Noah Cobb

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56 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

One of those days for Darren Yapi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.80, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words at Colorado Rapids training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Keegan Rosenberry is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Kosi Thompson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kosi Thompson and Colorado Rapids agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Dave Romney in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colorado Rapids this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A promise honoured for Hamzat Ojediran

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Colorado Rapids told Hamzat Ojediran something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ted Ku-DiPietro

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Hamzat Ojediran will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

Match

Colorado Rapids and Vancouver Whitecaps take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Bruno Damiani could have had three

12 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

Back issues
53 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Loïc Williams asks to leave Colorado Rapids

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Gamba Osaka join the queue for Rob Holding

Add another name to the list: Gamba Osaka have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rob Holding. The answer from Colorado Rapids has not changed — yet.

Market

Colorado Rapids sell Dante Sealy for $2.3M

Dante Sealy has left for Seattle Sounders in a $2.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Paxten Aaronson in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Colorado Rapids this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Colorado Rapids against Seattle Sounders

2‑3 to Seattle Sounders, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Miguel Navarro

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Navarro, and the manager let it.

Squad

Paxten Aaronson is carrying Colorado Rapids

9 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Paxten Aaronson

Marked 8.61 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Keegan Rosenberry falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

52 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Paxten Aaronson's — 9.16

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Colorado Rapids sign Tristan Muyumba for $2.1M

The paperwork is done: Tristan Muyumba joins from Atlanta United FC in a deal worth $2.1M. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Noah Cobb says Colorado Rapids went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Ted Ku-DiPietro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Colorado Rapids

Paxten Aaronson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Paxten Aaronson the difference as Colorado Rapids beat Sporting Kansas City

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Paxten Aaronson. 3‑2 against Sporting Kansas City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Ted Ku-DiPietro falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Paxten Aaronson is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.31 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Seattle Sounders are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Colorado Rapids will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief