Montreal forward Ibrahim Conde looks forward to Friday’s MLS SuperDraft [Video]

The University of New Hampshire helped develop star defender Moise Bombito. Now the Wildcats have another Canadian looking to make his mark.

Montreal forward Ibrahim Conde, the lone Canadian invited to last week’s MLS College Showcase in San Diego, hopes to follow Bombito’s road to the pros via Friday’s MLS SuperDraft.

With clubs increasingly using their academies as talent pipelines, the three-round MLS draft is not as important as it once was. That was shown recently when the Philadelphia Union traded all of its draft picks over the next three years — eight picks in all — to the Colorado Rapids for up to US$600,000 in general allocation money.

Conde had a tryout back in the day with CF Montreal’s academy but did not catch on.

He is a draw these days, however. One of 44 invited players put through their paces in front of MLS club officials at the …