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Donovan's World Cup goal against Algeria: The oral history of the most famous moment in USMNT history

Landon Donovan, USMNT midfielder 2000-2014: I'm thinking in my head like, "I just gotta cheat up the field as much as I can."

It's almost like [Tim Howard] had been surveying the field before he got the ball. In case he did get the ball, get his hands on the ball, he was ready. And so when he grabbed it, I knew there was a lot of space in front of me. So I took off in that moment, and he threw it perfectly.

At that moment, my thought was just make the right decision, because I've been in situations like that thousands of times in practice or in games.