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Philadelphia Union To Select From Unprotected Players In 2009 MLS Expansion Draft On Wednesday, Nov.

November 23, 2009 - Major League Soccer (MLS) News Release


NEW YORK (Monday, Nov. 23, 2009) - Major League Soccer will hold the 2009 MLS Expansion Draft on Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 1 p.m. ET. The League's 16th team, Philadelphia Union, will begin to take shape following the 10-round draft.

Listed below are the details regarding the League's expansion draft, as well as the protected player list and the list of players who are graduating from Generation adidas. Philadelphia may not claim more than one player from any given team in MLS, and five teams will not have a player taken in the expansion draft.

At the conclusion of the Expansion Draft teams may resume trading. The expansion draft details are listed below:

MLS Expansion Draft Rules

2009 MLS Expansion Draft Rules

Senior Roster

Teams may protect 11 players between their Senior and their Developmental Roster. If the Player's contract expires at the end of 2009, he will still be considered part of the Team's Senior Roster. If a Team protects a player, it is not obligated to exercise the player's option. It may renegotiate a new budget number for the player as in previous years. If a player retires, he will not be a part of the Senior Roster, but his Team will lose its right of first refusal to him should he ultimately decide to play.

Developmental Roster

Players on a Team's Developmental Roster, other than Generation adidas players who have not been graduated at the end of the 2009 season and Home Grown Players, will be part of the expansion draft. Generation adidas players (who have not been graduated at the end of the2009 season) and Home Grown players are automatically protected (teams do not have to use a protected slot on them)If Philadelphia selects a Developmental Player it must offer him a Senior Roster position and he must be on Philadelphia's Senior Roster as of Roster Compliance Date.

International Players

Teams are restricted in the number of International player(s) that they may make available per the table set forth below. For purposes of this expansion process, for US-based teams, any non-domestic US player would count as an International and for Toronto FC, any non-domestic US player or non-domestic Canadian player would count as an International.

Designated Players

Designated Players do not have to be protected unless the player has a no trade clause in which case he must be protected.

Maximum Player Loss

Once a player has been claimed from a Team's non-protected roster, that team is eliminated from the expansion draft and may not lose any further players.

Right to Renegotiate

Philadelphia will have the right to renegotiate a drafted player's salary (either up or down) without having to place such player on waivers or giving his previous Team a right of first refusal.

Priority

On the first day of the Discovery/Allocation Period, Philadelphia will have priority over players who played professionally in the USL First or Second Division in 2009, subject to another MLS team's right of first refusal.

Rounds

The expansion draft will be 10 rounds.

INTERNATIONAL PLAYER PROTECTION REQUIREMENT TABLE:

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Teams may make available a number of international players equal to their total number of international players minus 3, provided that if a team has 3 orless international players it may make available not more than 1.

COMPLETE LIST OF AVAILABLE PLAYERS FOR WEDNESDAY'S DRAFT

Chivas USA

Bornstein, Jonathan

Braun, Justin

Flores, Jorge

Padilla, Jesus

Galindo, Maykel

Lahoud, Michael

Kljestan, Sacha

Nagamura, Paulo

Thornton, Zach

Cuesta, Yamith

Santos, Maicon

Chicago Fire

Busch, Jon

Conde, Wilman

Brown, C.J.

Mapp, Justin

McBride, Brian

Nyarko, Patrick

Pappa, Marco

Pause, Logan

Thorrington, John

Robinson, Dasan

Ward, Tim

Colorado Rapids

Baudet, Julien

Casey, Conor

Clark, Colin

Cummings, Omar

Gibbs, Cory

Kimura, Kosuke

LaBrocca, Nick

Mastroeni, Pablo

Moor, Drew

Pickens, Matt

Smith, Jamie

Columbus Crew

Brunner, Eric

Carroll, Brian

Ekpo, Emmanuel

Gaven, Eddie

Hesmer, Will (GK)

