Immediately following the Montreal Impact's expansion draft, MLS conducted its waiver draft, and only one selection was made.
The Philadelphia Union used their spot in the order to nab former Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Nizar Khalfan. An energetic, athletic winger, the Tanzanian international scored a goal and assisted on four others this past season with Vancouver.
Khalfan had been waived earlier in the day. The other players waived on Wednesday (including New York's John Rooney) that are now free to sign anywhere after not being selected were:
COLUMBUS
Santiago Prim, Dejan Rusmir
DALLAS
Edson Edward
HOUSTON
Francisco Navas Cobo, Evan Newton
NEW YORK
Alex Horwath, Mychel Jones, Tyler Lassiter, Marcos Paullo, John Rooney, Theodore Schneider
NEW ENGLAND
Alan Koger, Otto Loewy, Andrew Sousa
PHILADELPHIA
Juan Diego Gonzalez, Thorne Holder
SALT LAKE
Tim Melia
SPORTING KANSAS CITY
Jeferson (a Designated Player who was on loan from Vasco de Gama through the 2011 season), Scott Lorenz, Craig Rocastle, Milos Stojcev
TORONTO
Kyle Davies, Matthew Gold, Leandre Griffit, Javier Martina, Demitirius Omphroy, Eddy Viator, Eddy Zavarise
VANCOUVER
Bilal Duckett, Alexandre Morfaw
