HOUSTON (Oct. 23, 2025) – Houston Dynamo FC forward Lawrence Ennali was named as a finalist for the 2025 MLS Comeback Player of the Year award, the league announced today. The MLS Year-End Awards honor the league’s top performers during the regular season, with the winners set to be announced throughout the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs.

The German winger’s full comeback story was featured in an Apple TV feature this season – ‘The Return – Lawrence Ennali’. Part One of the feature is available HERE. Part Two of the feature is available HERE.

Minutes after scoring his debut Major League Soccer goal for the Dynamo and helping the team to a 2-0 road victory over LAFC in August 2024, Ennali fell to the pitch grabbing his knee in pain. Soon after, what was feared was confirmed – the German winger had torn his ACL and would miss the remainder of the season and the beginning of the next.

Despite the early setback in a new league and country, Ennali did not let the daunting task of recovery overcome him. Lifted by the foundation and support of the team around him, the...