2002 MLS SuperDraft

2002 MLS SuperDraft
2002 MLS SuperDraft
General information
Sport	Soccer
Date(s)	January 11–February 10, 2002
Location	Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Overview
	70 total selections in 6 rounds
Teams	10
Merging teams	Miami Fusion ; Tampa Bay Mutiny ; (both folded after 2001 season)
First selection	Chris Gbandi ; Dallas Burn
	← 2001 2003 →

The 2002 Major League Soccer SuperDraft was held on February 10, 2002 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

One month earlier, MLS had contracted two clubs: Tampa Bay Mutiny and Miami Fusion. In conjunction with the contraction, the league conducted both an allocation draft and a dispersal draft in which the top 2002 SuperDraft picks of Tampa Bay and Miami, as well as players from those clubs, were made available to remaining MLS clubs.

Allocation draft

MLS distributed the players of the Miami Fusion and the Tampa Bay Mutiny to the rest of the league via an allocation draft that took place on January 11, 2002, where teams with excess allocations were allowed to select from their players; the participants and the selection order for the draft were announced three days before the draft was conducted.^[1]

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Position	Previous Team
1	Colorado Rapids	Pablo Mastroeni	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
2	New England Revolution	Mamadou Diallo	Forward	Tampa Bay Mutiny
3	D.C. United	Nick Rimando	Goalkeeper	Miami Fusion
4	MetroStars^{[Trade 1]}	Diego Serna	Forward	Miami Fusion
5	New England Revolution	Carlos Llamosa	Defender	Miami Fusion
6	New England Revolution	Steve Ralston	Midfielder	Tampa Bay Mutiny
7	Dallas Burn	#1 Pick, 2002 MLS SuperDraft	--	Tampa Bay Mutiny
8	San Jose Earthquakes^{[AD Trade 1]}	Devin Barclay	Forward	Tampa Bay Mutiny
9	Los Angeles Galaxy^{[AD Trade 2]}	Tyrone Marshall	Midfielder	Miami Fusion

Trades

Dispersal draft

Players who were not selected in the allocation draft were automatically assigned to the dispersal draft, which was held hours after the allocation draft occurred.

Round 1

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Position	Previous Team
1	Colorado Rapids	Chris Henderson	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
2	New England Revolution	Jim Rooney	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
3	D.C. United	Lazo Alavanja	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
4	Kansas City Wizards	Eric Quill	Midfielder	Tampa Bay Mutiny
5	Dallas Burn	Josh Keller	Midfielder	Tampa Bay Mutiny
6	MetroStars	#3 pick, 2002 MLS SuperDraft	--	Tampa Bay Mutiny
7	Columbus Crew	Brian Dunseth	Defender	Miami Fusion
8	Chicago Fire	#10 pick, 2002 MLS SuperDraft	--	Miami Fusion
9	Columbus Crew^{[D1 trade 1]}	Eric Denton	Defender	Tampa Bay Mutiny
10	San Jose Earthquakes	PASS	--	--

Trades

Round 2

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Position	Previous Team
11	Colorado Rapids	Kyle Beckerman	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
12	New England Revolution	Alex Pineda Chacon	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
13	D.C. United	PASS	--	--
14	Kansas City Wizards	Preki	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
15	Dallas Burn	Jeff Cassar	Goalkeeper	Miami Fusion
16	MetroStars	PASS	--	--
17	Columbus Crew	PASS	--	--
18	Chicago Fire	PASS	--	--
19	Los Angeles Galaxy	PASS	--	--
20	San Jose Earthquakes	PASS	--	--

Round 3

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Position	Previous Team
21	Colorado Rapids	PASS	--	--
22	New England Revolution	Shaker Asad	Midfielder	Miami Fusion
23	D.C. United	PASS	--	--
24	Kansas City Wizards	PASS	--	--
25	Dallas Burn	PASS	--	--
26	MetroStars	PASS	--	--
27	Columbus Crew	PASS	--	--
28	Chicago Fire	PASS	--	--
29	Los Angeles Galaxy	PASS	--	--
30	San Jose Earthquakes	PASS	--	--

SuperDraft

Key

*	Denotes a player contracted under the Project-40 program
^	Denotes player who has been selected to an MLS All-Star Game
§	Denotes a player who won the MLS Rookie of the Year
†	Denotes player who has been selected for an MLS Best XI team
~	Denotes a player who won the MLS MVP

Round 1

Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	Affiliation
1	Dallas Burn^{[R1 trade 1]}	Chris Gbandi	D	University of Connecticut
2	New England Revolution^{[R1 trade 2]}	Taylor Twellman^†~	F	1860 Munich
3	MetroStars^{[R1 trade 3]}	Brad Davis*^†	M	St. Louis University (P-40)
4	D.C. United	Justin Mapp*^†	M	Project-40
5	Chicago Fire^{[R1 trade 4]}	Kelly Gray*	M	University of Portland (P-40)
6	San Jose Earthquakes^{[R1 trade 5]}	Luchi Gonzalez	F	Southern Methodist University
7	MetroStars	Mansour Ndiaye	M	University of Connecticut
8	Columbus Crew	Kyle Martino*^§	M	University of Virginia (P-40)
9	Dallas Burn^{[R1 trade 6]}	Carl Bussey	D	Southern Methodist University
10	Chicago Fire^{[R1 trade 7]}	Billy Sleeth	D	University of Washington
11	D.C. United^{[R1 trade 8]}	Daouda Kanté	D	Florida International University
12	Dallas Burn^{[R1 trade 9]}	Lee Morrison	D	Stanford University

