I Love Soccer Featuring Landon Donovan

Hi. My name is Logan. In my family, everyone plays soccer. Today we have a game at the park. This is the most exciting day of the week! "If you already play, you know how great it feels. If you don't, it's easy! Just take the ball and kick it around." Landon Donovan, MLS MVP.

LeBron James is the shy son of a teenage mother, both wandering, constantly searching for a home and fighting to survive. When LeBron s immense talent is finally discovered, he seizes the opportunity and changes his life forever. This is the heartfelt story of a young boy s incredible rise to glory to become the world s best basketball player through the power of family, friendship and love.

A simple biography of the American soccer player, Landon Donovan.

Landon Donovan is one of America s soccer superstars. He has always been good at soccer. When he was five years old, he scored seven goals in his first soccer game, playing against six and seven-year-olds. When he was sixteen, he was named Most Valuable Player in the Under-17 World Championships in New Zealand. He was part of the U.S. team that advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup, and he led the San Jose Earthquakes to the Major League Soccer Championship in 2003. In 2005, he moved to the Los Angeles Galaxy, . With his goals in the 2010 World Cup, he became the highest scoring American in World Cup History.

In recent years, the United States has become one of the top-ten soccer nations in the world. A big reason for their success is the play of high-scoring striker Landon Donovan. Meet this superstar inside!

What does the world's favorite sport mean in the United States? Despite the common belief that it is only a women's sport, an immigrants' sport, a small kids' sport--or that hating soccer is very American, the new essays in this volume attest that soccer indeed is a very American and very popular sport, around since the 1940s. The all-new essays address issues concerning the business of the game, the meaning of men's and women's professional, national, high school and youth soccer, the community formed by the game, the media, the referees, the hooliganism and the treatment of the sport in academe.