Soccer Blogs Posts Tagged Colorado Rapids

Week 29 Recap - Muddling up the Playoff Picture

2008-10-14T03:17:32+00:00

Here we go again. Another weekend, and no one wants to throw in the towel. Of the three playoff spots up for grabs, all nine remaining teams are theoretically alive and well - although some in a better place than others. Whether it was a stunning shot from the likes of Brandon McDonald, or some [...]

Rapids run swamped by Galaxy

2008-10-14T01:18:00+00:00

The Rapids apparently left their playoff chances in Colorado when they left for LA, because the team played like they had no interest in continuing the season past the FSL game. A Galaxy offense devoid of stars managed 3 goals against a Colorado defense that was solid until the last 3 games.

Playoff Picture

2008-10-13T19:25:17+00:00

Well, the Rapids did themselves no favor in Los Angles. They needed a result, instead they got schooled. So we're down to two games with no teams being eliminated from contention yet: Colorado, with 34 points, remains in Los Angles...

Gary on the game

2008-10-13T08:14:00+00:00

Gary Smith, the coach of the Rapids since Clavijo resigned in August.

VI Questions with Gary Smith: Dynamo Loss

2008-10-12T02:12:27+00:00

Gary Smith was kind enough to answer some questions for Rapids fans. Conducted by great Rapids Supporters Kevin & Yvonne Callahan I. Going into the game against Houston, Brian Ching has historically found great success against the Rapids and Dwayne...

Rapids hope to leave Galaxy seeing stars

2008-10-10T17:15:00+00:00

The Rapids are out in LA-LA land for their first leg of a 2-game stand against the LA teams. Sunday night they play the Galaxy at 6pm MDT, and the fans will be at the British Bulldog like normal.

Here's the injury report:

OUT: GK Justin Hughes (R shoulder); PROBABLE: FW Tom McManus (L knee)

DISCIPLINE:
Suspended: Conor Casey
Suspended after 1 more yellow card: Pablo Mastroeni, Colin Clark, Nick LaBrocca
Suspended after 2 more yellow cards: Conor Casey

My lineup prediction:

Burpo
Kimura - Ihemelu - Petke - Harvey
Cooke - Pablo - LaBrocca - Clark
McManus - Peterson

In today's Post Smith says that Petereson and McManus will start for the missing Casey and Cummings.

More International Call-ups

2008-10-09T05:31:19+00:00

It's the downside of having a good scouting system: as soon as any foreign Rapids player gets good, they get snagged by their national team. But, for having a keeper like Bouna in the nets or a forward like Omar up front, it's the price you pay. Both Bouna Coundoul and Omar Cummings have been called to their homes overseas to help their countries get to the World Cup.

VI Questions with Christian Gomez

2008-10-08T21:21:23+00:00

Christian Gomez was kind enough to take some time for Class VI and answer some questions for us. The interview was conducted and translated by CVI's Kevberto Nuñez I. The teams fortunes have dramatically reversed from being last in the...

MLS Playoff Push: Colorado Edition

2008-10-08T01:28:48+00:00

The Colorado Rapids are selling playoff tickets on their website. That's an unusually strange move for a team that would barely qualify for the postseason if the regular season ended today. I guess you could call it confident though, which is never a bad thing in pro sports. Well, so long as you're not overconfident, that is.

Week 28 Recap - Anyone want the playoffs?

2008-10-07T03:31:38+00:00

Who do you pick now to make the playoffs? With a handful of games remaining there are now three teams who have assured themselves of a playoff berth - New England, Houston, and Columbus, one team that hasn't been there in awhile, two that have been there time and time again. Who's next? That's a [...

Weekend Roundup 10/4-10/5

2008-10-06T21:25:00+00:00

Yeah, I know I missed next week. I promise that I won't miss another Weekend Roundup as long as I'm being paid to do this. ;)

Colorado Rapids - My game review is here. With the loss the Rapids fall into a tie with Dallas for 4rd in the West, the last playoff spot.

Rapids Burp(o) up all over the Dick

2008-10-05T23:02:00+00:00

Image Credit: Mike Murphy, ASN

Yuck. The worst combination of poor Rapids play and poor officiating that I can remember. Just a disaster of a game on all fronts. Instead of a blow-by-blow review of that junk, I'll just hit the highlights.

Houston Goal #1: Journeyman keeper Preston Burpo apparently thought he was playing for yet another MLS team and played a perfect pass to Dynamo Brian Ching, who took the assist gladly for a 1-0 lead inside 2 minutes.

Week 28 - October

2008-10-04T16:00:56+00:00

It's an exciting time of year. As the crisp autumn weather cools most places around the country, the playoff race is heating up. Teams are fighting for their postseason lives, anxious to be one of the eight to have a shot at the MLS Cup. It has been well documented here that Columbus is the [...]

Video: Colorado Rapids Get "Rise" from New Ad

2008-10-03T20:23:00+00:00

In an effort to give equal time to both sides of the Rocky Mountain rivalry, here's Colorado's new Flobots-enhanced advert. Have you heard Flobots? They're a bunch a agit-hippies from Denver that had the song "Handlebars" out a while back; you might like them. I hear they have a tour bus made entirely of hemp and vinyl recycled from old Spearhead records that runs on a mix of patchouli oil & stale Fat Tire.

Rapids Hoping to Crush Houston

2008-10-03T18:43:00+00:00

The Rapids host the Dynamo in their next-to-last home game of the season tomorrow night at the Dick. Kickoff is at 7pm, tailgating starts at 5.