Trades

Round 2

Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	Affiliation
13	Los Angeles Galaxy^{[R2 trade 1]}	Hemir Neibles	M	Brooklyn Knights
14	New England Revolution^{[R2 trade 2]}	Shalrie Joseph^†	M	St. John's University
15	Dallas Burn^{[R2 trade 3]}	Jordan Stone*	M	Project-40
16	Colorado Rapids^{[R2 trade 4]}	Danny Jackson	D	University of North Carolina
17	Chicago Fire^{[R2 trade 5]}	Craig Capano*	M	Project-40
18	Dallas Burn	Matt Behncke	D	Princeton University
19	Colorado Rapids^{[R2 trade 6]}	Jeff Stewart	D	Santa Clara University
20	Columbus Crew	Jeff Matteo	M	St. John's University
21	New England Revolution^{[R2 trade 7]}	Ian Fuller	F	Clemson University
22	Los Angeles Galaxy^{[R2 trade 8]}	Bryheem Hancock	G	University of Connecticut
23	Columbus Crew^{[R2 trade 9]}	Jon Busch†	G	Hershey Wildcats
24	D.C. United^{[R2 trade 10]}	Mike McGinty	G	Richmond Kickers
25	Los Angeles Galaxy^{[R2 trade 11]}	Gavin Glinton	F	Bradley University

Trades

Round 3

Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	Affiliation
26	Chicago Fire^{[R3 trade 1]}	Steve Totten	M	University of Virginia
27	Los Angeles Galaxy^{[R3 trade 2]}	Alejandro Moreno	F	UNC-Greensboro
28	Colorado Rapids^{[R3 trade 3]}	Bryn Ritchie	D	University of Washington
29	Colorado Rapids^{[R3 trade 4]}	Daniel Alvarez	M	Furman University
30	MetroStars^{[R3 trade 5]}	Sam Forko	D	University of Connecticut
31	D.C. United	Mohammed Fahim	F	Southern Methodist University
32	Kansas City Wizards	O'Neil Peart	F	Long Island Rough Riders
33	San Jose Earthquakes^{[R3 trade 6]}	Chris Roner	M	University of California
34	Colorado Rapids^{[R3 trade 7]}	Matt Moses	M	Stanford University
35	Columbus Crew	John Barry Nusum	F	Furman University
36	Chicago Fire	Dipsy Selolwane	F	St. Louis University
37	Kansas City Wizards^{[R3 trade 8]}	Chris Brunt	D	Southwest Missouri State
38	Los Angeles Galaxy^{[R3 trade 9]}	Cory Gibbs^	D	Brown University
39	San Jose Earthquakes	Kevin Sakuda	D	Duke University

Trades

Round 4

Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	Affiliation
40	D.C. United^{[R4 trade 1]}	Dennis Ludwig	F	Rutgers University
41	New England Revolution	Derek Potteiger	M	Penn State
42	D.C. United	Bobby Brennan	D	American University
43	Kansas City Wizards	Dominic DaPra	F	University of Wisconsin–Madison
44	Dallas Burn^{[R4 trade 2]}	Adauto Neto	M	University of Mobile
45	New England Revolution^{[R4 trade 3]}	Marshall Leonard	D	University of Virginia
46	Chicago Fire	Mike Nugent	F	Princeton University
47	Columbus Crew^{[R4 trade 4]}	Chris Leitch	D	University of North Carolina
48	Los Angeles Galaxy	Noah Delgado	M	Fresno State
49	San Jose Earthquakes	Erik Ozimek	M	Davidson College

Trades

Round 5

Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	Affiliation
50	Kansas City Wizards^{[R5 trade 1]}	Davy Arnaud^	F	West Texas A&M University
51	Columbus Crew^{[R5 trade 2]}	Christof Lindenmayer	F	Loyola College in Maryland
52	New England Revolution	PASS
53	D.C. United	PASS
54	Dallas Burn^{[R5 trade 3]}	Jeremie Piette	M	West Texas A&M University
55	Dallas Burn	Ricardo Villar	M	Penn State
56	MetroStars	Mario Gomez	M	North Jersey Imperials (PDL)
57	Kansas City Wizards^{[R5 trade 4]}	Brian Lavin	D	Yale University
58	New England Revolution^{[R5 trade 5]}	PASS
59	Los Angeles Galaxy	Lawrence Smalls	M	UC Irvine
60	San Jose Earthquakes	Aaron Biddle	D	Stanford University

Trades

Round 6

Pick #	MLS team	Player	Position	Affiliation
61	Colorado Rapids	Matt Harrell	F	University of Denver
62	New England Revolution	PASS
63	D.C. United	PASS
64	Kansas City Wizards	Dane Erickson	D	Davidson College
65	Kansas City Wizards^{[R6 trade 1]}	Mark Spears	G	William Carey College
66	MetroStars	Jeff Moore	M	Richard Stockton College
67	Columbus Crew	Scott Leber	D	Stanford University
68	MetroStars^{[R6 trade 2]}	Leo Krupnik	D	UC Berkeley
69	Los Angeles Galaxy	Ishmael Mintah	M	Bradley University
70	San Jose Earthquakes	Lars Lyssand	M	San Jose State

Trades

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2002 MLS SuperDraft

Contents

Allocation draft

Trades

Dispersal draft

Round 1

Trades

Round 2

Round 3

SuperDraft

Round 1

Trades

Round 2

Trades

Round 3

Trades

Round 4

Trades

Round 5

Trades

Round 6

Trades

References