When you look up things that American sports fans love, I’m pretty sure the list is: Championships, playoffs, and then drafts right after that.
Standing apart from all the excitement and hullabaloo that surrounds the NFL, NBA, and even the NHL draft we find Major League Soccer’s draft that will be happening on Friday. The MLS draft is particularly odd amongst all the other sports drafts in American sports for more than a couple of reasons. The question many have asked for some time is whether or not this very American mechanism for player selection is the right way for young players to be selected by MLS teams or if there might be some other tried and tested way to go about it.