Right after trading Dominic Oduro to New York for Dave van den Bergh, FC Dallas turned its attention to the MLS SuperDraft in hopes of finding youthful talent.

The franchise selected Michigan striker Peri Marosevic with the fifth overall pick last Thursday in St. Louis.

“We worked three months preparing for this draft,” said FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman. “When we got to this stage, we had a list of players that we wanted. And we were fortunate that it fell in for us that all three players that we drafted are players that were on our list.”

Marosevic scored 24 goals for Michigan in his three-year college career. “I am very excited to have been chosen by Dallas,” the nineteen-year old mentioned in an interview. “It will be difficult the first year as a rookie, but all I want to do is to work hard in practice, open the eyes of the coaches and show that I am ready to play professional.”

The top two picks of the draft were Akron’s Steve Zukuani and Oak Cliff’s Omar Gonzalez (respectively).

“It's funny, when we created our list, I had Peri No. 1 and Zukuani No. 2,” Hyndman narrates. “As it turns out, it worked out the other way. But the way the draft fell for us, Peri was still available when we had our pick.”