Two of New York's goalkeepers, Ronald Waterreus and Jon Conway, are mortal locks to make the team. (Waterreus hasn't officially signed yet, but all indications are that he will.) Waterreus is an incoming transfer from Glasgow Rangers, Scotland's second-best team. Conway is the incumbent starter, and should compete with Waterreus for time in goal.

Now, here's where it gets interesting. The Red Bulls' number three man is Michael Behonick, an American University graduate who's played for three years in the A-League, the MLS equivalent of Triple-A. He would seem to be a better candidate to make the team than a rookie. But the wrinkle is that Cepero is eligible to get a development contract, while Behonick, at 26, is too old. Every MLS team is mandated to have a first-team squad of 18 players and a development roster of 10 players who are 24 or younger. The development rosters have non-guaranteed contracts and roster spots, which gives the team increased flexibility.

In New York's case, it might not want to waste 3 of its 18 first-team spots on goalkeepers. And since that third goalkeeper probably won't be playing meaningful minutes, it's probably not as important for him to have a lot of game experience. The financial flexibility aspect should play a much larger role in determining those last roster spots.

Of course, RBNY could decide to keep four goalkeepers (so much the better for Cepero!) or they could pick up another 'keeper somewhere along the line. But at the moment, purely from a team management perspective, it's in New York's interest to sign their new draft pick.

Then again, there's a reason current Red Bulls coach Bruce Arena didn't get his contract renewed at his last coaching stop, and it wasn't because of his sound management.

Cepero went in the fourth round of today's Supplemental Draft to the New York Red Bulls, who are coached by recently-dismissed U.S. national boss Bruce Arena.

The Baldwin, N.Y. native never played in the NCAA Tournament, but will be remembered as the team's anchor between the sticks for the past two years. His shutouts late in the year against Brown, Princeton and Columbia helped to preserve the Quakers' Ivy title hopes right up to the last minute of the last match.

Cepero is still a long way from getting onto the pitch for RBNY, though. He's unlikely to make the senior roster (only 18 players can, in MLS), so he would likely be battling for a spot on the development roster, the MLS equivalent of the youth teams many European clubs have.

Or, like Haefner, he may end up not pursuing the opportunity at all.

Look for more analysis on the Cepero selection in Monday's DP.

Daniels didn't make too much noise against Penn in the 0-0 2OT draw at Rhodes field this year (three shots, none on goal), but tore apart Adelphi in the first round of the NCAA Tournament with a hat trick in the 4-1 win. The Bears lost in the next round against Duke, 2-0. He totaled eight goals and four assists last season, for his second-straight first team All Ivy selection.

Daniels played up front for Brown, but was attractive because of his versatillity - he played defense at a recent combine.

The Milwaukee, Wisc., native played at Marquette University High School, the same place as Penn forward Mike Klein and midfielder Kevin Unger.

The ACC owns the MLS Draft, providing each of the top 6 picks. In all it accounted for 14 of the 52 total picks - top selection Maurice Edu was a Terp, and Virginia, Wake Forest and North Carolina all had three or more players picked.

The only pick Penn faced was Daniels. The Quakers would have gone up against #35 overall Nick LaBrocca of Rutgers, but that matchup was cancelled.

Penn won that game, 3-1, and that was the best I've seen the team play all year. But Harvard's short, speedy #17 caught my eye. On more than one occasion, he left sophomore John Elicker - one of Penn's best defenders - in the dust. I remember thinking that if he was as good controlling the ball as he was running to catch up to it, the Quakers would have been in trouble.

Well, it seems like the Westford, Mass. native has found that control. In his last two games, the sophomore has three goals and four assists. Two of the goals came in Harvard's whitewashing of then-No. 14 Brown in Providence last weekend. Then on Tuesday, Fucito traveled to my hometown of Worcester, Mass. and dropped another goal and assist in a win over Holy Cross. Thanks in large part to Fucito, Harvard has put up an impressive 11 goals in its last 180 minutes, is on a five-game winning streak and is now ranked #25.

And one day before the Holy Cross win, Soccer Times named Fucito its national player for the week of October 9-15. (He had, after all, gotten the golden goal against Fairfield on Oct. 9.)

With the emergence of Fucito and the presence of Charles Altchek and young Andre Akpan, Harvard might have the best offense in the Ivy League. So as Penn heads up to New Haven to play slumping Yale this evening, one can't help feeling that the Quakers chose the right time to meet their rivals from the Bay State. The question is, can they take advantage of their good fortune?

12:00 p.m.: Greetings from the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Center City, where the 2006 Major League Soccer SuperDraft is about to get under way. I'm still trying to find Penn men's head coach Rudy Fuller, and I'll let you know when I do, but it's not that easy because most of the people in the main exhibit hall where the draft is taking place are affiliated with the 12 teams in MLS.

