2009 MLS expansion draft

2009 MLS Expansion Draft
General information
Date(s)	November 25, 2009
Overview
Expansion team	Philadelphia Union
Expansion season	2010

The 2009 MLS Expansion Draft took place on November 25, 2009, and was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Philadelphia Union.

Format

Source

• Only 1 player may be selected from each team. Five of the league's 15 current teams will not have a player selected.
• Teams will be allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation Adidas players are automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2009 season are not.
• Teams with 4 or more international players must protect 3 of them. If a team has 3 or fewer international players, then it must protect all but one.
• Any developmental players selected must be moved up to the senior roster for the 2010 season.

Expansion Draft Results

#	Player	Position	Country	Previous club
1	Jordan Harvey	D	United States	Colorado Rapids
2	Andrew Jacobson	M	United States	D.C. United
3	Brad Knighton	GK	United States	New England Revolution
4	Sébastien Le Toux	F	France	Seattle Sounders FC
5	Stefani Miglioranzi	M	Brazil	Los Angeles Galaxy
6	Alejandro Moreno	F	Venezuela	Columbus Crew
7	David Myrie	D	Costa Rica	Chicago Fire
8	Shea Salinas	M	United States	San Jose Earthquakes
9	Shavar Thomas	D	Jamaica	Chivas USA
10	Nick Zimmerman	M	United States	New York Red Bulls

Team-by-team breakdown

Source

Chicago Fire

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Mike Banner	C. J. Brown	Baggio Husidić
Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Jon Busch
Calen Carr	Wilman Conde
Stefan Dimitrov	Justin Mapp
Andrew Dykstra	Brian McBride
Peter Lowry	Patrick Nyarko
David Myrie	Marco Pappa
Chris Rolfe	Logan Pause
Gonzalo Segares	Dasan Robinson
Austin Washington	John Thorrington
Daniel Woolard	Tim Ward

Chivas USA

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Chukwudi Chijindu	Jonathan Bornstein	César Zamora
Jon Conway	Justin Braun
Jim Curtin	Yamith Cuesta
Kevin Harmse	Jorge Flores
Ante Jazić	Maykel Galindo
Dan Kennedy	Sacha Kljestan
Eduardo Lillingston	Michael Lahoud
Jesse Marsch	Paulo Nagamura
Gerson Mayen	Jesús Padilla
Lance Parker	Maicon Santos
Ante Razov	Zach Thornton
Marcelo Saragosa
Bojan Stepanović
Claudio Suárez
Carey Talley
Shavar Thomas
Mariano Trujillo
Sasha Victorine

Colorado Rapids

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Mehdi Ballouchy	Julien Baudet	Ciaran O'Brien
Preston Burpo	Conor Casey	Rob Valentino
Steward Ceus	Colin Clark
Greg Dalby	Omar Cummings
Facundo Diz	Cory Gibbs
Ty Harden	Kosuke Kimura
Jordan Harvey	Nick LaBrocca
Michael Holody	Pablo Mastroeni
Pat Noonan	Drew Moor
Scott Palguta	Matt Pickens
Jacob Peterson	Jamie Smith
Ross Schunk

Columbus Crew

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Kevin Burns	Guillermo Barros Schelotto	Jed Zayner
Cory Elenio	Eric Brunner
Jason Garey	Brian Carroll
Alex Grendi	Emmanuel Ekpo
Andy Gruenebaum	Eddie Gaven
Frankie Hejduk	William Hesmer
Andy Iro	Steven Lenhart
Alejandro Moreno	Chad Marshall
Gino Padula	Adam Moffat
Duncan Oughton	Danny O'Rourke
Emilio Rentería	Robbie Rogers
Kenny Schoeni

DC United

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Ely Allen	Marc Burch	Bill Hamid
Brandon Barklage	Fred
John DiRaimondo	Dejan Jakovic
Luciano Emilio	Julius James
Christian Gómez	Jaime Moreno
David Habarugira	Bryan Namoff
Andrew Jacobson	Chris Pontius
Greg Janicki	Santino Quaranta
Avery John	Clyde Simms
Thabiso Khumalo	Danny Szetela
Miloš Kočić	Rodney Wallace
Devon McTavish
Ange N'Silu
Ty Shipalane
Lawson Vaughn
Josh Wicks

FC Dallas

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Ray Burse	Jair Benítez	Eric Avila
Pablo Ricchetti	Marvin Chávez	Bruno Guarda
André Rocha	Jeff Cunningham	Josh Lambo
Steve Purdy	Kyle Davies	Bryan Leyva
Darío Sala	David Ferreira	Perica Marošević
Daniel Torres	Atiba Harris	Brek Shea
Dave van den Bergh	Daniel Hernández
Blake Wagner	Ugo Ihemelu
Anthony Wallace	George John
	Dax McCarty
	Heath Pearce

