St. Louis CITY SC will have a plethora of players to select from in Friday’s MLS Expansion Draft.
Among key players available are Philadelphia Union midfielder Alejandro Bedoya, Colorado Rapids forward Gyasi Zardes, New York Red Bulls attacker Patryk Klimala, and FC Cincinnati defender Geoff Cameron. Several goalkeepers will also be up for grabs with Minnesota United’s Tyler Miller, Sporting KC’s Tim Melia, and Inter Miami’s C.J. Dos Santos also on the available list.
St. Louis CITY SC will be able to select up to five players in the draft, but they cannot select more than one player from the same team. Austin FC, Atlanta United, D.C. United Los Angeles FC, and New York City FC will not lose a player since they each lost someone to Charlotte FC in last year’s expansion draft.
Homegrown players and Generation Adidas graduates were automatically protected from being on the list.
The Expansion Draft is Friday afternoon at 7 p.m. ET. Here is the full list of eligible players:
Charlotte FC
Harrison Afful, Jordy Alcivar, Adam Armour, Cuzman Corujo, Alan Franco, Christian Fuchs, George Marks, Quinn McNeill, Joseph Mora, Yordy Reyna, Koa Santos, Andre Shinyashiki, Pablo Sinsiega, Jan Sobocinski, Adrian Zendejas.
Chicago Fire
Jonathan Bornstein, Kendall Burks, Fabian Herbers, Stanislav Ivanov, Spencer Richey, Boris Sekulic.
FC Cincinnati
Dominique Badji, Tyler Blackett, Geoff Cameron, Allan Cruz, Raymon Gaddis, Yuya Kubo, Evan Louro, Nicholas Markanich, Ronald Matarrita, Junior Moreno, John Nelson, Alvas Powell.
Colorado Rapids
Steven Beitashour, Lucas Esteves, Felipe GutiƩrrez, Clint Irwin, Anthony Markanich, Philip Mayaka, Drew Moor, Collen Warner, Danny Wilson, Gyasi Zardes.
Columbus Crew
Jalil Anibaba, Evan Bush, Derrick Etienne Jr, Marlon Hairston, Erik Hurtado, James Igbekeme, Kevin Molino, Pedro Santos, Brady Scott, Yaw Yeboah.
FC Dallas
Lucas Bartlett, Dominick Hernandez, Franco Jara, Nanu, Facundo Quignon, Joshue Quinonez.
Houston Dynamo
Beto Avila, Mateo Bajamich, Darwin Ceren, Joe Corona, Ian Hoffmann, Sam Junqua, Nico Lemoine, Michael Nelson, Tim Parker, Darwin Quintero, Memo Rodriguez, Thiaguinho, Zarek Valentin, Zeca.
Inter Miami
George Acosta, Jean Corentin, C.J. Dos Santos, Kieran Gibbs, Gonzalo Higuain, Joevin Jones, Damion Lowe, Aime Mabika, Nick Marsman, Harvey Neville, Alejandro Pozuelo, Brek Shea, Victor Ulloa, Indiana Vassilev.
Sporting KC
Roger Espinoza, Andreu Fontas, Nicolas Isimat-Mirin, Kendall McIntosh, Tim Melia, Oriol Rosell, Khiry Shelton, Ben Sweat.
L.A. Galaxy
Daniel Aguirre, Martin Caceres, Douglas Costa, Nick DePuy, Chase Gasper, Carlos Harvey, Jonathan Klinsmann, Sacha Kljestan, Kelvin Leerdam, Farai Mutatu, Richard Sanchez, Victor Vazquez, Jorge Villafana, Eriq Zavaleta.
Minnesota United
Alan Benitez, Abu Danladi, Bakaye Dibassy, Eric Dick, Oniel Fisher, Jonathan Gonzalez, Niko Hansen, Jacori Hayes, Brent Kallman, Nabi Kibunguchy, Justin McMaster, Romain Metanire, Tyler Miller, Callum Montgomery, Tanitoluwa Oluwaseyi, Joseph Rosales, Wil Trapp.
CF Montreal
Zorhan Bassong, Sebastian Breza, Rudy Camacho, Gabriele Corbo, Ahmed Hamdi, Sunusi Ibrahim, Bjorn Johnsen, Logan Ketterer, Jojea Kwizera, Chinonso Offor, Robert Thorkelsson, Victor Wanyama.
Nashville SC
Brian Anunga, Josh Bauer, Teal Bunbury, Roberto Castellanos, Irakoze Donasiyano, Luke Haakenson, Ake Loba, Ahmed Longmire, Dax McCarty, Bryan Meredith, Will Meyer, Eric Miller, Alex Muyl, Elliot Panicco, Rodrigo Pineiro, Taylor Washington.
New England Revolution
Jon Bell, Emmanuel Boateng, Gustavo Bou, A.J. DeLaGarza, Clement Diop, Earl Edwards Jr, Omar Gonzalez, Jacob Jackson, Wilfrid Kaptoum, Ed Kizza, Brad Knighton, Lucas Maciel, Christian Makoun, Ben Reveno, Ryan Spaulding, Ismael Tajouri-Shradi.
New York Red Bulls
Jesus Castellano, Caden Clark, Kyle Duncan, Patryk Klimala, Jake LaCava, Aaron Long, Anthony Marcucci, Ryan Meara, Hassan Ndam, Dylan Nealis, Matt Nocita, Steven Sserwadda.
Orlando City
Tesho Akindele, Wilder Cartagena, Joey DeZart, Nicholas Gioacchini, Adam Grinwis, Jack Lynn, Joao Moutinho, Jake Mulraney, Alexandre Pato, Kyle Smith, Junior Urso.
Philadelphia Union
Abasa Aremeyaw, Alejandro Bedoya, Joe Bendik, Jesus Bueno, Chris Donovan, Gino Portella.
Portland Timbers
David Bingham, Sebastian Blanco, Pablo Bonilla, George Fochiva, Nathan Fogaca, Diego Gutierrez, Marvin Loria, Larrys Mabiala, Zac McGraw, Felipe Mora, Justin Rasmussen, Jose Van Rankin, Justin vom Steeg.
Real Salt Lake
Nick Besler, Scott Caldwell, Maikel Chang, Tomas Gomez, Bret Halsey, Erik Holt, Johan Kappelhof, Jonathan Menendez, Rubio Rubin, Marcelo Silva, Bobby Wood.
San Jose Earthquakes
Oskar Agren, George Asomani, Matt Bersano, Jan Gregus, Siad Haji, Eric Remedi, Shea Salinas, Jack Skahan, Tommy Thompson.
Seattle Sounders
Samuel Adeniran, Will Bruin, Abdoulaye Cissoko, Stefan Cleveland, Jimmy Medranda, Fredy Montero, Jackson Regen, Kelyn Rowe, Andrew Thomas.
Toronto FC
Ifunanyachi Achara, Auro Jr, Alex Bono, Kadin Chung, Doneil Henry, Greg Ranjitsingh, Quentin Westberg.
Vancouver Whitecaps
Janio Bikel, Derek Cornelius, Cody Cropper, Cristian Dajome, David Egbo, Marcus Godinho, Cristian Gutierrez, Florian Jungwirth, Luis Martins, Jake Nerwinski, Evan Newton, Leonard Owusu, Ryan Raposo, Tosaint Ricketts, Russell Teibert.
Nico Giaocchini seems like a no brainer with he being born in Missouri.
So wait – does CITY have to be capitalized? Is this yet another gimmick by MLS? Please tell me there is something legitimate behind this. Like a typo.
If you look on their website they capitalize CITY SC.