Protected player list for expansion draft released

All of the protected/unavailable players for today’s expansion draft has been released by the MLS.

The SuperDraft is in place to accommodate incoming franchise Philadelphia Union who step into the competition in 2010 and gives them the chance to take players from other clubs.

Each club has a number of protected players who cannot be taken but 11 players from each of the 15 MLS clubs as well as 26 Generation adidas youngsters are up for grabs.

The following is the entire list of players the Union cannot go for in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft:

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