Collegiate drafts are as American as apple pie. People all across the United States are enamored with the idea of a young player turning pro and helping shape their favorite sports team for the next decade. This is evidenced by more than 200,000 fans flooding into Nashville to watch the 2019 NFL Draft last April.
While the MLS SuperDraft doesn’t carry the same weight as the NFL or NBA, nor do teams rely on it as a major mechanism of player acquisition, it still serves a functional purpose that may never completely disappear.
As the amount of resources put into youth soccer has risen, the amount of talent that has gone through to the SuperDraft as fallen.