The 2017 Colorado Rapids, a bad soccer team that played mostly bad soccer for eight futile months, was laid to rest on a plastic soccer field in Seattle, Washington Saturday afternoon. And most fans can agree: the end could not have come soon enough.
The cause of death was a combination of many factors, but included; anemic offensive production, injuries to key players, a total breakdown by a rotating cast of left backs, an absence of pass-making and play-making out of midfield, below-average performance at the wings, the notable physical decline of their once-impermeable goalkeeper, an awful early-season trade, a failed mid-year attempt to revamp the team’s tactical identity, and an overall…
