He’ll be wearing white. He’ll be elusive, he hopes. And he’ll seem familiar, yet somehow altered by a journey from one kind of existence to the next. You’ll recognize him, even if he’s not exactly what you remember, and if confirmation is required simply check the LA Galaxy team sheet. Go past No. 10 all the way down to 26, a relatively anonymous number (beyond Stamford Bridge) that means far more to the man Landon Donovan is today than the one he was.
He’s back, as many figured he might be eventually—a ghost returned from the limbo of early retirement and signed by injury-hit LA for the rest of the 2016 season.