Rapids’ Preseason Trip to the Islands

This week the Rapids preseason takes them on an adventure to an island far away, one filled with wonderful beaches and beautiful people. The Rapids will play in this season’s Hawaiian Islands Invitational, with teams from four different countries. The club will face the Japanese side Yokahama FC on Thursday for the first match of the tournament. The club will then play either Melbourne (Australia) or Busan (S. Korea) on Saturday, February 25th. You can watch both of those matches on ESPN3.

A True #10 for Colorado? A Report from the Rapids’ Supporters Forum

(No, not him.)

That’s right folks, the Rapids are closing in on signing a young play maker from Argentina. One that will fit Oscar’s new vision of the club. This player was mentioned to have the ability to play the flanks (although in my formation below I show what I’d prefer). So we could very well see:

————–Wynne——Moor—————-
Kimura——————————–Freeman
——–Jeff L—————-Pablo M———-
——————-#10————————
Omar———————————Castrillon
——————-Casey———————-

It would be interesting to see where certain players from the past season fit in, players like Wells Thompson and Caleb Folan (who recently has been rumored as a possible move*). Folan doesn’t seem to be on good ground ready to start the pre-season as he hasn’t attended any training sessions with the club and is still overseas. Earlier this week club officials said they care about the players attending training, and aren’t worried about anyone else. 

Colorado Rapids Training Camp & Roster

The preseason for the Rapids officially got started this week. Players reported to team headquarters for their physicals today, after the jump are the Rapids’ preseason plans.