Prediction

Now that Landon Donovan has retired, what does the former U.S. soccer star have planned for the future?

Kaka won it’s equivalent back in 2007, but that award might be remembered as the end of an era rather than a moment of glory, because he may be the last player in Serie A to ever win the Ballon d’Or.

We can now sit back and take a breath after the 2014 World Cup gave us over a month of breathtaking goals, rabid Uruguayans, draws that felt like losses, losses that felt like wins, and record-breaking television ratings in the United States. While certain of those memories will stay with us for weeks and even years to come, the question now has to be asked: where does soccer go from here in the United States? Is this truly the time when soccer will “break through” and join its place in the upper-echelon of major sports in the United States?