"Former Premier League Star Transforms Look with Wig After Struggles with Hair Transplants"

LANDON DONOVAN looks like a new man after settling on wearing a wig following failed hair transplant surgeries.

The 44-year-old has posted a video consoling Patrick Agyemang after the man was ruled out of the World Cup this summer with a serious Achilles injury and his hair looks better than ever.

Landon Donovan was balding very noticeably by the end of his careerCredit: AFP or licensors Even during his time with Everton it was apparent his hair was recedingCredit: AP:Associated Press Donovan’s hair while working as a pundit during Euro 2024

Donovan said: “Patrick, wishing you very a speedy recovery. You will be fine, you will come back from this. But I know it’s heartbreaking.”

The 157-time American international had two loan spells at while he was contracted to Galaxy and had a distinct balding hairline during his time on Merseyside.

The winger made 22 appearances for the Toffees in all competitions, scoring twice and assisting nine times.

Once his career finished in 2019, the legend underwent two hair transplant surgeries, but neither worked out.

Donovan now works as a podcaster, television analyst and strategic advisor to Lincoln City FC, but he showed real courage to work as a pundit on live TV in the midst of his hair procedures.

Fans couldn’t believe Donovan’s patchy hair during his work as an expert during , but the American kept looking for a solution.

Finally, he told the Daily Mail he settled on a hair system – which is essentially a type of wig – and suddenly everything changed for him.

He said: “I tried everything and I got to a point, coming up on a year now, where either I was gonna be just bald the rest of my life, or I can try this hair, what they call a hair system.

“I said ‘I’m just gonna try it.’ It was like a Friday night, I told my wife, ‘I don’t know why, I’m just gonna try this.’ And she’s like, ‘what?’ And literally like Monday morning I went in and did it.

‘I was like, if it’s terrible, I’ll just be on with it and whatever.

“I did it and I walked out of the place with my shoulders back. I felt confident, I felt young… I had grown to live with it, but I didn’t realise how much it was impacting me behind the scenes and how I was ashamed of it.”

Despite continuing to perform his analyst duties on air, Donovan admitted he was being haunted by his hairline and only once he got his new hair system did he realise just what damage it was doing to his confidence.

“For the first time in – since I can remember – I really felt confident, which is crazy to say.

“Someone who has everything, has the success I had, and the money, and the family, and all the things, to say that is bizarre. But it’s just the reality.”

By 2023, Donovan was fed up with his balding hair and was desperate to find a solutionCredit: Getty Now, Donovan has shaved he top of his head and has opted to wear a wig And the results are undeniably impressive Now he has found his confidence again thanks to what he calls a ‘hair system’Credit: X/LandonDonovan

“[I’d] look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘Wow, I’m not this balding not-good-looking man.’ I can see my features again, my eyes aren’t just going to my forehead every time.”

Donovan is considered as one of the best American players of all time and one of the biggest stars to ply their trade in the MLS after its inception in 1996.

He also enjoyed spells in Germany as he turned out for at the start of his career and on loan prior to his time at Everton.

Donovan called time on his career in 2019, having won six MLS Cups with the Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes.