U.S. soccer star Landon Donovan was raised by a single mom and said he wouldn’t break though today because youth sports have gotten too expensive

“That's not a good system to create good players,” Donovan, a three-time FIFA World Cup participant, said. “How do you create good players by doing that? You can't.”

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