Head Coach Juergen Klinsmann has a lot of balls to cut Landon Donovan from the World Cup roster of the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team. Donovan is the greatest soccer player in American history and the sport’s greatest domestic ambassador.
If the USA struggles to score in Brazil, people will want to know why “U.S. Soccer’s all-time leader in goals (57) and assists (57) as well as in World Cup games (12) and goals (five),” was left at home.
That doesn’t mean that Klinsmann made the wrong decision, but it does mean that he’s willing to take a very predictable beating if things don’t turn out as well as they should. He’s willing to be second-guessed, which I think is a good thing.
