Bouna Coundoul of Colorado in Major League Soccer (USA) has his critics who say that he is "too flashy" and that he has "butterfingers" and he also has avid fans and supporters who claim his flamboyance makes the game we love so much - football - a joy to behold. Have a watch of Coundoul in [...]SHARETHIS. Click to continue reading...

If you look at the Colorado Rapids website, you'll see this weekend's projected formation lined up looking like some Roman gladiators. The formation is listed as basically two lines of four and five in defense and midfield with lone striker,Conor Casey, up front. Here is the link to the website. Click to continue reading...

Mixed fortunes for the Colorado Rapids players representing their national teams yesterday in various parts of the world. Pablo Mastroeni played 78 minutes for the US team as they defeated Guatemala 1-0 in Guatemala City in their first World Cup qualifying game of this next stage. Click to continue reading...

Bouna Coundoul, Pablo Mastroeni and Omar Cummings have all been called up for their respective national teams for international fixtures next week. Bouna will be off to Tripoli for a Senegal friendly against Libya while Cummings and Mastroeni will represent their countries in World Cup qualifiers against Canada and Guatemala respectively. Click to continue reading...

He didn't come, he didn't see and he certainly didn't conquer. The Colorado Rapids today traded college midfielder, Bruno Guarda, to FC Dallas. In return, they received multiple draft picks and an undisclosed allocation. The Rapids picked up Guarda in the MLS lottery last week and the much vaunted SMU star immediately became the subject of many approaches from other teams. Click to continue reading...

Senegal scratched to a disappointing 0-0 draw with Gambia at the weekend in their latest World Cup qualifying game and the Rapids' Bouna Coundoul was nowhere to be seen. Nobody could have expected Bouna to walk into the national team this time around but what has made it worse is that veteran goalkeeper, Tony Sylva, has now been chosen to captain the side. Click to continue reading...

Colorado Rapids 2-1 Dallas: I can't believe it, but I never did post a comment on the game last Sunday, and it was a beaut'. The Rapids used their normal relentless style of play, but also slipped one in in the 6th just for good measure. If Tom keeps scoring like that, the Rapids will be unstoppable.

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Chivas USA is not a bad club. At least they're not a bad club like Houston and San Jose are bad clubs. They are superbly average. When Chicago's or even Houston's midfield is setting up an attack, I get nervous, but not so with Chivas USA. That is, with one exception: Kljestan. That kid is the only part of the Chivas lineup that's dangerous.

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The big problem down the road for the Rapids: their keeper is too darn good. Bouna is going to Senegal to help his country qualify for the World Cup. This was bound to happen, as Bouna got his first cap last summer in the African Cup of Nations and Senegal's manager was impressed with his performance (and it's hard not to be, for whomever he plays).

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One of the best problems a soccer team can have is having too many good players to field them all. That, and the ability to adapt the line-up to different opponents, is a sign of a good soccer team. The Rapids have both.

The biggest question on my mind as we await the game against Houston (with much anticipation, by the way) is who will be starting.

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The Official Organ larded their weekly update with happy statistics: there's Bouna Coundoul's goals-against average; Terry Cooke tied for the league lead on assists; seven goals scored by seven different players, etc. By the way, those seven goals not only ties the Rapids with conference rivals Chivas USA in .

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1. Kyle Beckerman Someone pinch this guy. Two goals, one a possible goal of the week, against a revamped D.C. United squad that looked helpless at the machinations of a fluid RSL attack. Beckerman was overwhelmingly the reason for that. He won balls in the midfield, showed near-perfect passing abilities, and never let up. Click to continue reading...

Name me one category in which the Colorado Rapids topped the New England Revolution. OK, defending...obviously. In spite of what I'll call "full-spectrum dominance," New England simply could not manage a clean shot over the full 90; on the occasions when they did, Bouna (Time!) Coundoul played the .

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Just when I thought I could get away with one post today, the Major League Soccer Players' Union goes and releases the salary numbers...commie bastards...

Having rambled way down below - they say people resort to verbosity to cloak ignorance, y'know - I'll keep things short here. I can handle .

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I read somewhere that Colorado Rapids head coach Fernando Clavijo made building a solid defensive corps his top priority for 2007 (here? Yep; it's toward the bottom). I'll leave it to others to explain how taking care of half of the overall equation brought to fruition Clavijo's "Three-Year Plan," but the numbers argue he succeeded in that specific aim: after surrendering 49 goals in 2006, and too often in bunches, the Rapids allowed a stingy 34 goals through 30 regular season games in '07.

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With the African Nations Cup about to begin, Those of us at USA Soccer Spot would like to wish the lone MLS participant, Colorado Rapids Goalkeeper Bouna Coundoul the best of luck. Coundoul whose emergence as a top keeper made Joe Cannon expendable for the Rapids is representing his native nation Senegal in the Cup. Click to continue reading...

Colorado Rapids Record (W-L-T): 9-13-8; 29 GF; 34 GA Source Material: Schedule/match reports Overview It seems fitting somehow that I should approach a review of the Colorado Rapids 2007 in the same almost aggressively feckless manner in which that team's front office runs the team - e.g. not reading the match reports, but operating from memory. Click to continue reading...