2010 MLS Expansion Draft
General information
Date(s)	November 24, 2010
Overview
Expansion teams	Vancouver Whitecaps FC Portland Timbers
Expansion season	2011
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The 2010 MLS Expansion Draft took place on November 24, 2010, and was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion teams Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Portland Timbers.

Format

Source

• Portland Timbers selected first, Vancouver Whitecaps FC picked second, and the two alternated picks thereafter.
• Existing teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their rosters. Generation Adidas players were automatically protected, though players who graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2010 season were not.
• After each player was selected, his team was allowed to remove one exposed player from their list.
• Any developmental players selected were required to move up to the senior roster for the 2011 season.

Expansion Draft Results

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Previous Team
1	Portland Timbers	Dax McCarty	FC Dallas
2	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Sanna Nyassi	Seattle Sounders FC
3	Portland Timbers	Eric Brunner	Columbus Crew
4	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Atiba Harris	FC Dallas
5	Portland Timbers	Adam Moffat	Columbus Crew
6	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Nathan Sturgis	Seattle Sounders FC
7	Portland Timbers	Anthony Wallace	Colorado Rapids
8	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Shea Salinas	Philadelphia Union
9	Portland Timbers	David Horst	Real Salt Lake
10	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Alan Gordon	Chivas USA
11	Portland Timbers	Robbie Findley	Real Salt Lake
12	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	O'Brian White	Toronto FC
13	Portland Timbers	Peter Lowry	Chicago Fire
14	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Alejandro Moreno	Philadelphia Union
15	Portland Timbers	Jonathan Bornstein	Chivas USA
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Joe Cannon	San Jose Earthquakes
17	Portland Timbers	Jordan Graye	D.C. United
18	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Jonathan Leathers	Sporting Kansas City
19	Portland Timbers	Arturo Alvarez	San Jose Earthquakes
20	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	John Thorrington	Chicago Fire

Team-by-team breakdown

Source

Chicago Fire

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Nery Castillo	Mike Banner	Corben Bone
Andrew Dykstra	Calen Carr	Sean Johnson
Collins John	Wilman Conde, Jr.	Victor Pineda
Krzysztof Król	Baggio Husidić
Freddie Ljungberg	Steven Kinney
Peter Lowry	Patrick Nyarko
Dasan Robinson	Marco Pappa
John Thorrington	Logan Pause
Deris Umanzor	Bratislav Ristić
	Gonzalo Segares
	Kwame Watson-Siriboe

Chivas USA

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Carlos Borja	Justin Braun	Bryan de la Fuente
Jonathan Bornstein	Yamith Cuesta	Blair Gavin
Chukwudi Chijindu	Darío Delgado	César Zamora
Rodolfo Espinoza	Jorge Flores
Maykel Galindo	Ante Jazić
Alan Gordon	Michael Lahoud
Dan Kennedy	Paulo Nagamura
Eduardo Lillingston	Zach Thornton
Giancarlo Maldonado	Michael Umaña
Gerson Mayen	Ben Zemanski
Jesús Padilla	Sal Zizzo
Osael Romero
Marcelo Saragosa
Mariano Trujillo
Alex Zotincă

Colorado Rapids

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Andre Akpan	Conor Casey	Davy Armstrong
Quincy Amarikwa	Omar Cummings
Steward Ceus	Macoumba Kandji
Ian Joyce	Kosuke Kimura
Ross LaBauex	Jeff Larentowicz
Claudio López	Pablo Mastroeni
Ciaran O'Brien	Drew Moor
Scott Palguta	Brian Mullan
Ross Schunk	Matt Pickens
Wells Thompson	Jamie Smith
Peter Vagenas	Marvell Wynne
Anthony Wallace

Columbus Crew

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Guillermo Barros Schelotto	Emmanuel Ekpo	Dilly Duka
Eric Brunner	Shaun Francis
Kevin Burns	Eddie Gaven
Jason Garey	William Hesmer
Léandre Griffit	Andy Iro
Andy Gruenebaum	Steven Lenhart
Frankie Hejduk	Chad Marshall
Adam Moffat	Andrés Mendoza
Duncan Oughton	Danny O'Rourke
Gino Padula	Emilio Rentería
Josh Williams	Robbie Rogers

D.C. United

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Danny Allsopp	Branko Bošković	Bill Hamid
Brandon Barklage	Marc Burch	Andy Najar
Adam Cristman	Junior Carreiro	Conor Shanosky
Jordan Graye	Dejan Jakovic
Pablo Hernández	Julius James
Devon McTavish	Stephen King
Jaime Moreno	Santino Quaranta
Kurt Morsink	Chris Pontius
Juan Manuel Peña	Clyde Simms
Troy Perkins	Rodney Wallace
Barry Rice	Jed Zayner
Carlos Varela

FC Dallas

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Eric Avila	Eric Alexander	Moises Hernandez
Jeff Cunningham	Jair Benítez	Josh Lambo
Kyle Davies	Marvin Chávez	Bryan Leyva
Edson Edward	David Ferreira	Rubén Luna
Bruno Guarda	Kevin Hartman	Peri Marošević
Atiba Harris	Ugo Ihemelu	Victor Ulloa
Daniel Hernández	Jackson	Andrew Wiedeman
Dax McCarty	George John
Milton Rodríguez	Zach Loyd
Darío Sala	Heath Pearce
Jason Yeisley	Brek Shea

