Expansion Draft

Sounders FC Set For Nov. 26 Expansion Draft

Seattle Sounders FC officials have begun the final phase of their selection process for the 2008 Major League Soccer Expansion Draft.
RENTON, WASH. – Seattle Sounders FC officials have begun the final phase of their selection process for the 2008 Major League Soccer Expansion Draft. General manager Adrian Hanauer and technical director Chris Henderson will take 10 players in the draft this Wednesday, Nov. 26, at 1 p.m. ET.




Seattle, set to become the 15th MLS team in the 2009 season, will claim one player from 10 existing teams; four teams will not lose any player. The league has distributed the list of available players.




Sounders FC has already signed four players for its inaugural season: Kasey Keller, goalkeeper; Sebastien Le Toux, forward; Freddie Ljungberg, midfielder; and Sanna Nyassi, midfielder.




Hanauer and Henderson will make their final determinations from the Emeryville, Ca., offices of Match Analysis, a provider of video and statistical analysis tools, archiving services, and value-added content for professional soccer. Match Analysis records and verifies over 2400 distinct events per match. Using proprietary technology, every touch by every player is catalogued precisely, synchronized against video feeds, and stored in an expansive video database of international football.




Existing teams were allowed to protect 11 players between their Senior and Developmental rosters. Players whose contracts expire at the end of 2008 were still considered part of the team’s Senior Roster and among the 11 possible players to protect.




Any Generation adidas players who have not graduated at the end of the 2008 season were automatically protected by the teams and not available for the draft. If Seattle selects a Developmental player, he must be added to the Sounders FC Senior Roster as of the roster compliance date.




In addition, each team could not make more than one Senior International player available. For purposes of this expansion process, for U.S.-based teams, any non-domestic U.S. player counts as an International and for Toronto FC, any non-domestic U.S. player or non-domestic Canadian player counts as an International. Designated Players did not have to be protected unless the player had a no trade clause in which case he must be protected.




Seattle will have the right to renegotiate a drafted player's salary without having to place such player on waivers or giving his previous team a right of first refusal.




On the first day of the Discovery/Allocation Period, Seattle will have priority over players who played professionally in the USL First or Second Division in 2008, subject to another MLS team's right of first refusal.


Beginning in 2009, MLS rules limit rosters to 24 players with each club permitted up to 20 Senior players. The balance is to be comprised of Developmental players.




Listed below are the unprotected players submitted to the league by the 14 MLS teams.




Chivas USA


Chiles, Kraig


Curtin, Jim


Ebert, Eric


Ferreira, Dejair


Flores, Jorge


Hamilton, Anthony


Kennedy, Dan


Mayen, Gerson


Nurse, Roberto


Paladini, Daniel


Parker, Lance


Razov, Ante


Savage, Keith


Suarez, Claudio


Talley, Carey


Thornton, Zach


Vaughn, Lawson


Victorine, Sasha


Wicky, Raphael


Zotinca, Alex




Chicago Fire


Banner, Michael


Brown, C.J.


