FCD Expansion Draft Protected List
November 25th, 2008 . 10:08 am . By: Buzz CarrickFC Dallas has announced their list of protected player for Wednesday’s expansion draft. As predicted Blake Wagner was graduated form Generation adidas and was protected. The remaining five Generation adidas players are exempt from the expansion draft and do not require protectio. For a more in-depth look at why players were protected, or not, you can check out or own protected list from a month ago The only one we missed on was the new boy Victor Sikora. His non-protection can’t be a good sign in terms of his contract being renewed. Which doesn’t mean he might not try and stick around and win a job if he’s not picked, but it probably isn’t going to be on his current option. Or perhaps FCD deemed him a high risk pick at his salary and are rolling the dice he won’t get taken. Here’s the official list. FCD ANNOUNCES LIST OF PLAYERS AVAILABLE FOR MLS EXPANSION DRAFTFRISCO, Texas (Monday, Nov. 24, 2008) — FC Dallas today announced the list of players that will be available for selection in the 2008 MLS Expansion Draft. Seattle Sounders FC will enter Major League Soccer as the League’s 15th team for the 2009 season. The 10-round MLS Expansion Draft will take place on Wednesday, November 26 at 12 p.m. CT. All MLS teams were required to submit a list of 11 players that will be protected from the Expansion Draft by 3 p.m. ET today, Nov. 24. Players who are members of the League’s Generation adidas Development program are automatically protected and cannot be exposed. Dallas has five Generation adidas players on its 27-man roster: Josh Lambo, Brek Shea, Eric Avila, Bruno Guarda, and Anthony Wallace. Blake Wagner graduated from the program following the 2008 season. The 11 FC Dallas protected players:Goalkeeper: Dario Sala Defenders: Drew Moor, Adrian Serioux, Blake Wagner Midfielders: Andre Rocha, Dax McCarty, Pablo Ricchetti, Marcelo Saragosa. Forwards: Kenny Cooper, Jeff Cunningham, Dominic Oduro Seattle may select a maximum of one player from each of the 14 MLS team’s unprotected player list during the 10-round draft (four teams will not have a player selected). The following 11 FCD players are available for selection:Goalkeeper: Ray Burse Defenders: Aaron Pitchkolan, Duilio Davino, Andrew Daniels, Michael Dello-Russo, David Wagenfuhr. Midfielders: Victor Sikora, Spencer Wadsworth, Chase Wileman. Forwards: Jamie Watson, Jeff Rowland. Teams could make available a number of international players equal to their total number of international players minus three, provided that if a team has three or less international players it could make available not more than one. Dallas has eight international players (Ricchetti, Rocha, Saragosa, Guarda, Serioux, Davino, Oduro, and Sikora), thus was required to project at least three. 20 Comments Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI Leave a comment |
I think we didn’t protect Sikora because Seattle has 4 players now, and 2 of them are wingers (Ljunberg and Nyassi), so I don’t think they would sign a 3rd, especially at Sikora’s price
Aaron, fair point, quite possible.
But recall that in previous expansion drafts a great many players are picked and traded. IIRC Toronto didn’t keep a single player they picked.
seattle said ljunberg was playing AM as well
i’d like to see sikora stay, too bad he spent most of his time injured/recovering from injury to solidify his spot…maybe they’ll take davino…
I wonder if certain teams call these expansion clubs before the draft, offering sweeteners like allocation money if they take certain players off their books…
IMO. i think Burse is gone. He’s not far away from starting in this league and, given that Cepero, Wells, Kennedy, Cronin, etc, started games this year, he would fill in nicely if Keller were to be injured.
i know a backup gk is not what an expansion team is likely to pick up, but they’ve got to have one at some point and there arent any other attractive options from FCD, other than Pitch and maybe Dello.
buzz, is it really fair to have SJ put players into the expansion draft after they’ve only been in the league for a single year after expansion themselves?
The lists reminds us of just how little talent is left since SH arrived. Peter Wilt, the former GM of Chicago, said in his mock draft that there wasn’t a single player on the Dallas roster of exposed players that he would want on his expansion team.
Too bad we couldn’t swap Pitch for Saragosa in those two lists.
Bye, Pitch. Sigh, welcome back Saragosa.
TT, not sure fair has much to do with it. Rules are rules.
Peter…agreed. I’m not sure what worries me worse: the fact that my first thought was “oh no, we can’t lose Pitch”, or the realization “oh no, we can’t lose Pitch”. Nothing against him – frankly, I really admire him – but come on Super Draft and/or free agent signing and/or trade.
Buzz,
In a pre-draft trade, what would it take to insure that Seattle WOULD take Davino off our hands?
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I was surprised to see that Guarda is an international. I knew he was born in South America, but I figured he was naturalized or got a green card at some point. Buzz, do you know if FCD is working on that and whether we can expect a Saragosa-like timeframe for issuance?
On a related note, FCD cannot afford to have Guarda, Oduro, Davino, and Saragosa occupying four international slots. We we need to reserve most of those slots for guys like Richetti, Serioux, and Rocha that make the team much better or have big upside. And if SH is eying internationals to fill the holes in the defense and midfield (and up top if Cooper leaves), he doesn’t have enough slots.
I gotta say kudos to SH for this list. The only person that makes me kind of sad is Pitch if he goes because I really thought he came into his own this year.
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Green Cards: I think the team can assist with filing the paperwork – but the timing of when a player actually receives it is all on the governments involved.
Steve, Never happen. Even for free Seattle won’t take him.
Big B, Guarda has said he has started the green card process. But he is way away from that.
out of the names for FCD, pitch seems to be the most likely. since SH is already scouting for CBs, i’m sure he’s already hoping for somebody to pick up pitch since he mentioned he’s similar to drew moor and won’t start in front of davino. if seattle trades their selections to other teams, we would be able to capitalize on that since we have plenty of money. eddie gavin anyone?