The 2020 Major League Soccer SuperDraft begins at 12:30PM today. The event will be livestreamed on @ESPN on Twitter and across MLS social media channels.
Rounds 1 and 2 of the MLS SuperDraft will be streamed this afternoon, with rounds 3 and 4 conducted over conference call on Monday. Fans will see cameras embedded in select club draft rooms and SuperDraft prospect rooms, with live look-ins available throughout the show.
includes cameras embedded with players and club decision-makers, live look-ins on club draft rooms and instant engagement with fans on Twitter during the first round.
Expansion sides inter Miami CF (1st pick) and Nashville SC (2nd pick) will open the draft. The Union currently have the 21st pick in the first round.
In past years, the Union have picked extraordinarily well in the draft, with three members of last season's back line - Andre Blake, Ray Gaddis, and Jack Elliott - all arriving through this roster mechanism. In 2019, first-year Sporting Director Ernst Tanner traded all five of Philadelphia's SuperDraft picks to FC Cincinnati in exchange for allocation money.
