Courtesy of Denver Athletics
TAMPA, Fla. - Major League Soccer announced its preliminary list of 60 players invited to its 2019 MLS Combine on Thursday, which will run from Jan. 3 through Jan. 9.
In all, 48 former USL League Two players received invitations to the event, which is designed to offer prospective professional players a last opportunity to improve their stock ahead of the MLS SuperDraft.
Former Colorado Rapids U23 and University of Denver striker Andre Shinyashiki and Syracuse defender Kamal Miller were among the former League Two players to be included on the invitation list.
Below is the full list of 2019 MLS Combine invitees.
(Note: All players highlighted in red have previously played in USL League Two (formerly Premier Development League)
Player | School | Position | Hometown | Citizen |
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Asiedu, Anderson | UCLA | M | Dormaa Ahenkro, Ghana | Ghana |
Barraza, Luis | Marquette | GK | Santa Teresa, NM | USA |
Bashti, Amir | Stanford | F | Cupertino, CA | USA |
Basic, Jakov | UMass-Lowell | M | Zagreb, Croatia | Croatia |
Bone, Tucker | Air Force Academy | M | Granite Bay, CA | USA |
Borges, Marcello | Michigan | D | Kearny, NJ | USA |
Brown, Sam | Harvard | M | Ann Arbor, MI | USA |
Bruening, Nils | UNC | F | Hamsburg, Germany | Germany |
Buckmaster, Rece | Indiana | D | Auburn, IN | USA |
Bunk-Andersen, Pat | Clemson | D | Copenhagen, Denmark | Denmark |
Camara, Mamadi | Simon Fraser | F | Montreal, Quebec | Canada |
Castenheira, Dylan | Columbia | GK | Landing, NJ | USA |
Coffee, Kyle | Washington | F | Syracuse, UT | USA |
Comsia, Alex | UNC | D | North Vancouver, BC | Canada |
Cuello, Emil | SMU | M | Orem, UT | USA |
Dee, Geoffrey | Louisville | M | Germantown, TN | USA |
Delhomeele, Hugo | Syracuse | M | Rennes, France | France |
Dotson, Hassani | Oregon State | M | Federal Way, WA | USA |
Dunwell, Brad | Wake Forest | M | Grand Rapids, MI | USA |
Elney, Sebastian | Maryland | F | Boca Raton, FL | USA |
Enstrom, Simon | Boston College | F | Huddinge, Sweden | Sweden |
Figbe, Prosper | Virginia | D | Ilorin, Nigeria | Nigeria |
Gasper, Chase | Maryland | D | Alexandria, VA | USA |
Gdula, Logan | Wake Forest | D | East Lyme, CT | USA |
Greenberg, Dylan | Connecticut | D | Dix Hills, NY | USA |
Hague, Jimmy | Michigan State | GK | Walled Lake, MI | USA |
Hauser-Ramsey, Jacob | Connecticut | D | Seattle, WA | USA |
Hein, Lennart | Saint Louis | D | Hamburg, Germany | Germany |
Jones, DeJuan | Michigan State | F | Lansing, MI | USA |
Kadono, Shinya | California - Berkeley | F | Irvine, CA | Japan/USA |
Kenton Fadel, Kervin | Coastal Carolina | D | San Jose, Costa Rica | Costa Rica |
Loebe, Janos | Fordham | F | Kierspe, Germany | Germany |
Lundt, Ben | Akron | GK | Berlin, Germany | Germany |
Mbacke Thiam, Abdu | Connecticut | F | Dakar, Senegal | Senegal |
McCabe, Tommy | Notre Dame | M | South Orange, NJ | USA |
McDonough, Brendan | Georgetown | D | Matthews, NC | USA |
Mertz, Robbie | Michigan | M | Pittsburgh, PA | USA |
Miller, Colin | Providence College | GK | Bel Air, MD | USA |
Miller, Kamal | Syracuse | D | Pickering, Ontario | Canada |
Mohammed, Abdi | Akron | D | Westerville, OH | USA |
Montgomery, Callum | UNC Charlotte | D | Victoria, BC | Canada |
Nuhu, Rashid | Fordham | GK | Accra, Ghana | Ghana |
Osmand, Mitchell | Rio Grande | D | Sydney, Australia | Australia |
Patino, Santiago | FIU | F | Orlando, FL | USA |
Perez, Moshe | Denver | M | Shim'a, Israel | Israel |
Perez Burgos, Javi | Pittsburgh | M | Valencia, Spain | Spain |
Piatczyc, Joey | West Virginia | M | Lee's Summit, MO | USA |
Pyle, James | UNC | GK | Charlotte, NC | USA |
Riley, Camden | Pacific | M | Dallas, TX | USA |
Rivas, Sergio | Seattle | M | Albuquerque, NM | USA |
Rydstrand, Joel | Creighton | M | Almunge, Sweden | Sweden |
Samuels, Andrew | Maryland | D | Tampa, FL | USA |
Sejdic, Amar | Maryland | M | Louisville, KY | USA |
Shinyashiki, Andre | Denver | F | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Brazil |
Sierakowski, Ryan | Michigan State | F | McHenry, IL | USA |
Swartz, Harry | Northeastern | F | Needham, MA | USA |
Tchilao, Don | Oregon State | F | Chandler, AZ | Benin |
Ueland, Thomas | Notre Dame | F | Lexington, KY | USA |
Verstraaten, Wouter | Pacific | D | Heeze, Netherlands | Netherlands |
Ward, Akeem | Creighton | D | Vienna, VA | USA |