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.

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.

On the eve of the 2007 MLS Superdraft, Indianapolis, Indiana was abuzz with excitement of a promising future. Unlike most years, however, this buzz had nothing to do with the young talent about the enter the league. The buzz was about the pending arrival of David Beckham to the Los Angeles Galaxy.

The future of the league would fly under the radar this year with only the diehards closely watching, trying to find out who the next Freddy Adu, Clint Dempsey or Brian McBride would be. Since they did not get the attention they deserve, I am going to give them a little extra love today, as I recap the 2007 MLS Superdraft.