A player’s value in the draft can change depending if they are an international player.  MLS allows 8 (10 for Toronto) international players.  A player that has a US green card (such as Jaime Moreno) doesn’t count against the international player limit.

According to the 2009 adidas MLS combine information guide, the following players have the following citizenship status:

  • Kwame Adjeman-Pamboe – USA
  • Jean Alexandre – Haiti
  • Graciano Brito – Cape Verde, but holds a US green card (that surprised me)!
  • Aaron Clapham – New Zealand (yep, he was at the U20 tourney in Canada)
  • Stefan Frei – Switzerland (ok, GA – but does he count as an international? – probably)
  • Andrei Gotsmanov – USA and Belarus
  • Juan Guerra – Venezuela
  • Baggio Husidic – USA and Bosnia (this surprised me as well)
  • Milos Kocic – Serbia
  • Yohance Marshall – T&T (no surprise, here)
  • Ryan Maxwell – Jamaica
  • Paul Nicholson – England (not that it matters)
  • Jide Ogunbiyi – USA and Nigeria (another surprise)
  • Kyle Patterson – England (ok what I thought)
  • Akeem Priestley – Jamaica
  • Daniel Revivo – Canada (I have media stuff from Winthrop that he has both Canadian and USA citizenship.  I followed up with their media guy and he confirmed it, but couldn’t explain it.  I’ll follow up tomorrow).
  • Rodney Wallace – Costa Rica and USA green card.  (This was a big surprise that he had a green card).
  • Steve Zakuani – United Kingdom.

FYI – I followed up with the UConn media folks and she confirmed that O’Brian White is a Canadian resident.