USA legend Landon Donovan talks about his impending retirement in an interview with SI.com’s Grant Wahl, and reveals that he would like to go to college — or at least,attend some classes — when he hangs up his boots for good at the end of the MLS season. After all, the 32-year-old, who turned pro at 17, never got to have that college experience.
“Thereare so many things,” Donovan says, when asked what he will do when he calls time on his career. “I want to travel, to see all these different places that I haven’t been able to see.I’ve been to a lot of places, but I haven’t seen a lot of things from places. I want to spend time with my family. I want to just sit and have weeks at a time where I do nothing, but I canwake up and do whatever I want.”
He continues: “I want to golf. I want to go to college and take classes. I want to hopefully do some commentating stuff, although somebody told me ifI’m going to do commentating I just need to be myself, but hopefully more entertaining. So I’m going to work on that. And I think coaching kids would be fun. I have all these thingsI’ve always sort of wanted to do, and now I have the opportunity to just try them and see what resonates.”
When Wahl asks whether Donovan, who will take his USA bow against Ecuadorin Hartford next Friday, thinks he would have helped the men’s national team progress further in the World Cup, he says: “I think there was a very tangible way I could have helped thatteam. I believe in my abilities.”