Lenhart, Steven

Marshall, Chad

Moffat, Adam

O'Rourke, Danny

Rogers, Robbie

Schelotto, Guillermo

FC Dallas

Benitez, Jair

Chavez, Marvin

Cunningham, Jeff

Davies, Kyle

Ferreira, David

Harris, Atiba

Hernandez, Daniel

Ihemelu, Ugo

John, George

McCarty, Dax

Pearce, Heath

D.C. United

Burch, Marc

Carreiro, Fred

Jakovic, Dejan

James, Julius

Moreno, Jaime

Namoff, Bryan

Pontius, Chris

Quaranta, Santino

Simms, Clyde

Szetela, Danny

Wallace, Rodney

Houston Dynamo

Ashe, Corey

Boswell, Bobby

Cameron, Geoff

Ching, Brian

Davis, Brad

Hall, Tally

Hainault, Andrew

Holden, Stuart

Mullan, Brian

Oduro, Dominic

Weaver, Cameron

Kansas City Wizards

Arnaud, Davy

Conrad, Jimmy

Harrington, Michael

Hercegfalvi, Zoltan

Jewsbury, Jack

Kamara, Kei

Leathers, Jonathan

Lopez, Claudio

Souter, Kevin

Wolff, Josh

Zusi, Graham

Los Angeles Galaxy

Beckham, David

Berhalter, Gregg

Birchall, Chris

Buddle, Edson

DeLagarza, AJ

Donovan, Landon

Franklin, Sean

Gonzalez, Omar

Kovalenko, Dema

Magee, Mike

Ricketts, Donovan

New England Revolution

Alston, Kevin

Barnes, Darrius

Dube, Mkhokheli

Joseph, Shalrie

Larentowicz, Jeff

Mansally, Abdoulie

Nyassi, Sainey

Osei, Emmanuel

Ralston, Steve

Reis, Matt

Twellman, Taylor

New York Red Bulls

Angel, Juan Pablo

Borman, Danleigh

Coundoul, Bouna

Goldthwaite, Kevin

Hall, Jeremy

Johnson, Carlos

Kandji, Macoumba

Mendes, Carlos

Obster, Ernst

Richards, Dane

Stammler, Seth

Real Salt Lake

Beckerman, Kyle

Beltran, Tony

Borchers, Nat

Espindola, Fabian

Findley, Robbie

Johnson, Will

Morales, Javier

Olave, Jamison

Rimando, Nick

Seitz, Chris

Wingert, Chris

San Jose Earthquakes

Alvarez, Arturo

Burling, Bobby

Cannon, Joe

Corrales, Ramiro

Glenn, Cornell

Hernandez, Jason

Johnson, Ryan

Leitch, Chris

Moreira, Andre Luiz

Sanchez, Ramon

McDonald, Brandon

Seattle Sounders FC

Alonso, Osvaldo

Evans, Brad

Gonzalez, Leo

Hurtado, Jhon Kennedy

Ianni, Patrick

Jaqua, Nate

Keller, Kasey

Ljungberg, Freddie

Marshall, Tyrone

Montero, Fredy

Zakuani, Steve

Toronto FC

Attakora-Gyan, Nana

Barrett, Chad

Brennan, Jim

Cronin, Sam

de Guzman, Julian

DeRosario, Dwayne

Gomez, Emmanuel

Sanyang, Amadou

Serioux, Adrian

White, O'Brian

Wynne, Marvell

Generation adidas Graduates

Alston, Kevin

Avila, Eric

Beltran, Tony

Bowen, Tristan

Colaluca, Nico

Cruz, Daniel

Espinoza, Roger

Frei, Stefan

Gonzalez, Omar

Guarda, Bruno

Hall, Jeremy

Husidic, Baggio

Ibrahim, Fuad

Igwe, Amaechi

Lambo, Josh

Marosevic, Peri

Myers, Chance

Nimo, Alex

Nyarko, Patrick

O'Brien, Ciaran

Seitz, Chris

Shea, Brek

Valentino, Rob

Wallace, Anthony

Wallace, Rodney

Zakuani, Steve

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