Interview: Landon Donovan on His Career, Struggles and Memoir

Therapy spurred motion. Donovan reached out to his father, fulfilling the dearest want of his sister Tris, who’d maintained her personal relationship, nevertheless imperfect, together with her father all these years. Tim Donovan was now residing in Nashville, cancer-free. Father and son met just a few instances, and prompted by Landon, began speaking about the place their relationship had blown off beam. One day, they performed. Tim was now in a roller-hockey league (a lifetime in the past, he’d performed semi-pro ice hockey). Landon put on pads and blades and performed a full recreation with Tim, then acquired beers with the staff after. It’s a deeply shifting a part of the e-book, and once I talked about it to Donovan, he pointed proudly to a photograph of that day on the shelf behind his desk.