Edson Buddle
Edson Buddle playing for the LA Galaxy in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Edson Michael Buddle | ||
| Date of birth | May 21, 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | New Rochelle, New York, United States | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–1995 | FC Westchester | ||
| 1999 | State Fair Roadrunners | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000 | Long Island Rough Riders | 26 | (11) |
| 2001–2005 | Columbus Crew | 106 | (42) |
| 2006 | New York Red Bulls | 28 | (6) |
| 2007 | Toronto FC | 10 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | LA Galaxy | 87 | (42) |
| 2011–2012 | Ingolstadt 04 | 31 | (9) |
| 2012 | LA Galaxy | 19 | (3) |
| 2013–2014 | Colorado Rapids | 42 | (7) |
| 2015 | LA Galaxy | 10 | (0) |
| 2015 | → LA Galaxy II (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 360 | (120) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001 | United States U20 | 6 | (2) |
| 2002–2003 | United States U23 | 4 | (3) |
| 2003–2012 | United States | 11 | (3) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 24, 2015. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 24, 2015.
Edson Michael Buddle (born May 21, 1981) is an American soccer player who last played for LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
Buddle began his career in North America in 2000 with the Long Island Rough Riders, who played in the A-League at that time. He then spent 2001–2010 in Major League Soccer, playing for the Columbus Crew, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC, and Los Angeles Galaxy. After a one-year stint with FC Ingolstadt 04 in Germany's 2. Bundesliga he returned to Los Angeles. Buddle has also played for the United States national team, including two appearances at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, Buddle played one year of college soccer at State Fair Community College, leading them to the 1999 NJCAA Division I National Championship. Buddle began his professional career in 2000, when he signed with Long Island Rough Riders of the A-League. Buddle helped the team win the Northeast Division, scoring eleven goals and four assists, and was a finalist for the A-League Rookie of the Year Award.
His performance in the A-League attracted the interest of MLS, and Edson was selected twenty-seventh overall in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft by Columbus Crew. Buddle played very little in his rookie year, only 556 minutes, but managed to show his talent in his brief playing time, scoring three goals and two assists. The next year, at the age of twenty-one, Buddle established himself as one of the league's best young strikers, scoring nine goals and five assists in only 1304 minutes while helping the Crew to a U.S. Open Cup win. Plagued by injury troubles, Buddle only started sixteen games for the Crew the next year, but again was a prolific scorer when healthy, registering nine goals and four assists. The same pattern repeated itself in 2004, as Buddle missed significant time to injury, but still scored eleven goals and two assists in twenty starts. His 2005 totals were nine goals and two assists, and he missed at least one month of action after violating the MLS Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Policy when he was pulled over by Columbus police and refused to take a breathalyzer test.
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