Minnesota United Announces 2024 MLS Year-End Award Nominees

October 7, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Minnesota United FC News Release

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. (Oct. 7, 2024) – Minnesota United, along with Major League Soccer, today announced its nominees for the 2024 MLS Year-End Awards, highlighting the accomplishments of the league’s top players on and off the field. The awards also highlight the achievements of head coaches and referees during the 2024 MLS regular season.

Information on the 2024 MLS Year-End Awards nomination and voting process is available here.

The voting window for the annual postseason awards opened today at 11 a.m. CT and will conclude on Monday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. CT. Finalists for each award will be announced on Thursday, Oct. 24. Winners for the awards will be voted on by members of the media, club technical staff, and active MLS players, with each group accounting for 33.3% of the total vote. Club technical staff and players may not vote for their own team’s nominees.

Minnesota United nominees include:

Robin Lod – MLS Comeback Player of the Year

Just 10 matches into the 2023 MLS regular season, Robin Lod found himself on the season-ending injury list after tearing the meniscus in his right knee. He was forced to use the remainder of the season to rehabilitate and regain strength with the aim of returning to the starting lineup in 2024 and resuming his role as one of the club’s most important players.

When he made his way back to the pitch for the 2024 campaign, Robin marked his long-awaited return with 10 goal contributions (three goals, seven assists) in just eight games from February 24 to April 27, breaking the club’s all-time MLS goal-scoring record in the process. Lod recently became the all-time leader for most regular-season goal contributions in MNUFC’s MLS history, with 57 (28 goals and 29 assists), but the accolades didn’t stop there. Most recently, he recorded his 15th assist of the season on September 28 against the Colorado Rapids, tying former MNUFC forward Darwin Quintero’s single-season assist record set in 2018. Robin also tied Emanuel Reynoso in the club’s single-season goal contribution rankings with 21 (six goals, 15 assists) after assisting forward Kelvin Yeboah on September 28, and he’s still got one regular-season match left to play. He has rewritten the record books in nearly every attacking metric this season, proving that no injury was ever going to stand in the way of this Loons legend.

A veteran and leader on and off the field, Robin’s hard work was noticed and…