2006 MLS expansion draft

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2006 MLS Expansion Draft
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Date(s)November 17, 2006
Overview
Expansion team Toronto FC
Expansion season 2007
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The 2006 MLS Expansion Draft, held on November 17, 2006 was a special draft for MLS expansion team Toronto FC. Toronto FC selected 10 players from a pool of players from current MLS clubs.

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Format

Expansion Draft

PickPlayerPositionPrevious Team
1 Paulo Nagamura M Los Angeles Galaxy
2 Danny O'Rourke M New York Red Bulls
3 José Cancela F New England Revolution
4 Adrian Serioux M Houston Dynamo
5 Nate Jaqua F Chicago Fire
6 Rod Dyachenko M D.C. United
7 Jason Kreis F Real Salt Lake
8 Tim Regan D Chivas USA
9 Ritchie Kotschau D Columbus Crew
10 Will Hesmer GK Kansas City Wizards

Following the draft, RSL traded a partial allocation (est. at US$125,000) to Toronto for Jason Kreis. Hesmer and O'Rourke were traded to Columbus for another allocation. Regan was traded to Red Bulls for forward Edson Buddle. Serioux was traded, along with Toronto's 2nd round 2007 MLS Superdraft pick to Dallas for midfielder Ronnie O'Brien. Nate Jaqua was traded to the Los Angeles Galaxy for a partial allocation. Dyachenko was later returned to D.C. for a future draft pick, Kotschau was released, and Cancela was later traded to the Colorado Rapids. Part way through the season Nagamura was later traded to Chivas USA for a 1st round 2008 MLS SuperDraft pick. This left no players from the expansion draft on the TFC roster.

Team-by Team breakdown

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Chicago Fire

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Pascal Bedrossian Chris Armas Chad Barrett
CJ Brown Jim Curtin
Craig Capano Iván Guerrero
Calen Carr Andy Herron
Jeff Curtin Justin Mapp
Floyd Franks Logan Pause
Leonard Griffin Matt Pickens
Diego Gutierrez Dasan Robinson
Nate Jaqua Chris Rolfe
Ryan Johnson Gonzalo Segares
David Mahoney Thiago
Jared Montz
Brian Plotkin
Jordan Russolillo
Adam Ruud
Tony Sanneh
Zach Thornton
John Thorrington
Idris Ughiovhe

Chivas USA

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Esteban Arias Jonathan Bornstein
Carlos Borja Juan Pablo García
Preston Burpo Brad Guzan
Rene Corona Jason Hernandez
Johnny García Sacha Kljestan
Drew Helm Jesse Marsch
Carlos Llamosa Francisco Mendoza
Rodrigo Lopez Francisco Palencia
Jesús Morales Ante Razov
Mike Muñoz Claudio Suárez
John O'Brien Lawson Vaughn
Orlando Perez
Tim Regan
Eder Robles
Estuardo Sanchez
Matt Taylor
Brent Whitfield

Colorado Rapids

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Colin Clark Kyle Beckerman Jacob Peterson
Matt Crawford Joe Cannon
Eric Denton Terry Cooke
Dan Gargan Bouna Coundoul
Luchi Gonzalez Hunter Freeman
Sasha Gotsmanov Nicolás Hernández
Jordan Harvey Aitor Karanka
Matt Jordan Thiago Martins
Stephen Keel Pablo Mastroeni
Aaron King Daniel Wasson
Jovan Kirovski Chris Wingert
Clint Mathis
Alain Nkong
Fabrice Noel
Mike Petke
Melvin Tarley

Columbus Crew

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Ivan Becerra Jason Garey Kei Kamara
Marc Burch Eddie Gaven Danny Szetela
Jon Busch Marcos González Tim Ward
Knox Cameron Ned Grabavoy Jed Zayner
Ryan Coiner Andy Gruenebaum
Bill Gaudette Frankie Hejduk
Ezra Hendrickson Chad Marshall
Ritchie Kotschau Joseph Ngwenya
Chris Leitch Duncan Oughton
Brandon Moss Jacob Thomas
Noah Palmer Ricardo Virtuoso
Rusty Pierce
José Retiz
Sebastian Rozental
Eric Vasquez
Jonny Walker

