- 1283499
- nickname
- Captain America
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Landon Timothy Donovan (born March 4, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player and coach who was most recently the interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Widely regarded as one of the greatest American players of all time, Donovan was the all-time top assist provider in international football (58) until 2023 and is tied with Clint Dempsey for the most international goals scored by a male U.S. player (57). Donovan won a record six MLS Cups and is the league's all-time assists leader with 136. The Major League Soccer MVP Award has been renamed the Landon Donovan MVP Award in his honor.
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