The best day of the year for Major League Soccer fans is here. The day every team has some hope and every team's fans can dream of the possibilities.
SBI will be providing in-depth coverage of the 2011 MLS Draft, with live commentary, interviews, articles and video interviews. You can also find plenty of MLS Draft coverage over at FoxSoccer.com.
Please feel free to share your draft day thoughts in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's live commentary is after the jump):
finally !!!! Jalil Anibaba will go #3 thats my suprise of the day
Best day of the year?
Give me a day where they’re actually playing (like opening day/weekend) over a bunch of guys who will end up being Chance Myers.
YES. how the heck does Perry Kitchen fall to #3? Does DC take him or do they pass up for offense? Knowing their recent moves, they will pass.
I love Drafts!
Chea boys.
Please, pass on Sarkodie, Chivas.
Loving that this is on ESPN.
It seems like the offseason was dragging by until this week.
Next up:
Please, pass on Sarkodie, Philly.
I’m guessing Sarkodie will get past NE with Alston…thinking Houston passes on him too in favor of another position.
Wildcard: Vancouver @ 8th pick.
Hoping Sarkodie falls to Chicago and they actually pull the trigger. Not sold on Soares CB pick. Seems like an average defender.
He has to go next, guy had a good combine.
I took a beat down from a lot of people including Ives..but I called it Omar Salgado the #1 pick.
You always take the best player. The same logic applied to me calling Najar ROY.
+ 100
LOL.
Epic failure of a prediction.
Only consolation for my club Chicago missing out on Sarkodie, is my passion for the national team.
Sarkodie is going to a great manager and developer of talent. With Dom, who I think should be our next national team manager, will coach him up.
Ah well, Will Bruin now? Anibabe perhaps?
Terrible pick. TERRIBLE. No need to draft him #1. Could have traded down, still gotten him, and gotten something else for the #1 pick. Probably could have had him at #8. LOL @ Vancouver. Off to an awful start.
Song potential: (Hava Nagilla Hava)
Aaaaaannnnnaaaa – niiiiii – bbbaaaaaaabbbaaaaa (repeat)
Doesn’t that translate to “Let’s rejoice” anyway?
Happy Chicago fan, seems like a good pick.
Agree. Who knows how it will work out, but we have to be really glad with how the draft has worked for us.
you won’t saying that when he’s scoring goals like a boss.
Ives. your mock draft and commentary sucks balls. Maybe you should find a new hobby?
Wondering where Salgado goes on loan until he’s 18 and is allowed to officially “transfer” to Vancouver, due to a FIFA rule.
Dynamo looking like they’re leading the way on value+needs and earning “Best Draft” non-award, award.
Mel Kiper would be singing their praises, if he knew who the Houston Dynamo was, I’d imagine.
Booyah Houston, two GA signings. Looks like they went for prospects, and are going to fill the centerback and central midfield positions from some other source.
Sounders trade 11th pick to Portland for allocation money, and Portland trades it to Houston for allocation money. I wish they’d tell us how much money was involved
hoping for Tetteh for nyrb
MLS proving to be the craziest draft. Loving the way all the reporters say “I think they’re going this way” then the team goes with someone out of left field and the reporters are very tongue in cheek with “of course”.
Like trying to predict the lottery, isn’t it? It’s been fun though.
Grasshopper…when Lebron James was drafted first Cleveland did not trade down they took him because he was the best player. Not saying Omar is Lebron, but what I’m trying to show you is that when a player is better than the rest you take that player. Had they passed he would have gone second. This is a weak draft with really only one potentially great player. Omar Salagdo
tee hee holes.
Your analysis is downright laughable. Seriously. Laughable.
His insight is far better than yours. Perhaps you should just crawl in a hole and die.
Kenny cooper is going to the Portland Timbers
We mock that which we do not understand
agreed
So much for watching the draft on the MLS Web site.
They suck
-1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Tool.
MLS feed is up now. Can hear techs bitching at each other. Can’t hear over music. “sigh”.
Have you lost your baseball?
yeah well i thought teams would be jumping to get him, he had a great combine
Think that the rule won’t apply since his contract is with the league.
Salgado with a pretty composed interview after being picked 1st. Way to comeback from that shocker interview with Ives
RBNY has added alot of attention to themselves with some pretty well known figures on their roster, lets see if it adds up to championships.
Is that you Seft Blatter?
Whereas your contribution is…?
The SBI video interview was the practice he needed to become a slick public speaker!
My contribution was previous listed. Pointing out that the mock draft and supplemental commentary was/is laughable at best. If you don’t agree with it, that’s fine, but it’s the case. You’ll notice I didn’t stoop to the level of calling Ives a tool or awarding him -1,000,000,000,000 or whatever that means. But best of luck wasting your time with this nonsense.
You put too much emphasis on how someone plays over a few days over how they play over a college career.
I have tried to ask this question numerous times on the online chat but it never shows up.
Anyone talking about Steven beattie forward from NKU division II Player of the year?
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I’ll LISTEN to the argument that Salgado “has the most potential.” I might not agree with you.
You saying he is the best player in the draft is way off. Lebron was a given All-Star when he came out. It was not debateable. Stardom in soccer is much harder to predict.
Hahaha nice. I couldn’t believe the first round Houston had.
every team in the MLS has hope every day. if you finish 5th-8th in the league you are more than likely going to win the cup. just sayin’.
In September at the earliest? He’s not going to play for Vancouver until then. That said, they have a decent developmental academy, in terms of US MNT talent, he’s probably going to do well there.
It does, its been confirmed every step along the way. They took a flier on a guy they want to develop
What does your retardation have to do with anything?
They didn’t even update their picks until many minutes afterward. Unprofessional presentation all around by ESPN and MLS. Twellman was a good player, but sounds like a dufus on camera (even next to Lalas). There have to be better voices for soccer in this country!
Live broadcasting here would have been better. The Live Blogging didn’t seem to work.
+1
OK, thanks for the correction. My bad.
Guess I’ve been too busy working to follow this. Time to get back to web surfing on the company dime…