New England Revolution
Part 1: Who is the Rookie of the Year?
The 2009 draft feels like years ago, where a young man born and raised in London, England turned down professional offers from his home land just to test his fate and enter the MLS Draft. On the other end of the spectrum was Tampa native Ben Jata living out him and his father’s dream of being drafted into the MLS when the Chicago Fire selected him 58th overall. The storylines could not have been any better for the MLS marketing team, but the stories were not needed when the skill of the players overshadowed the stories.
Playoff Preview
It’s the time of the year where writers love to write previews and give their predictions for the playoffs. Then at the end of the month, those same writers look like complete fools and lose their credibility, only to spend the whole year to build it back up just to do it again.
Who am I to break tradition? Lets do this!
2008 Draft: The Draft is coming
Archived by Sean Keay from December 13, 2007
This Wednesday the MLS offered its invitations to the annual winter draft combine. Every year, the players are divided into 4 teams and play a series of games over a weekend. A lucky 54 NCAA Seniors were invited to this event. So, while these will be the bulk of the players in this year’s draft, nothing in the MLS is ever cut and dry. There is also something called a Generation Adidas contract, where a kid who isn’t in his senior year of college can make a jump and try to get in the MLS. These players are typically the best and most promising players in the draft. Those names have not been announced yet but there are typically seven or eight Generation Adidas players in each draft.
The MLS Draft '08: The Great Red Hope
Archived by Sean Keay from December 26, 2007
The MLS Draft Combine is only weeks away, so I figured that I should profile the only Canadian invited to the camp; Matthew Britner. I went and interviewed the man from Halifax, Nova Scotia. If you don’t know much about the young man, he has played as a defender for Brown University for the last four years, and played for the Canadian national team at the U20 level. This year, Britner was awarded the Ivy League player of the year.
