Backpass: The rise of Rapids’ Dillon Serna

Colorado Rapids’ Dillon Serna, right, clears the ball as Sporting Kansas City in this 2016, in Commerce City.To watch Dillon Serna is to witness a kind of frenetic precision. His movement is so quick, from his stutter steps to his step-overs and his changes of direction, that it sometimes feels like he’s been put into a turn-of-the-century silent film, moving at 1.5x speed, while everything else is still going at a medium pace.

Supporters of the Colorado Rapids have been telling everyone they could get a hold of “Hey! This Serna kid is good!” since he was signed to a homegrown contract in 2013, just after his freshman year at the University of Akron. Fans love him because of his classic…