The actual Colorado Rapids have only four home games remaining inside the MLS regular season, and as the dates dwindle, The Tuesday List takes a look at how the roster has changed since the team moved to Dick's Sporting Goods Park for that 2007 season.
Looking at the 2011 roster, we go back in time to who was here in every single previous seasons. We looked at who was on the roster towards the end of the season and remains today.
2007 Roster: Conor Casey*, Omar Cummings, Pablo Mastroeni, Kosuke Kimura
'08 Roster: Casey, Cummings, Mastroeni, Kimura
2009 Roster: Casey, Cummings, Mastroeni, Kimura, Drew Moor*, Jamie Cruz, Scott Palguta, Matt Pickens, Steward Ceus
2010 Roster: Casey, Cummings, Mastroeni, Kimura, Moor, Cruz, Palguta, Pickens, Ceus, Jeff Larentowicz, Brian Mullan*, Wells Thompson, Macomba Kandji*, Quincy Amarikwa*, Anthony Wallace*, Andre Akpan, Danny Earls, Ian Joyce, Ross LaBauex, Marvell Wynne, Davy Armstrong
*Joined the team over the season.
cheap Authentic jerseysSo, what does this list tell us? Soccer is a volatile sport, especially when you aren't winning. Only three current players Cummings, Mastroeni and Kimura were on the roster when DSG Park opened 4 1/2 years ago. Only Mastroeni was a regular on the field, with Cummings making 11 appearances as a substitute and Kimura starting four games for an erratic defense that season. Add Casey from Toronto FC during 2007, and
cheap jerseys from chinathose four are the quartet of Rapids that started the DSG era.
It also tells us that while the actual team was missing the playoffs in '07, '08 as well as '09, it was only in that 2009 season that the side started to come together. Looking at the participants who came and went, '08 was as dismal because it seemed. Fernando Clavijo departed as coach two-thirds of the way through the season and Gary Smith took over. Only the Casey-Cummings-Mastroeni-Kimura quartet continued with the depths of '08 to the heights of the 2010 MLS Cup and beyond.
In '09, the team included two starters Pickens and Moor and
soccer jerseys wholesale a third, Smith, who would start if not for nagging injuries. In '10, the team added starters in Larentowicz, Mullan and Wynne, with Thompson, Earls and Wallace all seeing significant minutes.
Just in how that a season is fleeting, so is time for the field for Rapids players. Now, Kimura is a constant at back, Cummings is flourishing after early season injuries, Casey is otherwise engaged for the season with a ruptured Achilles tendon, as well as Mastroeni
soccer jerseys wholesalecontinues to turn back time as he approaches his 35th birthday on Aug. 29.
So, The Tuesday List wants you to remember these names since you never know how many more times you'll see them for the field.
