SANDY, Utah (Monday, December 10, 2018) – Real Salt Lake has announced the 11 players on the club’s Protected Player list in advance of the 2018 MLS Expansion Draft, taking place this Tuesday, December 11. FC Cincinnati will select five players with no club losing more than one player to the expansion side.
The following 11 RSL players will not be eligible for selection by Cincinnati when Major League Soccer’s newest club makes its selections:
GK Nick Rimando
DF Justen Glad
DF Nedum Onuoha
DF Marcelo Silva
MF Kyle Beckerman
MF Damir Kreilach
MF Pablo Ruiz
MF Albert Rusnák
MF Sebastian Saucedo
FW Joao Plata
FW Jefferson Savarino
In addition to those 11 players, Homegrown Players DF Danilo Acosta, FW Corey Baird, MF Jose Hernandez, DF Aaron Herrera and DF/FW Brooks Lennon are exempt from the draft and cannot be selected.