Landon Donovan Plays Last Game for US Men's National Team

Donovan, 32, will step down from U.S. national team duty on Friday, making his 157th and final appearance for the Stars and Stripes at Rentschler Field in East Hartford (Watch live, 7 p.m. ET on ESPN) as his incredible career for the USA will be

Depending on who you talk to, Donovan is the player who reinvented what a US soccer career could look like, and in doing so conferred legitimacy on his domestic league, while continuing to prove himself on the international stage, or he's the player

Landon Donovan, the all-time leader in goals and assists for the U.S. national team, will play his final game in a U.S. jersey on Friday night in a friendly against Ecuador in East Hartford, Connecticut (7 p.m. ET, ESPN, Unimas). It will be a moment

U.S. soccer legend Landon Donovan will play his final international game on Friday night in Hartford. His final year with the national team was tainted by his controversial exclusion from the 2014 World Cup team by Jurgen 

Among lots of good post-game quotes from Landon Donovan, the retiring USA soccer player referenced his absence from the 2014 World Cup in a li'l Jurgen Klinsmann joke: Loading. Credit to Landon Donovan for delivering