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ASN Morning Read: Tim Howard Wins Hardware
While taking a year away from the national team, the 35-year-old goalkeeper won U.S. Soccer's Male Athlete of the Year for the second time; Landon Donovan speaks out about his mental health advocacy.
BY
Jesse Yomtov
Posted
November 21, 2014
7:50 AM
Tim Howard was named U.S. Soccer's Male Athlete of the Year and says it "shouldn't be a problem" for him to stay fit enough to play in the 2018 World Cup. "I have to be playing consistently and playing well. That's not changed since I first started on the national team, whether I was 31 or 39, I have to be playing and playing well."
MLSsoccer.com went longform on Landon Donovan's legacy in regards to mental health in the sporting world. “We don’t live in a world where it’s okay to admit that we’re not perfect,” Donovan said. “Everybody wants to take a picture where we’re smiling and we’re so happy. Sadness is not okay in our world. In other cultures, sadness is accepted as a part of life. There’s beauty in sadness. People are compassionate.
"In America we say, ‘Don’t be sad, cheer up!’ It’s ‘Don’t cry kid, here’s a toy!’ We actually learn it at a very young age, and I see that with parents all the time. You have a parent telling a kid, ‘Don’t cry!’ Well, crying is how kids express themselves. Sadness is a way kids express themselves. And we try to get rid of it as quickly as we can.”
Thierry Henry on the New England Revolution: “No disrespect to anyone who played there before, but since Jermaine Jones arrived, it changed the team. Period."
This is something:
On top of doing NBC Sports Premier League broadcasts, Geoff Cameron will be contributing to ProSoccerTalk. He'll do weekly updates on life in England, Q&As and other stuff.
The we're-definitely-not-corrupt report on World Cup bidding will be further reviewed.