Here's the injury report:

OUT: GK Justin Hughes (R shoulder); DOUBTFUL: FW Tom McManus (L knee)

DISCIPLINE: Suspended after 1 more yellow card - Pablo Mastroeni, Colin Clark, Nick LaBrocca

My lineup prediction:

Burpo
Kimura - Gibbs - Petke - Harvey
Cooke - Pablo - Ballouchy - Clark
Casey - Cummings

Smith has been pretty consistent about his lineups and its been working, so I see no reason to expect saignificant changes.

Rapids Playoff Push...

2008-10-03T18:41:00+00:00

This has been an up and down year to say the least for Colorado Rapids fans. I'm not going to do a season run down, this is a call to all the soccer fans in the Denver metro area to make sure you come out and support the playoff push. The Rapids are back in the swing of things. Coach Smith has the team back on the right track and they're playing great soccer.

Road to the Cup

2008-10-03T18:28:20+00:00

The Rapids have had a major turn around from the summer where they fell to last in MLS. Since Gary Smith took over, Mike Petke returned from injury and took over the arm band from Pablo Mastroeni, and Cory Gibbs...

Why Kildare County?

2008-10-03T03:31:00+00:00

Another, and for now the last, in my occasional series of posts about why I follow the teams I do. I've done previous posts about the Colorado Rapids, Queen of the South, Blackburn Rovers, Ebbsfleet United, and CD Tenerife. This time around we'll look at Kildare County FC of the Irish First Division.

CVI Questions with Coach Gary Smith: Undefeated in September

2008-10-01T22:04:24+00:00

Coach Gary Smith has gotten the Rapids back on track and took some time out for CVI from a phone interview. I. How is preparing MLS players for a match different then preparing the English FA players? Coach Smith feels...

Rapids 2009

2008-10-01T18:52:00+00:00

The credit for this topic goes to Dan, who suggested I take a look at what kind of salary room the Rapids are likely to have next year

While not dismissing our playoff chances I wanted to take a look at the rapids salary situation next year. Colorado looks like it will have some real room to play with, given the likelihood of players leaving or being moved.

Week 27 Recap

2008-10-01T00:32:28+00:00

There's plenty to talk about after another busy weekend of MLS action. A few teams look dead and buried (DC, LA, and Toronto), while others storm to life at the right time - RSL and Colorado - to give themselves the inner track in the race to the playoffs. But if this season of the [...]

Vote three times for Connor’s hat trick

2008-09-30T08:39:39+00:00

I mentioned it in the recap, but we should really flood the box for Connor Casey's goal as Goal of the Week. It was an amazing, last-second, game-winning, hat-trick-clinching strike. So vote early and often Rapids fans. We really don't get enough of these.

New York Red Bulls 4-5 Colorado Rapids

2008-09-30T08:35:23+00:00

How did New York win the Super Bowl? They peaked at the end of their season, going into the playoffs. That's a different sport, of course, but it's a good lesson to remember: to win a title, you have to finish strong. And so far, the Rapids are doing just that.

It's hard to say that the Rapids don't have momentum right now.

Who were those guys and what did they do with the Rapids?

2008-09-29T19:41:00+00:00

A whole lot of firsts for the Rapids on Saturday night. The first time this season they've come from behind to win. The first time in their history they've scored 5 goals on the road. The first time this season the Rapids gave up 4 goals. It was a wild and crazy affair at the Meadowlands Saturday night.

RBNY's Loss to Colorado in a Word and Photo.

2008-09-29T16:38:00+00:00

(Summary is not available.)

Casey Named Player of the Week

2008-09-29T15:04:00+00:00

Colorado Rapids midfielder Conor Casey has been named MLS Player of the Week for Week 27 after bagging a hat trick against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, including the game-winning goal in second-half stoppage time. In winning the honor, Casey's offensive outburst overshadowed other sensational individual performances by the likes of Yura Movsisyan and Darren Huckerby, who scored two goals each over the weekend.

Real Salt Lake’s Stadium to be Named for a Coal Mining Company?

2008-09-29T14:30:40+00:00

When it comes to stadium naming rights, I suppose you can't do worse than FC Dallas's Pizza Hut Park. Or The Colorado Rapids' Dick's Sporting Goods Park, which will be affectionately known, forever, as "The Dick." But I think Real Salt Lake has to get the award for Most Unusual Sponsor for their [.

That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen: RBNY 4 - Rapids 5

2008-09-29T13:29:13+00:00

Two come from behind goals to tie the game, one goal for the lead, and the home result? Zero points. Ouch.

Last year, Bruce Arena was highly criticized for his inability to field a consistent squad week in and week out. Coach Osorio is beginning to get an earful for the same.

Monday Morning MLS Playoff Glance

2008-09-29T07:04:00+00:00

Week 27 of Major League Soccer's regular season is now in the books, but the playoff picture is not much clearer now than it was before the weekend began. For the first time in weeks, four teams from the Western Conference would make the postseason if it started today.
* Columbus has now moved eight points clear in the race for the Supporters Shield and could clinch the trophy given to the team with the regular season's best record as soon as this weekend if a host of other results fall their way.

Chivas USA-Wizards Post-Game

2008-09-28T09:08:14+00:00

Here are the results that mattered Saturday for Chivas USA:
Chivas USA 2 Kansas City Wizards 1
Houston Dynamo 1 Toronto FC 1
Colorado Rapids 5 Red Bull New York 4
Real Salt Lake 3 San Jose Earthquakes 2
Dallas plays D.C. United at noon Sunday
(Just for the sake of completeness, Sigi Schmid's Columbus Crew beat the New England Revolution, 1-0, and lead the league.