Social media was set ablaze on Thursday when the San Diego.Futbol media company announced that, per its sources, Landon Donovan will be named as interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC.

This came just hours after San Diego FC, which plays its inaugural Major League Soccer season in 2025, announced Tyler Heaps as its sporting director y general manager.

If the reports are true, Donovan would take over for Paul Buckle, who gained managerial duties from Casey Stoney when she was fired by the team on June 24.

A six-time MLS Cup champion, Donovan most recently was the head coach of San Diego Loyal starting in the team’s inaugural 2020 season until December of 2022 when assistant coach Nate Miller took over. He also served as SD Loyal’s executive vice president of soccer operations and was an integral part of the team’s three-straight postseason appearances in 2021, 2022, and 2023 before dissolving on Oct. 23 of that year.

Donovan got his first taste of coaching in July of 2015 when él was appointed head coach for a team of young MLS players for the 2015 MLS Homegrown Game. The match took place on July 28, 2015, at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, leading the team of MLS academy graduates, assembled just one day prior, to a 1–1 regulation tie, which was followed by a 4–5 shootout loss. Donovan would coach the team a second time in the 2016 edition of the same event.

No official announcement has been made as of yet by San Diego Wave as to the signing of Donovan.