The Galaxy revealed that the all-time leading goalscorer in MLS history is coming back after an 18 month retirement. But, uh, why?
If you had asked me to sit down and write one hundred unlikely soccer news headlines: ‘Messi to NYCFC’; ‘MLS openly exploring promotion/relegation’; ‘Paul Pogba quits soccer to pursue dream career as pastry chef’; and so on, I’d never have come up with Landon Donovan, MLS’ all-time leading goalscorer (144), all-time leading assist-maker (136), returning to the LA Galaxy.
But, whelp, here we are.
What would compel a man who has everything: a wife and new child, a Southern California beach house, the freakin’ MLS MVP trophy named after him, and nothing left to prove, to come back to soccer?