Landon Donovan is sick of Mexicans. If you saw the USA-Mexico World Cup Qualifier, you’d know why. The best American soccer player of all time attempted to take a corner kick while being pelted with ‘basura y bebidas’ (trash and drinks). One journalist noted that human waste was included in the shower of refuse. Classy. In any case, it was recently revealed that Lando has H1N1 better known as swine flu. He did not contract the sickness in Mexico and likely got it from Galaxy staffers.
Via FanHouse:
File this under the worst week ever for U.S. soccer’s all-time leading goal scorer Landon Donovan. As if losing to Mexico 2-1 on Wednesday wasn’t bad enough, Thursday night Donovan told Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl that he tested positive for the H1N1 flu virus.
Donovan told Wahl that he felt ill before the U.S. team arrived in Mexico City for its CONCACAF World Cup qualifier on Wednesday and most likely contracted the virus in the United States. Still, he soldiered through the sickness and played all 90 minutes in the altitude and heat of Azteca Stadium, sending the through ball that set up Charlie Davies ninth minute goal which gave the U.S. a brief 1-0 lead.
Central and South American soccer have already been affected by the swine flu outbreak, with the Mexican league shutting its doors briefly to help quell the spread of the virus earlier this year. There was also controversy when South American club teams balked at traveling to Mexico during the height of the panic for international club tournaments.
Still, Donovan’s contraction of the virus is the first time it’s seemed to cross the border into American soccer circles, and it makes him one of the highest profile players in any sport to be diagnosed with the virus. The Los Angeles Times reports that he likely contracted it from some Los Angeles Galaxy staffers.
That said, it doesn’t appear to be life threatening for Donovan, who says he might even play this weekend for the Los Angeles Galaxy when they take on the Seattle Sounders.
Tags: h1n1, landon donovan, mexico, soccer, swine flu, usa, usmnt, world cup
Hm, so Mexican's are stupid, culture-less, and a societal burden in Mexico as well… I thought it was just here. They're great people, really, they gave us salsa.
They also gave us Mark "El Milagro" Sanchez
You mean, USC sexual assault, Leinart2 future choke, way too big of an ego for a micro penis Mexican, Mark Sanchez? I'll give you the upper hand though, Mark Sanchez is the best thing Mexico has given us since Cheech.
hahah lol stupid boys, you think that youre better than all the world, but you re a mix of countries without roots, culture less, you dont have nothing, well you have your extremely inteligent president Bush well, you re not better than nobody and guess what we won against u again 5-0 and now 2-1 haha