One legend down, another to go.

Well, not quite, noted Kei Kamara, who on Saturday night pushed past Landon Donovan for the No. 2 spot on Major League Soccer’s all-time regular-season goals list in Los Angeles FC’s 6-2 destruction of the visiting San Jose Earthquakes.

Kamara’s 146th career MLS strike, a header from Mateusz Bogusz’s 33rd-minute serve for a 3-0 advantage, leaves him behind only Chris Wondolowski, and that, he says, is where he’ll stay.

Wondolowski, who retired following the 2021 season following 17 seasons with the Earthquakes and Houston Dynamo, stands far ahead, with 171. That’s a road too far for the 39-year-old Kamara, who hasn’t tallied in double digits since 2019 and doesn’t figure to be around a whole lot longer, and he’s OK with that.

He prefers it that way.

The Sierra Leone-born striker and his former teammate with the Dynamo, one of a league-record 11 clubs for which he’s taken the field, says Wondolowski is his brother, that they represent something special, something we’re likely never to see in MLS again: star NCAA Division II-bred goalscorers.

“I don’t want to pass Wondo,” Kamara said as the applause died down at the start of his emotional postgame media session at BMO Stadium. “Being in California and growing up here [after receiving political asylum at the turn of the century], I remember going to Cal State Dominguez Hills, and I was one year behind Chris Wondolowski, who was at [conference rival] Chico State.

“[When we played] at Houston together, that was when we started having this brotherhood, this love to say we want to represent [the powerhouse California Collegiate Athletic Association] and represent Division II soccer, because it wasn’t easy for players to make it from Division II to the league. He just kept setting the bar higher and higher for me every year. And I said to him, ‘You keep going. I’m just going to be right behind you.’

“So to be one and two, it’s just a dream. I mean, people are going to say, ‘Yeah, go chase him,’ but I just want to be one and two. Just me and Wondo. It’s good there.”