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Real Salt Lake Announces Protected List for 2017 MLS Expansion Draft

December 12, 2017 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release


SANDY, Utah (Sunday, December 10, 2017) - Real Salt Lake has announced the 11 players on the club's Protected Player list in advance of the 2017 MLS Expansion Draft, taking place this Tuesday, December 12. Los Angeles FC will select five players with no club losing more than one player to the expansion sides.

The following 11 RSL players will not be eligible for selection by LAFC when Major League Soccer's newest club makes its selections:

GK Nick Rimando

DF Justen Glad

DF David Horst

DF Marcelo Silva

MF Kyle Beckerman

MF Luke Mulholland

MF Albert Rusnák

MF Sebastian Saucedo

FW Joao Plata

FW Jefferson Savarino

FW Luis Silva

In addition to those 11 players, Homegrown Players DF Danilo Acosta, FW Jordan Allen, MF Jose Hernandez, FW Brooks Lennon and FW Ricardo Velazco are exempt from the draft and cannot be selected. Glad and Saucedo are products of RSL's Academy, too, but are no longer exempt from the Expansion Draft because they were listed on RSL's senior roster in 2017.

With the Protected Player list established, this means that the following players under contract in 2017 with Real Salt Lake will be available for selection by LAFC:

Goalkeepers: Connor Sparrow, Matt VanOekel

Defenders: Tony Beltran, Reagan Dunk, Demar Phillips, Justin Schmidt, Chris Schuler, Chris Wingert

Midfielders: Nick Besler, Omar Holness, Sunny

Forwards: Chad Barrett, Yura Movsisyan

Real Salt Lake History in MLS Expansion Drafts

2006: Toronto FC - Jason Kreis selected (re-acquired by RSL in exchange for allocation money)

2007: San Jose Earthquakes - no RSL player selected

2008: Seattle Sounders FC - Nathan Sturgis selected

2009: Philadelphia Union - no RSL player selected (RSL traded Chris Seitz to Union in exchange for allocation money on eve of expansion draft)

2010: Portland Timbers/Vancouver Whitecaps FC - Portland selected Robbie Findley and David Horst

2011: Montreal Impact - Collen Warner selected

2014: New York City FC/Orlando City SC - NYCFC selected Ned Grabavoy and Chris Wingert

2016: Minnesota United/Atlanta United - Minnesota selected Jeff Attinella

*Prior to its inaugural 2005 campaign, Real Salt Lake selected Andy Williams, D.J. Countess, Pablo Brenes, Brian Kamler, Nelson Akwari, Chris Brown, Matt Behncke, Rusty Pierce, Kevin Ara and Erick Scott in the 2004 MLS Expansion Draft on November 19, 2004.

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