Houston Dynamo

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Samuel Appiah	Bobby Boswell	Danny Cruz
Corey Ashe	Geoff Cameron	Tyler Deric
Ryan Cochrane	Mike Chabala	Francisco Navas
Richard Mulrooney	Brian Ching
Joseph Ngwenya	Colin Clark
Anthony Obodai	Brad Davis
Dominic Oduro	André Hainault
Pat Onstad	Tally Hall
Eddie Robinson	Lovel Palmer
	Adrian Serioux
	Cam Weaver

Los Angeles Galaxy

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Gregg Berhalter	David Beckham	Tristan Bowen
Alex Cazumba	Chris Birchall
Bryan Jordan	Edson Buddle
Jovan Kirovski	A. J. DeLaGarza
Dema Kovalenko	Landon Donovan
Leonardo	Todd Dunivant
Mike Magee	Sean Franklin
Yohance Marshall	Omar Gonzalez
Brian Perk	Juninho
Josh Saunders	Donovan Ricketts
	Michael Stephens

New England Revolution

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Zak Boggs	Kevin Alston	Diego Fagúndez
Preston Burpo	Darrius Barnes
Nico Colaluca	Shalrie Joseph
Kheli Dube	Kenny Mansally
Cory Gibbs	Sainey Nyassi
Jason Griffiths	Emmanuel Osei
Roberto Linck	Marko Perović
Tim Murray	Matt Reis
Pat Phelan	Zack Schilawski
Seth Sinovic	Bobby Shuttleworth
Khano Smith	Chris Tierney
Ilija Stolica

New York Red Bulls

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Juan Pablo Ángel	Chris Albright	Juan Agudelo
Andrew Boyens	Mehdi Ballouchy	Giorgi Chirgadze
Conor Chinn	Danleigh Borman	Tony Tchani
Austin da Luz	Bouna Coundoul
Irving Garcia	Thierry Henry
Salou Ibrahim	Joel Lindpere
Brian Nielsen	Rafael Márquez
Carl Robinson	Carlos Mendes
Luke Sassano	Roy Miller
Greg Sutton	Tim Ream
Carey Talley	Dane Richards
Siniša Ubiparipović

Philadelphia Union

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Cristian Arrieta	Danny Califf	Jack McInerney
Eduardo Coudet	Brian Carroll	Danny Mwanga
Fred	Juan Diego González	Amobi Okugo
Andrew Jacobson	Jordan Harvey
Brad Knighton	Sébastien Le Toux
Stefani Miglioranzi	Justin Mapp
Alejandro Moreno	Kyle Nakazawa
J. T. Noone	Michael Orozco Fiscal
Shea Salinas	Toni Ståhl
Chris Seitz	Roger Torres
Nick Zimmerman	Sheanon Williams

Real Salt Lake

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Jean Alexandre	Paulo Araujo Jr.	Luis Gil
Pablo Campos	Kyle Beckerman
Robbie Findley	Tony Beltran
Nelson González	Nat Borchers
Ned Grabavoy	Fabián Espíndola
David Horst	Will Johnson
Rauwshan McKenzie	Javier Morales
Tim Melia	Jámison Olave
Alex Nimo	Nick Rimando
Robbie Russell	Álvaro Saborío
Kyle Reynish	Chris Wingert
Chris Schuler
Collen Warner
Andy Williams

San Jose Earthquakes

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Arturo Alvarez	Jon Busch	Ike Opara
Steven Beitashour	Bobby Convey
Bobby Burling	Sam Cronin
Joe Cannon	Joey Gjertsen
Ramiro Corrales	Jason Hernandez
Eduardo	Omar Jasseh
Geovanni	Ryan Johnson
Cornell Glen	Brandon McDonald
Chris Leitch	Scott Sealy
André Luiz	Khari Stephenson
Justin Morrow	Chris Wondolowski
Brad Ring
Tim Ward

Seattle Sounders FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Julien Baudet	Osvaldo Alonso
Terry Boss	Brad Evans
Danny Earls	Michael Fucito
David Estrada	Álvaro Fernández
Leonardo González	Jhon Kennedy Hurtado
Taylor Graham	Nate Jaqua
Patrick Ianni	Kasey Keller
Roger Levesque	Fredy Montero
Tyrone Marshall	Jeff Parke
Miguel Montaño	James Riley
Blaise Nkufo	Steve Zakuani
Pat Noonan
Sanna Nyassi
Zach Scott
Mike Seamon
Nathan Sturgis
Tyson Wahl

Sporting Kansas City

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Olukorede Aiyegbusi	Davy Arnaud	Teal Bunbury
Jamar Beasley	Stéphane Auvray	Jon Kempin
Sunil Chhetri	Matt Besler
Jimmy Conrad	Roger Espinoza
Birahim Diop	Michael Harrington
Zoltán Hercegfalvi	Jack Jewsbury
Aaron Hohlbein	Kei Kamara
Nikos Kounenakis	Jimmy Nielsen
Eric Kronberg	Craig Rocastle
Jonathan Leathers	Ryan Smith
Chance Myers	Graham Zusi
Shavar Thomas
Josh Wolff

Toronto FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Chad Barrett	Nana Attakora	Doneil Henry
Julian de Guzman	Adrian Cann	Nicholas Lindsay
Gabe Gala	Jon Conway
Nick Garcia	Dwayne De Rosario
Raivis Hščanovičs	Stefan Frei
Fuad Ibrahim	Dan Gargan
Miloš Kočić	Emmanuel Gómez
Mista	Ty Harden
Joseph Nane	Nick LaBrocca
Amadou Sanyang	Jacob Peterson
Martin Šarić	Maicon Santos
Maxim Usanov
O'Brian White