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February 19th, 2007

Bradley Selects Three Rapids for U-23 National Team

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Keeper Justin Hughes, defender Hunter Freeman (didn’t he install my drapes?), and forward Jacob Peterson all made the Under-23 team to play in a two-game tour in Japan. Good for them!

Category Category: Team News


February 16th, 2007

Calling All Cheerleaders

By: Clint | Comments 5 Comments

For the thousands of you who live in the Denver area and have been waiting your entire lives to be a cheerleader for a professional soccer club, here’s your big shot!
“The Colorado Rapids announced today that the team will host their annual open tryouts for the 2007 Colorado Rapids Cheerleading Squad on Saturday, February 24th.
The [...]

Category Category: Team News
February 16th, 2007

Rapids to Play Exhibition Match vs. Valencia

By: Clint | Comments 1 Comment

In addition to pre-season training in Mexico, the Rapids will be traveling to London in March to train at Arsenal’s facilities, then moving down to Spain for more training and an exhibition match vs. six-time Spanish champions, Valencia (on March 21). This practice of traveling to other countries for friendlies (that word does more to [...]

Category Category: Team News
February 15th, 2007

Where Are They Now?

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Since I’m way behind-the-times, I play the 01/02 version of Championship Manager (well, I also play it because it’s still the best version ever made). Looking back at the 01/02 Rapids roster made me wonder where some of those players ended up. Here is a sampling of what I found:

Scott Garlick (GK) - Traded to [...]

Category Category: Team News
February 15th, 2007

Dick’s Sporting Goods Park

By: Clint | Comments 6 Comments

To paraphrase from Woody Paige, it’ll be interesting to hear the nicknames for this stadium.
Despite the rather unfortunate name, this sounds like a soccer fan’s dream scenario. It seats 18,000 which is enough to make finding a ticket easy, but still small enough to have good atmosphere and, I’m guessing, there will be great views [...]

Category Category: Team News


February 15th, 2007

Catch Up on the Rapids

By: Clint | Comments 1 Comment

As this is the first post for the Colorado Rapids blog, let’s catch up a bit…

The Rapids announced their new logo, unis, and team colors. A very nice, modern, and dare I say metropolitan look! Especially when compared with the “dinosaur font”/vomit color scheme used previously.
In what must be one of the most fan-friendly openings [...]

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