USA national team boss Juergen Klinsmann has heaped praise on Landon Donovan as his international career gets set to come to a close.
The 32-year old LA Galaxy star, who will retire from professional soccer at the end of the 2014 MLS season, plays his last match for the US in Friday's friendly with Ecuador in Connecticut.
Donovan's career, when it ends on Friday night, will have seen amass 157 international caps and at least 57 goals and 58 assists which are both national team records.
When assessing the brilliant contribution Donovan has made to the sport in his country, Klinsmann was full of superlatives for a man he still feels could have done a little more.
"As a coach, you always want to see a player drive for his 100 percent," Klinsmann said.
"I'm looking at Landon always that I wish, in a certain way, he could have done a bit more here and a bit more there. But he had a tremendous career and he deserves that farewell tomorrow night and all the compliments on your end as well."
The German added: "Speaking about Landon, you talk about an absolutely amazing career that he represents.
"Coming into this game - his farewell moment, this decision to leave the game after this season - you want to look at these 13 or 15 years that he played on a very high level, breaking records throughout the system here and coming through the youth system of US Soccer, the residence program.
"He represents so many elements of soccer in the United States. He has been the poster boy of the game, for MLS certainly, for a long stretch of time. He raised the awareness of the game to new dimensions before a David Beckham came into the league or other big names came into the league. He deserves all the admiration and recognition for this amazing career."
