MLS Draft: Chance Myers Selected With 1st Pick

#7 Chance Myers
UCLA Bruins Men's Soccer
Sophomore
Thousand Oaks HS near Oxnard, CA
6'0" 160 lbs.
Defender/Midfielder
U.S. National Team -- U.S. starter at the 2007 Pan American Games ... Played in all three games for the Under-20 Team at the 2006 Milk Cup and helped lead the team to the championship game ... Also made appearances with the Under-18 National Team and was called into a January 2008 camp for the Under-23 National Team.

2007 -- First-team All-Pac-10 honoree ... Named to the Top Drawer Soccer honorable mention Team of the Season ... Earned second-team Pac-10 All-Academic honors with a 3.33 gpa in History ... Starter in all 21 games ... Scored three goals on the year, including a dramatic game-tying goal against Notre Dame with just 38 seconds remaining in regulation and the game-winner with 1:11 left on the clock at San Francisco ... Also scored a goal at Washington in the Bruins' 3-2 win.

2006 -- Selected to the Top Drawer Soccer All-Freshman second-team ... Played in 21 games with five starts ... Scored his first collegiate goal in the NCAA semifinals against Virginia ... Tied for fourth on the team with four assists ... Assisted on game-winning goals against Oakland and San Francisco and also assisted on the Bruins' tying goal against Stanford at home and on the final goal against Harvard in the NCAA 2nd Round ... Was slowed a bit due to injury, spraining an ankle on the first day of pre-season training and again in the Sept. 29 game against Washington, which kept him on the sidelines for three games.

High School -- Earned Parade All-America and NSCAA/adidas Youth All-America honors in 2005 ... Ventura County Player of the Year as a senior at Thousand Oaks HS ... Also earned all-county honors as a junior and senior ... First-team All-CIF and All-Marmonte League from 2004-06 ... Named the 2005 Marmonte League Offensive MVP ... Finished his prep career with 37 goals and 17 assists ... Helped lead his team to two CIF titles ... Four-year soccer letterwinner under coach Mark Tietjen ... Earned three varsity letters with the Thousand Oaks golf team ... adidas ESP All-Star selection in 2005 ... Played club soccer with the Pateadores, which won the U-18 State Cup championship and was a semifinalist at the Regional Cup.

Personal -- Listed his biggest athletic thrill as committing to play at UCLA ... Hobbies include snowboarding, bodyboarding and golf ... Full name is Chance Russell Myers ... Born December 7, 1987 in Valencia, CA ... Biology major.

Yr GP GS Sh Gl A Pts
2006 21 5 10 1 4 6
2007 21 21 33 3 0 6
Totals 42 26 43 4 4 12

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[mrm0006]

I LOVE CHANCE MYERS he is so good now!

[RenegadeReplicant]

Chance is the definition of why you should be patient with players. He finally grew into his body and broke out in 2011. Has turned into the best overlapping RB in MLS.

[popocool44]

since when is there a draft in soccer?

[rays130226]

@FootbalFutbolS0ccer Every MLS team has their own youth academies (Premier Developmental League) and develop them from your own background instead for them to escape to go to college. They also brought back the reserve league for players who aren't MLS ready.

[rays130226]

@fweeeew Clint Dempsey, Maurice Edu, Brian McBride, Steve Ralston, Anti Razov, Kevin Hartman, Jeff Cunningham, Clint Mathis, Jay Heaps, Carlos Bocanerga, Nick Rimando, Brian Ching, Edson Buddle, Taylor Twellman, Sharlie Joesph, Brad Guzan, Will Hesmer and etc all got drafted. Drafts do work in the MLS, they either have long MLS careers or had some experience overseas. You can draft college and United States U-20 youth academies like Jack McInereny from the Union.

[fweeeew]

DRAFTS DON'T WORK FOR SOCCER. will the MLS realize this? They need to adopt the tiered relegation/promotion system and youth teams affiliated with each club.

[FootbalFutbolS0ccer]

how do u enter the draft?

can u get drafted straight out of high school?

[WooferDeLaSub]

hmmm i'd say his first season was probably a little better than petrov who i thought was truly abysmal, but whatever thats irrelevant. i see your point. but i think it stands that from a british perspective the lack of quality in us football is exaggerated and especially on youtube unnecessarily lorded over america

[KlaxProdigy]

i was and i wasnt

he was woeful at the end of last season and this season he has developed majorly

a lot like stilian petrov at the villa

[WooferDeLaSub]

fair enough, but you could have taken adaptation into account before you jumped to the conclusion that he was not worthy of the premiership. because as you'll agree he pretty much is.

also i havent judged you at all, i have no idea what youre like as a person, i just think you were wrong about clint dempseys footballing ability.