Burgundy Wave: Covering Colorado Soccer since July 2010.
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Moรฏse Bombito Red Card and a Missed Penalty Spoils Return Home
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – Colorado Rapids returned home on Saturday night to play San Jose Earthquakes. The Pids had lost six games in a row. The Quakes were coming off a smash and grab 1-0 win at Seattle. Moรฏse Bombito was itching for his first MLS start at home. He was energetic, clean defensively, and…
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Club Comment on that Inside Rapids Twitter Thread: MLS in Dialogue on Colorado Rapids Facility Renovations
Most Colorado Rapids fans have probably seen this Twitter thread from Inside Rapids, an anonymous fan account that’s accurately broken club news several times over the last few years. On Tuesday, May 30, the account posted about MLS encouraging or even mandating the Colorado Rapids upgrade the infrastructure at DICK’s Sporting Goods Park. Players have…
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Six Straight Ls: Colorado Rapids Blow Lead at Columbus Crew, Lose 3-2
The Colorado Rapids needed something to go right. Coming off five straight losses, they traveled to Columbus Crew for a Wednesday night game. Colorado again had nine players unavailable. Marko Iliฤ and Moรฏse Bombito made their first starts in MLS. Sam Nicholson and Bryan Acosta brought energy back from suspension for yellow card accumulation. They…
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Podcast: Colorado Rapids Open Cup Loss
This week on Holding The High Line, we banter about the Open Cup and end of (most of) the league seasons in Europa. The boys recap the Rapids Open Cup loss and the storm that was FC Cincinnati on Saturday. Red explains why he did not even watch the RSL Open Cup match. We give…
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Dark Clouds: Dom Badji Scores to Down Rapids
Dark clouds descended on DICK’s Sporting Goods Park on Saturday night as Colorado Rapids hosted FC Cincinnati. The Front Range got all the spring storm weather. Lightning was visible from the stadium several times in the first half. Coming off two loses in one week to Real Salt Lake, could the Colorado withstand the storm?…
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Highlands Ranch’s Ethan Horvath wins Promotion to Premier League Again
For the second year in a row, Ethan Horvath has won promotion to the Premier League at Wembley Stadium. The USMNT goalkeeper stood in net at Luton Town went to penalties in the EFL Championship Playoff Final, winning the richest game in world football. Horvath is originally from Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He had an interesting…
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Rapids Drop Out of the U.S. Open Cup as the Misery Piles On
2023 is suddenly looking bleak for the Colorado Rapids, as they were unable to overcome Real Salt Lake yet again. The U.S. Open Cup was a tournament that Colorado had publicly prioritized, and crashing out to their bitter rivals will do little to convince fans that a turnaround is imminent. Robin Fraser opted to make…
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U.S. Men’s Youth National Team levels Fiji 3-O at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup Tournamentย
The Under-20 U.S. Men’s Youth National Team (USYNT) found their mojo in the second half of their second outing in Group B at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup Tournament, when they scored three times defeated a stubborn Fiji Team, 3-0. The rising Yanks dominated the showdown by out possessed Fiji 78% to 22%. They unleashed…
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Podcast: Rocky Mountain Cup Defeat
Hey Rapids fans. This week on HTHL, all is not well for the Colorado Rapids. This episode is a mess. Apologies. Rabbi and Red banter about the end of the European season and the NBA Playoffs. We try to make sense of the predicable mess that was Saturday’s Rocky Mountain Cup defeat against RSL. Matt…
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Colorado Rapids Drop First Rocky Mountain Cup Game of 2023 Because of Course They Do
Colorado Rapids hosted Real Salt Lake in the first of at least four Rocky Mountain Cup games in 2023 on Saturday night. It went exactly how you expected, because of course it did. Head Coach Robin Fraser was almost as a loss for words after the match. The Pids season is at a tipping point,…
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