LA Galaxy coach Bruce Arena admits he wasn't "shocked" by Landon Donovan's World Cup omission.
Former USA coach Arena, who had Donovan on his rosters at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, said he wasn't shocked by the omission, but it did catch him by surprise.
"When coaches make decisions, you've got to support those decisions unless they're proved otherwise," Arena said. "The last thing I'm going to be is a Monday-morning quarterback like everyone else in the world is. These are hard decisions. I'm sure Jurgen has his reasons for it, and you've got to respect that. It's not easy.
"If it was my decision, he'd be on the team, but it's not my decision, so I leave it at that. Only time tells if these things make sense or they don't make sense."
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