2008 MLS expansion draft

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• Only one player could be selected from each team. Four of the league's 14 current teams did not have a player selected.
• Teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation Adidas players were automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2008 season were not.
• Teams with 4 or more international players were required to protect 3 of them. If a team had 3 or fewer international players, then it was required to protect all but one.
• Any developmental players selected were required to be moved up to the senior roster for the 2009 season.

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