Houston Dynamo

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Wade Barrett	Corey Ashe	Daniel Cruz
Mike Chabala	Bobby Boswell	Tyler Deric
Ricardo Clark	Geoff Cameron
Ryan Cochrane	Brian Ching
John Michael Hayden	Brad Davis
Luis Ángel Landín	Tally Hall
Richard Mulrooney	Andrew Hainault
Pat Onstad	Stuart Holden
Eddie Robinson	Brian Mullan
Abe Thompson	Dominic Oduro
Erik Ustruck	Cam Weaver
Craig Waibel

Kansas City Wizards

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Matt Besler	Davy Arnaud	Roger Espinoza
Adam Cristman	Jimmy Conrad	Chance Myers
Herculez Gomez	Michael Harrington
Kevin Hartman	Zoltán Hercegfalvi
Santiago Hirsig	Jack Jewsbury
Aaron Hohlbein	Kei Kamara
Michael Kraus	Jonathan Leathers
Eric Kronberg	Claudio López
Matt Marquess	Kevin Souter
Rauwshan McKenzie	Josh Wolff
Kurt Morsink	Graham Zusi
Boris Pardo
Lance Watson

Los Angeles Galaxy

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Todd Dunivant	David Beckham	Tristan Bowen
Alecko Eskandarian	Gregg Berhalter	Israel Sesay
Alan Gordon	Chris Birchall
Leonard Griffin	Edson Buddle
Bryan Jordan	A. J. DeLaGarza
Jovan Kirovski	Landon Donovan
Chris Klein	Sean Franklin
Eddie Lewis	Omar Gonzalez
Yohance Marshall	Dema Kovalenko
Stefani Miglioranzi	Mike Magee
Kyle Patterson	Donovan Ricketts
Tony Sanneh
Josh Saunders
Julian Valentin

New England Revolution

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Chris Albright	Kevin Alston	Nico Colaluca
Stephane Assengue	Darrius Barnes
Gabriel Badilla	Kheli Dube
Mauricio Castro	Shalrie Joseph
Jay Heaps	Jeff Larentowicz
Amaechi Igwe	Kenny Mansally
Edgaras Jankauskas	Sainey Nyassi
Brad Knighton	Emmanuel Osei
Pat Phelan	Steve Ralston
Bobby Shuttleworth	Matt Reis
Wells Thompson	Taylor Twellman
Chris Tierney
Michael Videira

New York Red Bulls

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Andrew Boyens	Juan Pablo Ángel	Giorgi Chirgadze
Danny Cepero	Danleigh Borman
Walter Garcia	Bouna Coundoul
Leo Krupnik	Kevin Goldthwaite
Matthew Mbuta	Jeremy Hall
Mike Petke	Carlos Johnson
Jorge Rojas	Macoumba Kandji
Luke Sassano	Carlos Mendes
Siniša Ubiparipović	Ernst Öbster
John Wolyniec	Dane Richards
Nick Zimmerman	Seth Stammler

Real Salt Lake

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Jean Alexandre	Kyle Beckerman	Alex Nimo
Pablo Campos	Tony Beltran
Raphael Cox	Nat Borchers
Rachid El Khalifi	Fabián Espíndola
Nelson González	Robbie Findley
Ned Grabavoy	Will Johnson
David Horst	Javier Morales
Clint Mathis	Jámison Olave
Yura Movsisyan	Nick Rimando
Tino Nuñez	Chris Seitz
Kyle Reynish	Chris Wingert
Robbie Russell
Andy Williams

San Jose Earthquakes

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Quincy Amarikwa	Arturo Alvarez
Bobby Convey	Bobby Burling
Simon Elliott	Joe Cannon
Mike Graczyk	Ramiro Corrales
Darren Huckerby	Cornell Glen
Aaron Pitchkolan	Jason Hernandez
António Ribeiro	Ryan Johnson
Jamil Roberts	Chris Leitch
Shea Salinas	André Luiz
Andrew Weber	Brandon McDonald
Chris Wondolowski	Ramón Sánchez
Mike Zaher

Seattle Sounders FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Terry Boss	Osvaldo Alonso
Evan Brown	Brad Evans
Chris Eylander	Leonardo González
Michael Fucito	Jhon Kennedy Hurtado
Taylor Graham	Patrick Ianni
Stephen King	Nate Jaqua
Sébastien Le Toux	Kasey Keller
Roger Levesque	Freddie Ljungberg
Lamar Neagle	Tyrone Marshall
Sanna Nyassi	Fredy Montero
James Riley	Steve Zakuani
Zach Scott
Nathan Sturgis
Peter Vagenas
Tyson Wahl

Toronto FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Brian Edwards	Nana Attakora	Stefan Frei
Gabe Gala	Chad Barrett	Fuad Ibrahim
Nick Garcia	Jim Brennan
Ali Gerba	Sam Cronin
Amado Guevara	Julian de Guzman
Lesly Fellinga	Dwayne De Rosario
Carl Robinson	Emmanuel Gómez
Pablo Vitti	Amadou Sanyang
	Adrian Serioux
	O'Brian White
	Marvell Wynne