Carr, Calen


Frankowski, Tomasz


Herron, Andy


Kasiguran, Kai


Kettering, Tyler


King, Stephen


Lowry, Peter


Marmol, Lider


Noble, Nick


Pappa, Marco Pablo


Prideaux, Brandon


Washington, Austin


Woolard, Daniel




Colorado Rapids


Burciaga, Jose


Burpo, Preston


Cooke, Terry


Dalby, Greg


DiRaimondo, John


Erpen, Facundo


Grazier, Brian


Harvey, Jordan


Hughes, Justin


Keel, Stephen


Kimura, Kosuke


McManus, Tom


Petke, Mike


Sarkodie, Kwame


Ward, Tim


Zambrano, Cesar




Columbus Crew


Burns, Kevin


Elenio, Cory


Evans, Brad


Garey, Jason


Gaven, Eddie


Gruenebaum, Andy


Josten, George


Junge, Ryan


Lenhart, Steven


Miglioranzi, Stefani


Moffat, Adam


Noonan, Pat


Nyazamba, Stanley


Oughton, Duncan


Peterson, Andrew


Pierre-Louis, Ricardo


Plotkin, Brian


Schoeni, Kenny




FC Dallas


Burse, Ray


Daniels, Andrew


Davino, Duilio


Dello-Russo, Michael


Pitchkolan, Aaron


Rowland, Jeff


Sikora, Victor


Wadsworth, Spencer


Wagenfuhr, David


Watson, Jamie


Wileman, Chase




D.C. United


Carroll, Jeff


Carroll, Pat


Cordeiro, Ryan


Crayton, Louis


Doe, Francis


Dyachenko, Rod


Gallardo, Marcelo


Kirk, Quavas


Koroma, Ibrahim


Martinez, Gonzalo


Mediate, Domenic


Miller, Ryan


Olsen, Ben


Peralta, Gonzalo


Thompson, Craig


Thorpe, James


Vide, Joseph


Wells, Zach


Zaher, Michael




Houston Dynamo


Alcaraz, Johnny


Ashe, Corey


Barrett, Wade


Brown, Kyle


Caig, Tony


Chabala, Michael


Hatzke, Nick


Hayden, John Michael


Ianni, Patrick


Jaqua, Nate


Mulrooney, Richard


Onstad, Pat


Ustruck, Erik


Waibel, Craig


Waller, Corbin


Wondolowski, Chris


Wondolowski, Stephen




Kansas City Wizards


Hartman, Kevin


Hohlbein, Aaron


Kraus, Michael


Kronberg, Eric


Marquess, Matt


McKenzie, Rauwshan


Morsink, Kurt


Pardo, Boris


Pizarro, Nelson


Pore, Ryan


Thompson, Abe


Trujillo, Ivan


Wahl, Tyson


Watson, Lance




Los Angeles Galaxy


Adzemian, Vardan


Alamo, Charles


Allen, Ely


Barlow, Jeremy


Cronin, Steve


Dominguez, Eduardo


Franchino, Joe


Gavin, Michael


Kirovski, Jovan


Klein, Chris


Munoz, Mike


Randolph, Michael


Saunders, Josh


Tudela, Josh


Vagenas, Peter


Valentin, Julian


Wicks, Josh




New England Revolution


Angulo, Jose


Badilla, Gabriel


Brill, Samuel


Flood, Gary


Germanese, Joe


Knighton, Brad


Manzonelli, Brandon


Matamoros, Mauricio


Phelan, Pat


Smith, Khano


Thompson, Wells


Tierney, Chris


Tyler, Brandon


Warren, Doug


Zapata, Argenis Fernandez




New York Red Bulls


Borman, Danleigh


Echeverry, Oscar


Gilkerson, John


Jimenez, Diego


Kljestan, Gordon


Leitch, Chris


Magee, Mike


Mbuta, Andongcho


Mendes, Carlos


Palacio, Michael


Parke, Jeff


Patterson, Caleb


Pietravallo, Juan


Roth, David


Touray, Sainey


Wolyniec, John




Real Salt Lake


Besagno, Nik


Cutler, Kenny


Deuchar, Kenneth


Horst, David


Joy, Ian


Kirby, Dustin


Kovalenko, Dema


Mathis, Clint


Nunez, Tino


Reiman, Kevin


Reynish, Kyle


Sturgis, Nathan


Tennelle, Brennan


Williams, Andy




San Jose Earthquakes


Arce, Miguel


Ayres, Jay Michael


Cunliffe, John


Denton, Eric


Ghebru, Michael


Glinton, Gavin


Grabavoy, Ned


Gray, Kelly


Gustavson, Michael


Hatzke, Matt


O'Brien, Ronnie


Riley, James


Roberts, Jamil


Smarte, Adam


Somma, Davide




Toronto FC


Attakora-Gyan, Nana


Elkinson, Kilian


Freeman, Hunter


Gala, Gabe


Gaudet, Derek


Melo, Joey


Ricketts, Rohan


Rosenlund, Tyler


Ruiz, Carlos


Smith, Jarrod


Smith, Johann


Sutton, Greg


Velez, Marco

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