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Wondo wins boot, honors

October 25, 2010 | 9:25 pm No comments

By Shaun Schafer

With a four-goal outburst to close the regular season, San Jose Earthquakes forward Chris Wondolowski came out of nowhere to claim the Budweiser Golden Boot and also earned his third MLS Player of the Week as voted on by the North American Soccer Reporters.

The storybook season of the former MLS Reserve League player took a magical twist in Wednesday’s 3-0 victory over Chivas USA, after he netted a hat trick off the bench to put him in a tie atop the MLS goal-scoring charts with LA Galaxy forward Edson Buddle with 17.

Wondolowski then scored one last goal on Saturday night in Kansas City to jump ahead of Buddle, who failed to find the back of the net on Sunday in the Galaxy’s regular-season finale.

His 18 goals, an Earthquakes club record, have vaulted him into the MVP race are more than half of the Earthquakes’ 34-goal total. Nine of Wondolowski’s goals have been game-winners. He also set an MLS record by scoring his team’s final 10 goals.

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