2008 MLS Expansion Draft

2008 MLS Expansion Draft
General information
Date(s)	November 26, 2008
Overview
Expansion team	Seattle Sounders FC
Expansion season	2009
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The 2008 MLS Expansion Draft took place on November 26, 2008, and was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Seattle Sounders FC. They made 10 selections from a pool of players from the other 14 MLS clubs.

Format[]

Source

• Only one player could be selected from each team. Four of the league's 14 current teams did not have a player selected.
• Teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation Adidas players were automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2008 season were not.
• Teams with 4 or more international players were required to protect 3 of them. If a team had 3 or fewer international players, then it was required to protect all but one.
• Any developmental players selected were required to be moved up to the senior roster for the 2009 season.

Expansion Draft Results[]

#	Player	Position	Country	Previous club
1	Nate Jaqua	F	United States	Houston Dynamo
2	Nathan Sturgis	M	United States	Real Salt Lake
3	Jeff Parke	D	United States	New York Red Bulls
4	Jarrod Smith	F	New Zealand	Toronto FC
5	Khano Smith	M	Bermuda	New England Revolution
6	Peter Vagenas	M	United States	Los Angeles Galaxy
7	Tyson Wahl	D	United States	Kansas City Wizards
8	James Riley	D	United States	San Jose Earthquakes
9	Stephen King	M	United States	Chicago Fire
10	Brad Evans	M	United States	Columbus Crew

Team-by-team breakdown[]

Source^{[permanent dead link]}

Chicago Fire[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Mike Banner	Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Patrick Nyarko
C. J. Brown	Jon Busch
Calen Carr	Wilman Conde, Jr.
Tomasz Frankowski	Justin Mapp
Andy Herron	Brian McBride
Kai Kasiguran	Logan Pause
Tyler Kettering	Dasan Robinson
Stephen King	Chris Rolfe
Peter Lowry	Gonzalo Segares
Líder Mármol	Bakary Soumare
Nick Noble	John Thorrington
Marco Pappa
Brandon Prideaux
Austin Washington
Daniel Woolard

Chivas USA[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Kraig Chiles	Bobby Burling
Jim Curtin	Jonathan Bornstein
Dejair	Justin Braun
Eric Ebert	Alecko Eskandarian
Jorge Flores	Maykel Galindo
Anthony Hamilton	Atiba Harris
Dan Kennedy	Sacha Kljestan
Gerson Mayen	Jesse Marsch
Roberto Nurse	Francisco Mendoza
Daniel Paladini	Paulo Nagamura
Lance Parker	Shavar Thomas
Ante Razov
Keith Savage
Claudio Suárez
Carey Talley
Zach Thornton
Lawson Vaughn
Sasha Victorine
Raphaël Wicky
Alex Zotinca

Colorado Rapids[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
José Burciaga, Jr.	Mehdi Ballouchy	Nico Colaluca
Preston Burpo	Conor Casey	Ciaran O'Brien
Terry Cooke	Colin Clark
Greg Dalby	Bouna Coundoul
John DiRaimondo	Omar Cummings
Facundo Erpen	Cory Gibbs
Brian Grazier	Christian Gómez
Jordan Harvey	Ugo Ihemelu
Justin Hughes	Nick LaBrocca
Stephen Keel	Pablo Mastroeni
Kosuke Kimura	Jacob Peterson
Tam McManus
Mike Petke
Kwame Sarkodie
Tim Ward
Cesar Zambrano

Columbus Crew[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Kevin Burns	Guillermo Barros Schelotto	Jed Zayner
Cory Elenio	Brian Carroll
Brad Evans	Emmanuel Ekpo
Jason Garey	Frankie Hejduk
Eddie Gaven	Will Hesmer
Andy Gruenebaum	Andy Iro
Ezra Hendrickson	Chad Marshall
George Josten	Alejandro Moreno
Ryan Junge	Danny O'Rourke
Steven Lenhart	Gino Padula
Stefani Miglioranzi	Robbie Rogers
Adam Moffat
Pat Noonan
Stanley Nyazamba
Duncan Oughton
Andrew Peterson
Ricardo Pierre-Louis
Brian Plotkin
Kenny Schoeni

DC United[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Jeff Carroll	Marc Burch
Pat Carroll	Luciano Emilio
Ryan Cordeiro	Fred
Louis Crayton	Iván Guerrero
Francis Doe	Greg Janicki
Rod Dyachenko	Thabiso Khumalo
Marcelo Gallardo	Devon McTavish
Quavas Kirk	Jaime Moreno
Ibrahim Koroma	Bryan Namoff
Gonzalo Martínez	Santino Quaranta
Domenic Mediate	Clyde Simms
Ryan Miller
Ben Olsen
Gonzalo Peralta
Craig Thompson
James Thorpe
Joe Vide
Zach Wells
Mike Zaher

FC Dallas[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Ray Burse	Kenny Cooper	Eric Avila
Andrew Daniels	Jeff Cunningham	Bruno Guarda
Duilio Davino	Dax McCarty	Josh Lambo
Michael Dello-Russo	Drew Moor	Brek Shea
Aaron Pitchkolan	Dominic Oduro	Anthony Wallace
Jeff Rowland	Pablo Ricchetti
Victor Sikora	André Rocha
Spencer Wadsworth	Darío Sala
David Wagenfuhr	Marcelo Saragosa
Jamie Watson	Adrian Serioux
Chase Wileman	Blake Wagner

