Thanks to Nicole for pointing out my terrible blogging skills on the previous post. I mentioned that Beckham could earn his 101st cap for England but didn’t mention that Donovan may get his 100th cap for the US in the same game.
Nicole pointed out that Donovan would be the 4th youngest player ever to reach the 100 cap mark. I wondered who made it quicker and some quick research gave me 3 names I’d never heard before. Cha Bum-Kun got to 100 for South Korea at age 24 in 1997. Then in 1998 both Sami Al-Jaber and Mohammed Al-Deayea got to 100 caps for Saudi Arabia at age 25. Donovan turned 26 in March.
You probably know that Landon Donovan is the all time leading scorer for the US Men’s Nats with 35 goals. Who have his goals come against. Looks like Cuba is the favorite target of Landon many thanks to a 4 goal game in 2003. Here is the full list of how many goals Landon has scored against other countries:
6 – Cuba
4 – Mexico, Panama
3 – Ecuador, El Salvador
2 – Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Honduras
1 – Grenada, Jamaica, Korea Republic, Paraguay, Poland, Sweden, Venezuela, Wales
I want to see some countries like England, Argentina and Spain show up on that list soon!
A little know fact about Landon is that he played goalkeeper one summer. During his summer in goal he bought a pet bird and named him Tony – after US goalkeeper Tony Meola. Ok – I just made that one up, that was actually me that named a bird after Tony Meola.
Sorry Nicole – thanks for pointing out my own stupidity. Keep reading, there will be much more crap for you to catch!
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does anyone else think Donovan is a dirtbag? He is just an aweful human being, and it sucks we have to depend on him for the national team to succeed. USA has had good luck agains Mexico in recent years, but Mexico has been having better luck. They have a ton of young players developing in Europe, we have crap.