[USA MEN] Just because he scored one goal — into an empty net on a breakaway, it should be added — doesn’t mean has LandonDonovan played himself back into the U.S. national team picture. On U.S. Soccer’s Media Day with a gathering of reporters, Coach Jurgen Klinsmann made it clear he’ll think long and hard before he recalls Donovan, the team’s all-time leading scorer. The U.S. coach wasnot focused on just Donovan’s fourth-month sabbatical that kept him out of the start of the Hexagonal but the 21 months of Klinsmann’s reign when Donovan, for the most part, “hasn’t been a partof that development of this team.”

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