{"id":40315,"date":"2014-08-07T20:17:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T03:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=40315"},"modified":"2014-08-07T20:17:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T03:17:58","slug":"galaxys-donovan-to-retire-after-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=40315","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy&#8217;s Donovan to Retire After Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40316\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=40316\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40316\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DONOVAN.png\" alt=\"Landon Donovan to retire after the 2014 season \" width=\"299\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Landon Donovan to retire after the 2014 season<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Landon Donovan\u00a0of the LA Galaxy has announced that he\u00a0will\u00a0retire after the current MLS season. Donovan\u00a0is the top scorer\u00a0in both national team and MLS history\u00a0and also\u00a0earned All-Star Game\u00a0MVP honors on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Donovan, only 32, is widely renowned as the best U.S. produced soccer\u00a0player of all-time. In 14 MLS\u00a0seasons, he scored 138 regular season goals, and he also racked up 57 goals in 156 appearances for the U.S National team.\u00a0He was disappointed in not being named to this year&#8217;s team for the World Cup but ended up doing commentary on ESPN during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan&#8217;s next appearance will be Friday night for the Galaxy against San Jose at StubHub Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landon Donovan\u00a0of the LA Galaxy has announced that he\u00a0will\u00a0retire after the current MLS season. Donovan\u00a0is the top scorer\u00a0in both national team and MLS history\u00a0and also\u00a0earned All-Star Game\u00a0MVP honors on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[10063,10062,272,10120,129,165],"class_list":["post-40315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soccer","tag-la-galaxy","tag-landon-donovan","tag-mls","tag-stubhub-center","tag-us-national-team","tag-world-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40317,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions\/40317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}