Colorado Has a New Player

By: Clint | August 2nd, 2007

Meet former Mexican national team forward Daniel Osorno.

I know absolutely nothing about Daniel other than the blurb I just read online. He last played for CF Atlas in Mexico’s first division, scoring 61 goals for the club in 278 games. He scored 12 goals in 56 appearances for Mexico.

Osorno played with Atlas from 1997-2003, was loaned out to Monterey for the 2003-04 season, and then went back to Atlas from 2004-07.

He’ll be available for the match vs. Dallas, where the Rapids will try to win their first MLS game in the last 87 weeks.

As for DP spots, it doesn’t look like Colorado will ever splash the cash on a has-been from Europe anytime soon. Every time a name does come up on a forum or blog I have to remind myself that the least trustworthy source is an online message board. Scratch that, the least trustworthy source of any information is a message board post that begins “I think…”

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• James |  August 2nd, 2007 at 12:39 pm

  
  
  

  Osorno is a good player with nice individual skills. He seems like he might be past his prime though , but that was because he was benched for most of the last season. I hope he does well.

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• Clint |  August 2nd, 2007 at 1:05 pm

  
  
  

  That’s good news! Anytime a player comes in and isn’t met with violent barfing sounds by the fans is a good sign. There is a severe lack of players who can beat their defender(s) or can set up a play near goal, so hopefully Osorno can either assist in that dept or make himself a better target in the box than guys like Brown have been this season.

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• Bob |  August 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm

  
  
  

  He can’t be worse then the current guys. Or can he?

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• Allen |  August 2nd, 2007 at 8:30 pm

  
  
  

  The Rapids are scarred to spend money on most anything, let alone a DP.

  As for Osorno, I don’t have a lot of hope for him in 2007. He showed up a tad overweight and hasn’t exactly lit things up since he had some serious injuries a few years back.

  As for the fans not giving out big boos on the signing, we can’t because we really don’t know much about this guy. My fear is that he’s going to turn out to be the Mexican Mathis. And we all know how well things went for Cleatus during his time with the Rapids.

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• Clint |  August 3rd, 2007 at 9:58 am

  
  
  

  Cool, the mohawk might come into fashion again!

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• Dave Martinez |  August 3rd, 2007 at 3:28 pm

  
  
  

  Mohawks are cool . . .

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