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He is one of only 13 players to have scored goals in Major League Soccer history. After a one-year stint with FC Ingolstadt 04 in Germany's 2.

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Bundesliga he returned to Los Angeles. 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. Buddle played only minutes in his first year, but scored three goals and two assists. The next year, at the age of twenty-one, he scored nine goals and five assists in only minutes while helping the Crew to a U.

Open Cup win. Plagued by injuries, he only started sixteen games the next year, but scored nine goals and four assists.

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The pattern repeated itself in , as Buddle missed significant time to injury, but still scored eleven goals and two assists in twenty starts. His totals were nine goals and two assists. He had a disappointing year in his tenure with the team only scoring six goals because he was battling a foot injury. He failed to score in 10 appearances for the Reds but assisted on the club's first ever goal, setting up Danny Dichio to score against Chicago Fire in front of the south stand at BMO Field.

He scored his first goal for the Galaxy against Real Salt Lake. In spite of this, Buddle became a prominent striker on the LA offense in , filling in for the injured Guatemalan striker Ruiz or when Donovan and Ruiz were absent while on international duty. After his second hat trick, teammate David Beckham commented, "Edson is an individual who is getting better at the game.

He's proved that tonight. ESPN 's Andrea Canales noted that Buddle had once suffered from a reputation of being "maddeningly lazy at times, giving up on passes that didn't fall in his striking-sweet zone," but that he had improved due to guidance from Beckham and an improved self-confidence as he scored more goals.