The Colorado Rapids Gazette
Squad8 Jul 2041
A knee injury of the worst kind for Facundo Echevarría
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colorado Rapids lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match8 Jul 2041
Colorado Rapids are in real trouble now
Position 13, 15 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad8 Jul 2041
Iago has been here 15 seasons
172 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad8 Jul 2041
Bryce Jamison 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 ratings8 Jul 2041
No sign of nerves from Miles Bradley at 20 — 7.64
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Miles Bradley did not need any: 7.64, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market8 Jul 2041
Walker Sargent 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 The request is on a desk at Colorado Rapids, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings8 Jul 2041
Frédéric Robert runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Jul 2041
Darren Yapi 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.
Market8 Jul 2041
A long bet from Colorado Rapids on Sam Wright
He is 20, and nobody at Colorado Rapids signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Boardroom Intake day at the Colorado Rapids academy
- Match Miles Bradley rescues a point for Colorado Rapids
- Market The Luca Johnson talk will not go away