MLS Expansion Draft

The Seattle Sounders selected 10 players in the expansion draft that took place Wednesday, choosing one player each from 10 of the 14 MLS teams. The four teams with no players selected were the Colorado Rapids, Chivas USA, D.C. United and FC Dallas.

Each of the 14 teams was allowed to protect 11 players. Seattle's choices will be added to Seattle Sounders FC roster, Sebastien Le Toux, Kasey Keller, Freddie Llungberg and Sanna Nyassi, are already on the roster.

The specific format for the expansion draft is as follows:

• Only one player may be selected from each team. Four of the league's 14 current teams will not have a player selected.

• Teams will be allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation adidas players are automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2008 season are not.

• Teams with 4 or more international players must protect 3 of them. If a team has 3 or fewer international players, then it must protect all but one.

• Any developmental players selected must be moved up to the senior roster for the 2009 season.

Here is the complete list of who the Seattle Sounders picked in the expansion draft and what team they came from:

Nate Jaqua (Houston Dynamo)

Nathan Sturgis (Real Salt Lake)

Jeff Parke (New York Red Bulls)

Jarrod Smith (Toronto FC)

Khano Smith (New England Revolution)

Peter Vagenas (Los Angeles Galaxy)

Tyson Wahl (Kansas City Wizards)

James Riley (San Jose Earthquakes)

Stephen King (Chicago Fire)

Brad Evans (Columbus Crew)