No FCD Players Taken
November 25th, 2009 . 3:21 pm . By: Buzz CarrickIn today’s expansion draft. Here’s the MLS release… MLS Releases Results of 2009 Expansion DraftAlejandro Moreno, Shavar Thomas highlight list of selections for Philadelphia Union NEW YORK (Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009) – Major League Soccer held its 2009 Expansion Draft today for the League’s 16th team, Philadelphia Union, with the team selecting 10 players from among nearly 200 left unprotected by all Major League Soccer clubs. Highlighting Union head coach Peter Nowak’s 10 selections are MLS veterans Alejandro Moreno and Shavar Thomas, both of whom started 17 games for their respective clubs in 2009. Moreno, a Venezuelan international, just completed his eighth year in MLS, has scored 43 regular season goals in his career, and scored in MLS Cup 2008 for the Columbus Crew. Thomas has seven seasons under his belt as a centerback, represents Jamaica internationally, and was part of Chivas USA’s stingy defense in 2009 that allowed just 31 goals in 30 games. Philadelphia also selected Sebastien Le Toux, the first player signed by Seattle Sounders FC who had led the USL Sounders in scoring and who played in 28 MLS regular season games in 2009. The complete list of 10 selections is below. Five teams did not have a player selected – FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City Wizards, Real Salt Lake and Toronto FC. Each of the League’s 15 teams was allowed to protect 11 players, leaving all others unprotected and available for selection by the Union. The 2008 expansion draft proved fruitful for Seattle Sounders FC, who selected Nate Jaqua, Brad Evans and James Riley last year. Sounders FC were the first expansion team to make the playoffs since 1998. Philadelphia Union, Major League Soccer’s 16th team, will begin play in the Eastern Conference in the 2010 season. They will play their home opener at Lincoln Financial Field on April 10, 2010 and open their home stadium, Union Field, during the 2010 season. Below is a complete list of player selected in this year’s draft. Philadelphia Union 2009 Expansion Draft Selections(listed in alphabetical order) Player (Pos.) Former Club 11 Comments Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI Leave a comment |
Interesting choices….
Surprised Wallace was not taken…but I still don’t expect to see us have him on our opening day roster.
Buzz, you called it. No FCD players taken. Give yourself another point.
loo, thanks JC.
Mark, me neither
It would be retarded to keep Blake over Wally, simple as that
Is it not troubling that two years in a row no one from FCD was taken. Are our players that bad that a brand new team wouldn’t take them for free?
Is there a list somewhere of the players that we exposed? I’d have to think that the majority of our final starting XI was protected, and we don’t exactly have a whole lot after that.
Most teams don’t have as many automatically protected guys through Ga like we do. That helps.
Harlan,
Burse, Ray
Purdy, Steve
Ricchetti, Pablo
Rocha, Andre
Sala, Dario
Torres, Daniel
Van Den Bergh, Dave
Wagner, Blake
Wallace, Anthony
Wow, so we left Dario Sala exposed but the Union picked up Brad Knighton (??) from the Revolution. I suppose Dario’s age configured in that decision.
Also surprised to see the Crew left Moreno exposed…naturally the Union were going to grab that player. Otherwise, this is not the greatest expansion list I’ve seen. Perhaps Salinas and LeToux are decent but otherwise, a awful lot of journeyman and “has beens” selected. Slim pickings it seems, yes?
Thanks Buzz. My apologies, I didn’t notice it was already on this site and the FCD blog. Blame it on allergies or something.
Glad to see we didn’t lose DVB or Sala from that list.