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Still, Canadians Ryan Raposo , Alistair Johnston and Dayonn Harris hope to be front and centre when 26 MLS teams, including expansion Inter Miami and Nashville, make their picks.
Vassili Cremanzidis, head of analysis and assistant director of player personnel for the Montreal Impact, agrees. "So I'm excited about the quality you can get. But at the same time I'm realistic with the fact that these are players that don't know yet the professional environment. It takes a big jump," he said."The stories of Gressel and Toye ... it doesn't mean they happen every year."
According to MLS.com, 28 of the 76 players selected in last year's draft made an MLS roster. That number now stands at 24.Four Canadians were taken in the first 27 picks last year with three in the top nine: defender Callum Montgomery fourth , goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair seventh and midfielder Tajon Buchanan ninth . Defender Kamal Miller went 27th .
Inter Miami CF holds the first and third overall picks with fellow expansion side Nashville SC picking second. The Vancouver Whitecaps select fourth."We have to be smart because we always have to look at the full picture ... What do we need as a club," he said."So we're looking at everything. We're looking at the possibility of trading. We're looking at the options of guys we want to pick.
Senior defenders Dylan Nealis and Tanner Beason also signed contracts with the league ahead of the draft but are not part of the GA class.Montreal took teenage midfielder Shamit Shome, a GA player, in the second round in 2017. The Edmonton native saw just eight minutes of MLS play in his first year and 249 minutes in 2018.
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