The Colorado Rapids Gazette
Squad2 Aug 2032
Zack Steffen breaks a bone — 74 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings2 Aug 2032
Nobody could get near Georgi Minoungou
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Aug 2032
John Nelson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Colorado Rapids have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Aug 2032
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.
Squad2 Aug 2032
Words at Colorado Rapids training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miguel Navarro 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.
Match31 Jul 2032
Darren Yapi sends Colorado Rapids past Seattle Sounders
It finished 1‑0, and it was Darren Yapi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Colorado Rapids.
Player ratings2 Aug 2032
Darren Yapi in the eights
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings2 Aug 2032
Miguel Navarro was immovable
9 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Market2 Aug 2032
Tim Morris leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tim Morris leaves Colorado Rapids the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Boardroom Colorado Rapids keep producing them
- Boardroom Colorado Rapids board back the manager
- The terraces Darren Yapi has his own song now