How much does the Major League Soccer SuperDraft even matter anymore?
To take the league’s tacit assessment of the situation, not nearly as much as it used to. The dispersal of the nation’s top unattached amateur players is no longer televised, in fact it’s not even a public event. The college draft used to be a January ESPN-broadcast jamboree that coincided with the annual United Soccer Coaches convention in Philadelphia as club staffs gathered to kick off the North American soccer calendar. After several years of downscaled production accelerated by the covid pandemic, this year the draft will be a December webcam call a few days before Christmas.