League One side Lincoln City are to add an illustrious name to their efforts to gain promotion to the Championship next year.<\/p>\n
Former US international Landon Donovan is to join the Imps as a Strategic Advisor as part of a major restructuring involving minority owners of the baseball franchise San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n
As a player. Donovan won six MLS Cups, two with San Jose Earthquakes before winning a further four with a Los Angeles Galaxy side that included the likes of David Beckham and Robbie Keane.<\/p>\n
He made 157 appearances for his country scoring 57 goals, a record he now shares with Clint Dempsey. The creative midfielder had two brief loan spells with Everton in 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n
\n“We are not there to Americanise Lincoln City FC”<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
-Harvey Jabara<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nDonovan is currently the Vice-President of Soccer Operations\/ Manager for USL Championship side San Diego Loyal, a club situated in one of the USA’s most fervent soccer markets yet to have a MLS side.<\/p>\n
He moved from LA to front the attempt to bring MLS to San Diego and although that fell through, he liked the city enough to stay and become part of the new USL start up.<\/p>\n
Donovan once told Prost Amerika in an interview that his boyhood ambition was not to be a player but an owner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked being able to impact all the different part of a team, an organisation and a club,\u201d he told Prost Amerika in his San Diego office.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He has been ‘living that dream’ for a couple of years now in his adopted home city, but that is within a system with minimal opportunities for promotion, as MLS is a closed league that you have to buy your way into, like most US sports.<\/p>\n
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