BEASLEY, DONOVAN & KELLER: 2005 HONDA PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALISTS

Winner To Be Announced During the 15th Anniversary of the Honda Player of the Year Award Festivities on November 30 in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (October 18, 2005) – DaMarcus Beasley, Landon Donovan and Kasey Keller have been selected by 206 sports journalists from across the nation as the three finalists for the 2005 Honda Player of the Year Award, which for the last 15 years has been widely recognized as the most prestigious award a U.S. National Team player can receive.

The winner will be announced during the special award luncheon celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Honda Player of the Year Award, which will take place on Wednesday, November 30 at The Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The award luncheon is open to all media and will begin at 11:30am. The winner of the Honda Player of the Year Award will receive a new Honda Ridgeline automobile.

DaMarcus Beasley, a finalist for the second consecutive year, has established himself as one of the best players on the U.S. National Team. The 23 year-old scored four goals for the National Team in 2005, including two against Jamaica in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup and a crucial goal against Mexico in World Cup qualifying that helped clinch a place for the U.S. in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. With his club, PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands, this year Beasley won the league Eredivisie championship, the Dutch Cup, and became the first American to play in a semifinal match of the UEFA Champions League. During the 2004-2005 season, Beasley scored 6 goals in 29 matches for PSV.

Landon Donovan, the only three-time winner of the Honda Player of the Year Award, this year joins Reyna, Keller and Marcelo Balboa as the only players selected as finalists at least four times. In 2005, Donovan led the U.S. National Team in goals scored, including two in a World Cup qualifying match against Costa Rica in June, and two in a CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Cuba in July. Also this year Donovan, at age 23, moved into third place on the all-time U.S. National Team goal scorers list. Donovan joined the Los Angeles Galaxy earlier this year after spending the winter with Bayer Leverkusen in Germany.

Kasey Keller, a finalist for the first time since he won the Honda Player of the Year Award in 1999, this year joins Claudio Reyna as the only two five-time finalists in the history of the award. In 2005 Keller shut out five consecutive opponents in World Cup qualifying, including each of the other teams participating in the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. He now has a total of 44 shutouts in his career, including 19 in World Cup qualifying matches. This year he also earned his 50th career victory in a total of 88 appearances with the U.S. National Team. Keller currently plays for Borussia Moenchengladbach in Germany, and previously played for Tottenham, Southampton, Leicester City and Millwall in England as well as Rayo Vallecano in Spain.

The previous winners of the Honda Player of the Year Award are: Landon Donovan (2004, 2003 and 2002), Earnie Stewart (2001), Claudio Reyna (2000), Kasey Keller (1999), Cobi Jones (1998), Eddie Pope (1997), Eric Wynalda (1996, 1992), Alexi Lalas (1995), Marcelo Balboa (1994), Thomas Dooley (1993) and Hugo Perez (1991). In 2000, Eric Wynalda was named the Honda Player of the Decade.

For more than a decade, Honda has supported soccer programs and played a part in the growth of this exciting sport in America. Honda's current support includes 15 years as a sponsor of the Honda Player of the Year Award and 8 years as a sponsor of the Honda Symposium, as well as 10 years as the official Automotive Sponsor and Official Vehicle of Major League Soccer.

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