2009 MLS Expansion Draft

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

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The 2009 MLS Expansion Draft took place on November 25, 2009,[1] and was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Philadelphia Union.

## Format[edit]

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[edit]

# | Player | Position | Country | Previous club

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|
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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[edit]

Source[permanent dead link]

### Chicago Fire[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Exposed

Protected

Exempt

|
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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[edit]

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[edit]

Exposed

Protected

Exempt

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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[edit]

Exposed

Protected

Exempt

|
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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Exposed

Protected

Exempt

|
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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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 |

## References[edit]

1. ^ Philadelphia Union Expansion Draft Date Set

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