D.C. United

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Jeff Carroll Freddy Adu
Stephen deRoux Bobby Boswell
Matías Donnet Brian Carroll
Rod Dyachenko Facundo Erpen
Ryan McIntosh Alecko Eskandarian
Devon McTavish Christian Gomez
Domenic Mediate Joshua Gros
Andy Metcalf Jaime Moreno
Justin Moose Bryan Namoff
Matt Nickell Ben Olsen
Brandon Prideaux Troy Perkins
Nick Rimando
Clyde Simms
Robert Ssejjemba
David Stokes
Jamil Walker
John Wilson

FC Dallas

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Ray Burse Arturo Alvarez Dax McCarty
Jeff Cassar Kenny Cooper Blake Wagner
Michael Dello-Russo Shaka Hislop
Chris Gbandi Drew Moor
Clarence Goodson Richard Mulrooney
Roberto Mina Ramón Núñez
Justin Moore Ronnie O'Brien
Dominic Oduro Carlos Ruiz
Aaron Pitchkolan Dario Sala
Bobby Rhine Marcelo Saragosa
Alex Smith Abe Thompson
Simo Valakari
Greg Vanney
David Wagenfuhr
Alex Yi

Houston Dynamo

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Chris Aloisi Wade Barrett Patrick Ianni
Mike Chabala Brian Ching
Kevin Goldthwaite Ricardo Clark
Kelly Gray Ryan Cochrane
Stuart Holden Paul Dalglish
Martin Hutton Brad Davis
Aaron Lanes Dwayne De Rosario
Mpho Moloi Alejandro Moreno
Julian Nash Brian Mullan
Adrian Serioux Pat Onstad
Marcus Storey Eddie Robinson
Craig Waibel
Zach Wells
Chris Wondolowski

Kansas City Wizards

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Matt Groenwald Davy Arnaud Will John
Will Hesmer Jose Burciaga Jr. Yura Movsisyan
Eric Kronberg Jimmy Conrad Ryan Pore
Ryan McMahen Nick Garcia
Bo Oshoniyi Jack Jewsbury
Sergei Raad Eddie Johnson
Ryan Raybould Scott Sealy
Brian Roberts Shavar Thomas
Stephen Shirley Sasha Victorine
Dave van den Bergh Josh Wolff
Tyson Wahl Kerry Zavagnin
Lance Watson
Alex Zotinca

Los Angeles Galaxy

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Michael Enfield Chris Albright Steve Cronin
Josh Gardner Landon Donovan Quavas Kirk
Gavin Glinton Cornell Glen Nathan Sturgis
Guillermo Gonzalez Herculez Gomez
Alan Gordon Kevin Hartman
Josh Hansen Ugo Ihemelu
Cobi Jones Ante Jazic
Kyle Martino Tyrone Marshall
Stefani Miglioranzi Santino Quaranta
Paulo Nagamura Troy Roberts
Mike Randolph Peter Vagenas
Josh Saunders
Kyle Veris

New England Revolution

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José Manuel Abundis Clint Dempsey Willie Sims
Kyle Brown Andy Dorman
José Cancela Jay Heaps
Joe Franchino Shalrie Joseph
Jani Galik Tony Lochhead
Miguel Gonzalez Pat Noonan
Pat Haggerty Michael Parkhurst
Daniel Hernández Steve Ralston
Avery John Matt Reis
Jeff Larentowicz Khano Smith
Marshall Leonard Taylor Twellman
Arsene Oka
James Riley
T.J. Tomasso
Doug Warren
Adam Williamson
Danny Wynn

New York Red Bulls

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Michael Behonick Jon Conway Josmer Altidore
Edson Buddle Todd Dunivant David Arvizu
Blake Camp Amado Guevara
Peter Canero Elie Ikangu
Taylor Graham Dema Kovalenko
Chris Henderson Mike Magee
Steve Jolley Carlos Mendes
Shawn Kuykendall Jeff Parke
Jerrod Laventure Markus Schopp
Mark Lisi Seth Stammler
Tony Meola Marvell Wynne
Danny O'Rourke
Joseph Vide
John Wolyniec

Real Salt Lake

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Adam Acosta Mehdi Ballouchy Nikolas Besagno
Nelson Akwari Jeff Cunningham Christian Jimenez
Jacob Besagno Willis Forko Jamie Watson
Paul Broome Atiba Harris
Chris Brown Chris Klein
Kenny Cutler Cameron Knowles
Scott Garlick Eddie Pope
Brian Gil Jafet Soto
Chase Harrison Jack Stewart
Duke Hashimoto Carey Talley
Jason Kreis Daniel Torres
Jay Nolly
Kevin Novak
Douglas Sequeira
Seth Trembly
Andy Williams
Joey Worthen

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