Well, a Bundesliga buddy of Klinsmann sticking up for him (which he is entitled to), and someone perhaps a bit salty since he just coached Fulham right out of the Premier League. But certainly the international community isn't thinking of Landon Donovan's name when they discuss the great players of this generation. That's entirely fair. As is the point that he shouldn't be so candid in his analysis so soon after being cut (when asked to analyze - as opposed to posting a diatribe to a Facebook page which is sort of pathetic - he should just shack up with Raul and be done with it).
However, you wonder what German people would think of Donovan had Oliver Kahn not stopped him in 2002 on a goal that FIFA would still be using in World Cup promos with Maradona ones. Megs a guy, cuts past another, and threads a rocket through the needle heading right for the corner, but somehow Kahn saves it (hate that guy - but Frings even more). We've played Germany 3 times in the WC now - a notoriously tough team to break down - and nobody has come close to unlocking their defense like this (or Belgium for that matter, until the Bradley-Green connection down 2-0). He had two other chances he could have done better with in those highlights - didn't get a good hit on one in the second half which took some individual brilliance to bring it down into space to shoot.
It actually would be nice if the USA had developed some younger guys with Donovan's skillset in the last 12 years so that we didn't need him in this cycle. But we haven't, and instead we have to play people out of position all over the field and look impotent serving the ball on set pieces. My point in posting that video isn't to say that Donovan could do that any more because he can't (nor could he probably outrun Brazil for 100 yards to score like he did in 2009 Confed Cup, or put a desperate team on his back like he did against Slovenia). But rather just to point out that a salty German coach would look at Donovan a lot differently to this day had Germany been struck by that wundergoal. And if we're accepting a Facebook post that Donovan is just some mediocre hack who isn't good enough for the international game, then maybe we need to get to work producing a #10 of better class. Because we haven't come frickin' close, and I don't see a person on the horizon at the moment who can do it (but that can change quickly).