Daniel De La Rosa

Defensive Midfielder - Colorado Rapids
7 May 2030
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Marked for Daniel De La Rosa

187 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

25 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets25 Feb 2030

Colorado Rapids agree $320.0K for Manu Duah

The clubs have shaken hands with San Diego Football Club; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market25 Feb 2030

Elliot Panicco puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Colorado Rapids, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets25 Feb 2030

Door shut on Ștefan Chirilă

Colorado Rapids asked and Real Salt Lake said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad25 Feb 2030

Zack Steffen 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.

Market25 Feb 2030

Will Reilly is a Colorado Rapids player

The fee is $210.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Atlanta United FC drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market25 Feb 2030

San Diego Football Club watching Luke Brennan

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Colorado Rapids have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad25 Feb 2030

Jude Terry 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.

The dugout25 Feb 2030

When it matters, Ted Ku-DiPietro plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market25 Feb 2030

Colorado Rapids bring in an old head

Brandt Bronico is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

Back issues
183 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Jan 2030

40 days out for Ricardo Meléndez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colorado Rapids will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market28 Jan 2030

Miguel Navarro wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad28 Jan 2030

A falling-out at Colorado Rapids

Zack Steffen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad28 Jan 2030

A row about effort at Colorado Rapids

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jude Terry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

Ted Ku-DiPietro gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ted Ku-DiPietro is on it.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

No hiding place for Jayden Hibbert

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

In brief

175 Edition

The Colorado Rapids Gazette

3 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Dec 2029

A falling-out at Colorado Rapids

Zack Steffen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad3 Dec 2029

A row about effort at Colorado Rapids

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jude Terry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout3 Dec 2029

Ted Ku-DiPietro has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Colorado Rapids will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout3 Dec 2029

The manager makes an example of Luke Brennan

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market3 Dec 2029

Miguel Navarro linked with a move away

The name of Miguel Navarro keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Colorado Rapids say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout3 Dec 2029

Elliot Panicco has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Elliot Panicco has written the date down.

In brief