I hope to be able to take a Philly angle on this event -- also not the easiest thing to do because this is the largest city in the country without a MLS team. But I did find Temple coach David MacWilliams, who definitely has a stake in today's events as his star player, forward Tony Donatelli, is in the draft pool.

"I think he's a kid that has passion for the game and he's been invovled with the game," MacWilliams said of Donatelli. "I think Tony would be a great asset to any team he would be drafted by."

MacWilliams added that he has talked to "a few teams," and that he does think Donatelli will be drafted.

12:10 p.m.: This being a draft, it shouldn't be a surprise that the trades are already coming fast and furious. Chivas USA, coached by former Princeton coach Bob Bradley, traded the first overall pick in the draft to Bradley's old team, the New York/New Jersey MetroStars, for the fifth overall pick and the always-intriguing "player to be named later."

The Metros took UCLA and U.S. Under-20 national team defender Marvell Wynne, the son of the ex-Major League Baseball player of the same name. There are a lot of Metros fans in the crowd here, and they cheered Wynne's selection loudly. That surprised me -- I thought New Yorkers always booed their teams' first picks in drafts. Still, Wynne's definitely one of the top two or three players in the pool, and he'll be a player worth following for fans all over the country.

More to come over the course of the day -- there are four rounds total, with five minutes between each pick in the first round.

1:12 p.m.: The first round has ended with no Philadelphia or Ivy League players drafted. That's not too surprising, but hopefully things will change in the rounds to come.

1:42 p.m.: We finally have some Penn involvement at this year's draft, and it has nothing to do with Rudy Fuller. MLS Commissioner Don Garber just addressed the media, and one of the hot topics he discussed was the league potentially expanding to Philadelphia.

"This is a great city for soccer, and we're interested in the city, and we'll continue to discuss oportunities here as well as with others in some of the outlying areas," Garber said. "This is a market we've got to be in."

Lincoln Financial Field, which has hosted a number of soccer exhibitions as well as being the Philadelphia Eagles' home stadium, would seem to be the obvious choice for a MLS team to play in, because of its grass field and modern amenities. But Garber did not rule out Franklin Field as a possible venue for a team, either.

"There are lots of facilities -- Penn's a good facility and the Linc's a good facility," he said.

Garber added that Franklin Field's Sprinturf surface would not be an obstacle to having pro soccer on Penn's campus.

"FIFA has now accepted artificial surfaces, even for World Cup competitions," he said. But he also admitted that "we love a grass field."

Garber also praised Philadelphia's organizing of this year's draft and coaches' convention.

"This is by far the best production we've ever had, it's the largest crowd we've ever had," he said. "This gives you the feeling that you're at the NFL draft -- it's a big-time event."

2:37 p.m.: Rats. I missed the first Philly-area guy picked. Georgetown defender Jeff Curtin, a native of Oreland, Pa., was drafted by the Chicago Fire with the second pick of the second round (14th overall). Unfortunately, Jeff isn't here, or I'd go try to talk to him.

Interestingly, Chicago -- coached by former Cornell head coach Dave Sarachan -- also drafted Jeff's older brother, Jim (a Villanova grad), in 2001. We could very well see both players lining up in the Fire's backline next season.

3:19 p.m.: I finally found Rudy Fuller, chatting with fellow convention-goers in the the back of the ballroom where the draft is taking place. Unlike many of the other coaches I've seen today, Fuller was dressed in a jacket and tie. He said that he was "just looking official," because the Ivy League had its coaches meeting today.

One of the people Fuller spent time with was one of his former assistants, Rob Vartughian. As he did with the Quakers, Vartughian works with the Terrapins' goalkeepers. Considering that Maryland posted 13 shutouts in this past regular season and two in the College Cup -- including the national championship game against New Mexico -- Vartughian's doing a pretty good job, to say the least.

He said that he has lots of good memories from his time at Penn, and praised Fuller's work in making the Quakers into a nationally-recognized program.

"I think they're in the right direction," Vartughian said.

I also found Princeton coach Bob Barlow, who put in a good word for the only Tiger in the draft pool, midfielder Darren Spicer.

"He's got an incredible engine, he can get up and down the field for 90 minutes," Barlow said. And while he admitted that Spicer isn't "polished" as a player, "at the end of the day, he finds ways to create goals and score goals."

We're now midway through the fourth, and final, round, however, so the chances of Spicer being drafted are decreasing quickly.

3:46 p.m.: The draft has ended. Unfortunately, neither Donatelli nor any of the Ivy Leaguers were drafted. Thanks for reading along.