COMMERCE CITY — With his playing career winding down last season as a seldom-used striker for the Columbus Crew, Conor Casey began to think more and more about coaching. The Rapids’ all-time leading scorer took a U.S. Soccer Federation coaching course and contacted his hometown club to see if there might be a position for him this year.
“I put out some feelers,” said Casey, a Denver South High School graduate who retired last fall after 10 seasons in Major League Soccer, six with the Rapids. “I wasn’t really sure exactly what that would look like, but then John Spencer left and that all kind of came together.