For the second straight year the Red Bulls traded away their team captain.

After dealing Dax McCarty last offseason, they shipped Sacha Kljestan and $150,00 of targeted allocation money to Orlando for striker/midfielder Carlos Rivas and centerback Tommy Redding.

The move was first reported by ESPN and confirmed by The Post. It also was a case of the Red Bulls cashing in on win-now Orlando’s desperation to land a pair of young assets. Kljestan led the league in assists the past two seasons and will ably replace retiring Brazilian icon Kaka; but he’s 32, set to make well more than $1 million and is going into the final year of his contract.

Moving Kljestan — suspended for the first two games of the season for a clash with Jozy Altidore in the last year’s playoff ouster against Toronto — opens $500,000 in cap room. And the reshaping of the team is still ongoing.

The Red Bulls added Redding, 20, and Rivas, 23, both promising talents.

Redding was part of the U.S. Under-20 national team at last year’s U-20 World Cup, alongside young Red Bulls standout Tyler Adams. They have a solid history of bringing along young centerbacks (think Matt Miazga), and U.S. U-20 coach Tab Ramos raved about Redding’s potential.

Rivas arrived in Orlando as a young Designated Player on a $1.5 million transfer, notching five goals and five assists in 1,960 minutes last season and three goals and four assists in just 799 minutes the season before that.

The Colombian won’t count as a DP or even an international player since he has a green card. He can serve as a second striker or play wide left.

The rest of the savings can go toward finding a replacement for Kljestan. In an unrelated move, the Red Bulls reached agreement with Argentine side Atletico Huracan on a club-record $6.25 million transfer fee for Alejandro Romero Gamarra; but third-party rights have held up a deal originally agreed upon Dec. 22.

Gamarra’s ex-agent Marcelo Simonian has part of his rights and is demanding half of the transfer, with Huracan owner Alejandro Nadur refusing to even meet with him. But Argentine radio reports say the deal is far from dead, and that when Huracan resumes practice Wednesday the 22-year-old standout won’t be there.