Houston Dynamo[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
	Bobby Boswell
Corey Ashe	Geoff Cameron
Wade Barrett	Brian Ching
Kyle Brown	Ricardo Clark
Tony Caig	Brad Davis
Mike Chabala	Dwayne De Rosario
Nick Hatzke	Stuart Holden
John Michael Hayden	Kei Kamara
Patrick Ianni	Guy-Roland Kpene
Nate Jaqua	Brian Mullan
Richard Mulrooney	Eddie Robinson
Pat Onstad
Erik Ustruck
Craig Waibel
Corbin Waller
Chris Wondolowski
Stephen Wondolowski

Kansas City Wizards[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Kevin Hartman	Davy Arnaud	Roger Espinoza
Aaron Hohlbein	Jimmy Conrad	Chance Myers
Michael Kraus	Adam Cristman
Eric Kronberg	Herculez Gomez
Matt Marquess	Michael Harrington
Rauwshan McKenzie	Jack Jewsbury
Kurt Morsink	Jon Leathers
Boris Pardo	Claudio López
Iván Trujillo	Carlos Marinelli
Nelson Pizarro	Kevin Souter
Ryan Pore	Josh Wolff
Abe Thompson
Tyson Wahl
Lance Watson

Los Angeles Galaxy[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Vardan Adzemian	David Beckham	Tristan Bowen
Charles Alamo	Edson Buddle	Israel Sesay
Ely Allen	Landon Donovan
Jeremy Barlow	Sean Franklin
Steve Cronin	Alan Gordon
Eduardo Dominguez	Ante Jazic
Joe Franchino	Bryan Jordan
Michael Gavin	Eddie Lewis
Jovan Kirovski	Brandon McDonald
Chris Klein	Álvaro Pires
Mike Munoz	Troy Roberts
Mike Randolph
Josh Saunders
Josh Tudela
Peter Vagenas
Julian Valentin
Josh Wicks

New England Revolution[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
José Angulo	Chris Albright	Amaechi Igwe
Gabriel Badilla	Kheli Dube	Rob Valentino
Sam Brill	Jay Heaps
Mauricio Castro	Shalrie Joseph
Argenis Fernández	Jeff Larentowicz
Gary Flood	Kenny Mansally
Joe Germanese	Sainey Nyassi
Brad Knighton	Michael Parkhurst
Brandon Manzonelli	Steve Ralston
Pat Phelan	Matt Reis
Khano Smith	Taylor Twellman
Wells Thompson
Chris Tierney
Brandon Tyler
Doug Warren

New York Red Bulls[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Danleigh Borman	Juan Pablo Ángel
Terry Boss	Danny Cepero
Andrew Boyens	Jon Conway
Gabriel Cichero	Kevin Goldthwaite
Óscar Echeverry	Macoumba Kandji
John Gilkerson	Dane Richards
Diego Jimenez	Jorge Rojas
Gordon Kljestan	Luke Sassano
Chris Leitch	Seth Stammler
Mike Magee	Siniša Ubiparipović
Matthew Mbuta	Dave van den Bergh
Carlos Mendes
Mike Palacio
Jeff Parke
Caleb Patterson-Sewell
Juan Pietravallo
David Roth
Sainey Touray
John Wolyniec

Real Salt Lake[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Nikolas Besagno	Kyle Beckerman	Tony Beltran
Kenny Cutler	Nat Borchers	Alex Nimo
Kenny Deuchar	Fabián Espíndola	Chris Seitz
David Horst	Robbie Findley
Ian Joy	Will Johnson
Dustin Kirby	Javier Morales
Dema Kovalenko	Yura Movsisyan
Clint Mathis	Jámison Olave
Tino Núñez	Nick Rimando
Kevin Reiman	Robbie Russell
Kyle Reynish	Chris Wingert
Nathan Sturgis
Brennan Tennelle
Andy Williams

San Jose Earthquakes[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Mikel Arce	Arturo Alvarez
Jay Ayres	Joe Cannon
John Cunliffe	Ryan Cochrane
Eric Denton	Ramiro Corrales
Gavin Glinton	Nick Garcia
Ned Grabavoy	Jason Hernandez
Kelly Gray	Darren Huckerby
Michael Gustavson	Ryan Johnson
Matt Hatzke	Francisco Lima
Amir Lowery	Shea Salinas
Ronnie O'Brien	Scott Sealy
James Riley
Jamil Roberts
Adam Smarte
Davide Somma

Toronto FC[]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Nana Attakora	Chad Barrett	Fuad Ibrahim
Kilian Elkinson	Jim Brennan
Hunter Freeman	Danny Dichio
Gabe Gala	Todd Dunivant
Derek Gaudet	Brian Edwards
Joey Melo	Amado Guevara
Rohan Ricketts	Kevin Harmse
Tyler Rosenlund	Julius James
Carlos Ruiz	Tyrone Marshall
Jarrod Smith	Carl Robinson
Johann Smith	Marvell Wynne
Greg Sutton
Marco Vélez