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Donovan Named Player of the Week in Galaxy Return
June. 27th, 2008
Los Angeles Galaxy forward Landon Donovan was voted Major League Soccer's Player of the Week for Week 13, it was announced on Monday.
Donovan recorded his league-leading fourth multi-goal game of the season, as he scored two goals in the Galaxy's 3-3 tie at home vs. the Columbus Crew. The Galaxy earned one point and retained sole possession of first place in the Western Conference.
Donovan, who was returning from a four-game absence from the Galaxy's lineup due to U.S. men's national team duty and injury, took little time before extending his league-leading goal scoring mark as he volleyed home the game's first goal in the fourth minute of play. After Edson Buddle's goal gave Los Angeles a 2-0 advantage in the 47th minute Columbus scored twice to knot the score.
In the 82nd minute Donovan converted a penalty kick for his second goal of the game before second-half substitute Steven Lenhart ended the Galaxy's hopes of a third consecutive win with an 88th minute strike to tie the game.
This is Donovan's third Player of the Week award this season, and the eighth of his career. He previously won back-to-back awards in weeks 4 and 5, when he scored five goals in a two-game span.
The MLS Player of the Week is selected each week of the regular season by a panel of journalists from The North American Soccer Reporters (NASR). Full disclosure of the votes can be found at www.soccerreporters.com.
Below are the 2008 MLS Player of the Week winners to date:
Week 1: Terry Cooke ( Colorado Rapids)
Week 2: David Beckham ( Los Angeles Galaxy)
Week 3: Guillermo Barros Schelotto ( Columbus Crew)
Week 4: Landon Donovan ( Los Angeles Galaxy)
Week 5: Landon Donovan ( Los Angeles Galaxy)
Week 6: David Beckham ( Los Angeles Galaxy)
Week 7: Robbie Rogers ( Columbus Crew)
Week 8: Edson Buddle (Los Angles Galaxy)
Week 9: Cuauhtemoc Blanco ( Chicago Fire)
Week 10: Robbie Findley ( Real Salt Lake )
Week 11: Brian Ching ( Houston Dynamo)
Week 12: Edson Buddle ( Los Angeles Galaxy)
Week 13: Landon Donovan ( Los Angeles Galaxy)
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The Galaxy opened their stadium, the Home Depot Center on June 7. But in order for their home to be ready, the team had to play a record 8 games to start the season and failed to win a game. In fact, the Galaxy finish the season without a win away from home the whole season. After the season's final game, the Galaxy had the final playoff spot in the West. In their aggregate series with the Earthquakes, they seemed well on to vindication for the MLS Cup loss 2 years earlier as they held 4 goals to 0 lead midway through the 2 nd game. A thing happened as the Earthquakes scored four unanswered goals to force a tiebreaker. In that session, the Earthquakes' Rodrigo Farina score to send the Quakes onto the next round.
In 2004 Looking to return to the top, the Galaxy would go through a mediocre 1 st half of the season before 3 straight wins over the summer. But from July 14 on, the Galaxy won only 2 more games, one in September and one in October. The Galaxy had a record of 11-9-10, good enough for 2nd in the West and the playoff, remaining the only club in MLS to have a playoff spot in every year of league in the playoffs, the Galaxy withstood an early challenge from the Rapids to win the aggregate goal series, 2-1, scoring 2 times in Game 2. In the conference final, the Galaxy's season would come to an end in Kansas with a 2-0 loss to Arnaud and the Wizards.
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