List of Foreign Born Players in MLS

[mpruitt]

I put together this list and figured that here would be a good place to keep it as we tend to be pretty detailed oriented. I started with each players nation of birth just for completeness sake, so obviously there are some players on the list who are decidedly un-foreign. Plase feel freee to correct, update and add.

Europe: (18)
Bulgaria
Ivanov, Galin
Stoitchkov, Hristo
Denmark
Ekelund, Ronnie - S-I
England
Powell, Darryl - S-I/DISC
Armstrong, Stephen - S-I
Williams, Mark - S-I/DISC
Germany
Urbas, Hermann - DISC
Ireland
O'Brien, Ronnie - T-I
N. Ireland
Morrow, Steve - S-I/DISC
Netherlands
Stewart, Earnie
Poland
Juskowiak, Andrzej - S-I/DISC
Romania
Zotinca, Alex - GC/DISC
Russia
Simutenkov, Igor - S-I
Scotland
Spencer, John - S-I
Switzerland
Agoos, Jeff
Ukrane
Kovalenko, Dema - GC
Yugoslavia
Preki

N. America and Caribbean: (15)
Canada
William, Andrews - S-I
De Rosario, Dwayne - S-I
Onstad, Pat - GC/DISC
Grenada
Joseph, Shalrie
Grenadine
Hendrickson, Ezra
Jamaca
Ralph, Damani - T-I
Cunningham, Jeff - DISC
Harris, Wolde - GC
Fraser, Robin
Thomas, Shavar - T-I
Marshall, Tyrone - GC
Mexico
Rizo, Alberto - T-I/DISC
Ochoa, Jesus - DEV
Martinez, Antonio
Turks and Caicos
Glinton, Gavin

Central America: (10)
El Salvador
Quintanilla, Eliseo - T-I
Cerritos, Ronald - GC
Cienfuegos, Mauricio - GC
Costa Rica
Bolanos,Jonathon - S-I/DISC
Ecudor
Murriagui, Andres - DEV/DISC
Guatemala
Garcia, Freddy
Ruiz, Carlos - S-I/DISC
Honduras
Reyes, Milton - GC/DISC
Guevara, Amado - SI
Pineda Chacon, Alex - S-I

South America: (18)
Argentina
Forchetti, Juan - T-I/DISC
Galvan, Jose - T-I/DISC
Fabbro, Dario - S-I/DISC
Vazquez, Jorge - S-I/DISC
Mastroeni, Pablo
Bolivia
Etcheverry, Marco
Moreno, Jaime - S-I
Vaca, Joselito - T-I
Brazil
Diego Walsh - T-I
Rodrigo Faria - S-I
Thiago Martins
Columbia
Llamosa, Carlos
Pareja, Oscar - GC
Gutierrez, Diego
Serna, Diego - S-I
Peru
Alegria, Jose - T-I
Uruguay
Cancela, Jose - S-I/DISC
Venuzuala
Moreno, Alejandro - T-I

Africa: (10)
Angola
Bartolomeu, Edgar - S-I/DISC
Botswana
Selolwane, Dipsy - S-I
Ghana
Addo, Joseph - GC
Malawi
Geddes, Jorge - DEV
Mali
Kante, Ibrahim - DEV
Kante, Daouda - S-I
Liberia
Roberts, Zizi - S-I
Gbandi, Chris
South Africa
Nhleko, Nkosinathi - S-I/DISC
Uganda
Bonseu, Tenywa - S-I

Asia & Others(4)
Korea
Myung-Bo, Hong - GC
New Zealand
Oughton, Duncan - S-I
Nelsen, Ryan - S-I
Elliott, Simon - S-I

S-I = Senior International
T-I = Transitional International
DISC = Discovery Player
DEV = Developmental Player
GC = Green Card Holder

[beineke]

Thx maxim ... looks impressively complete to me (in fact, too complete, I think :) -- hasn't Geddes already been waived?). Another tiny correction ... it's probably worth keeping things in line with FIFA geography, so Ecuador should go to S. America. Finally, one I'm not sure about ... was Chung born in Toronto?

[mpruitt]

Yeah it is too complete just for the sake of simplicity for me. As I'm not completely up on every single player in MLS it helped just to go on what the MLS rosters had to say, in terms of who's waived, or will be waived, or retired beyond some obvious ones. I duno.

Next part of the project is to list their games started, played and total minutes. Also, I should've listed what team they play for because as I was doing it I didn't and I don't have any idea who some of these guys play for.

And... just looking now at the waiver wire, at least 3-4 of the guys on that list were just waived.

[beineke]

max ... check yr PMs