Hey Valley of the Sun,
↵Did you know that one of the heroes of the 2010 U.S. World Cup soccer team was in Tempe today?
↵Landon Donovan and his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates beat the expansion Vancouver Whitecaps, 2-0, in Major League Soccer preseason action Monday at ASU’s soccer stadium.
↵The game was labeled “closed door,” but they let me in so how closed could it have been?
↵Donovan played the entire 90 minutes. Afterward, he and another Galaxy star, Juan Pablo Angel, left quickly to catch a flight back to L.A. They were not going to play in Tuesday’s scheduled rematch against Vancouver, so they were excused to go home a day before the rest of the team.
↵David Beckham, American soccer’s favorite Englishman, was not present. He’s finishing training with English club Tottenham Hotspur and will be with the Galaxy later in the week.