Holding The High Line, a Colorado Rapids Podcast

Hello Colorado Rapids fans! Surprise, we have an episode during the international break! The week before Labor Day, Red spoke with Federico from MLS Soccer Italia about the Pids. We discuss the team's tremendous turnaround from 2023 to 2024. We also talk supporters culture, DICK's and more given the Pids are an MLS original and paved the way for MLS expansion teams from tomorrow.

Most of this information you already know. But it's refreshing to hear that someone new to the league and looking at it from a European perspective sees the value in the Rapids and wants to learn more. Enjoy.

Also, here's that episode with legendary Italian Rapids fans, Lino De Rosa.

Hello Colorado Rapids fans. This week on Holding The High Line, it's the international break. Also Red's going on the engineering equivalent of international duty. The guys talk about that Darren Yapi winner among other things.

Rabbi and Red banter about quidditch and soccer team names. We do Good Thing, Bad Thing, Big Thing on the win over FC Dallas. It was a lot of meh and a game of moments. Leagues Cup energy for sure for the Burgundy Boys.

Then we preview the home match against Portland Timbers. That will be after the international break. Do the Timbers own the Rapids? Are they their Kryptonite along with LAFC? Or does this just come down to who the hope team is?

We finish talking the Zack Steffen USMNT snub?

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Hello Colorado Rapids fans. This week on Holding The High Line, MLS is back! Happy Birthday Chris Armas! Rabbi and Red recap how the Pids found a way to beat Philadelphia Union. How about Zack Steffen best goalkeeper?

We discuss the game of two halves, big goals from Oli Larraz and Calvin Harris. Then of course, the penalty shoot out. Mark talks about what it means that the Pids are back in the Concacaf Champions Cup.

Then we talk FC Dallas. They've gotten a new coach bump but got grouped in Leagues Cup. There's some injuries to consider. Weird things happen in Frisco, Texas and weird things happen on Phish Dick's weekend.

Also, Matt shaved his head.

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Hello Colorado Rapids fans. On this episode of Holding The High Line, Rabbi and Red are masculine melancholy. The Pids lost at LAFC again, this time 4-0. We recap this Leagues Cup Semifinal. Then we have a Leagues Cup Third Place preview.

Mark has a voice note on that 4-0 loss to LAFC with some group therapy recommendations. Red discusses how Leagues Cup has been productive and successful regardless what happens this week. Then we look ahead to a beatable Philadelphia Union. Concacaf Champions Cup is still in reach. This LC run has been uplifting and fun. Can the Pids make it competitively significant?

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Hello Colorado Rapids fans and UP THE ****ING PIDS! This week on Holding The High Line, THE RAPIDS beat Club America! Rabbi and Red banter about Moïse Bombito officially going OGC Nice. Check out our special exit interview with Moïse here.

Then we bask in the joy of that win over America. The game plan worked and the players executed it very well. Colorado still played like the smaller team at times. It was another 50/50 game they found a way to win. We relive the penalties heroics from Zack Steffen AGAIN. Liga MX fans are coping and maybe finally seeing the excuses MLS fans made for years during the Conca Champions.

They we've got a really good Ask HTHL on comparing Chris Armas to Coach Lasso. We preview LAFC as Colorado look to get their first ever result at BMO Stadium. Kei Kamara is still there. Olivier Giroud is available. There could be no more fitting test for the Rapids than to finally go on the road to the black and gold and try and win. They've played six road games against LAFC and lost all of them. Total score 17-2. Perhaps this is the way that streak has to end? One final exorcism to make their first final since 2010?

Also we do a Rapids history side quest. Here's the link to that World Soccer Talk article.

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Hello Colorado Rapids fans. It's a bittersweet day. The club has confirmed Moïse Bombito has officially transferred to OGC Nice in France. We put together an anthology of interviews from Bombi's time at the club to reminisce on his journey. The episode ends with the Moïse Bombito Exit Interview set up by the club. See the time stamps below for detains on which interviews are when in this podcast.

4′: Post-SuperDraft Interview with Matt Pollard. Previously featured on HTHL.

14′: A phone call with Brendan Ploen, then of the Denver Post and Matt Pollard upon his first callus with Canada. We discuss his pre-Rapids soccer journey.

33′: The LAFC postgame presser. He scored on his birthday with his mom in attendance. Colorado won 3-2.

39′: Exclusive interview the morning of the second leg of the Rocky Mountain Cup.

46′: Post-training interview, his first media availability after Copa America and the MLS All-Star Game.

54′: Rapids Exit Interview.

Hello Colorado Rapids fans! This week on Holding The High Line a second Darren Yapi goal has gotten the Rapids to a Leagues Cup quarterfinals. We banter about the return of the Premier League and the USMNT reportedly hiring Mauricio Pochettino. Then we talk Leagues Cup. The guys discuss the standout performances, issues, and big things from that 2-1 win over Toluca.

Then we discuss that Moïse Bombito transfer. Matt's got some scoops on the details of the move. We break down what this means for the Rapids the rest of this season, Bombito going forward, and the finances. Then we transition into talking the greater Rapids transfer window which was too quiet. They've known about the needs at center mid and winger for weeks. Yet they made no movies.

Lastly, Mark's got the scouting report on Club America. Oh and here's Matt's feature on Oli Larraz if you haven't read it.

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Hello Colorado Rapids fans! On this episode of Holding The High Line, Red does a solo pod after swimming in the Colorado River. The USWNT won Olympic gold against Brazil, in no small part due to the Colorado trio. Matt breaks down the good, the bad, and the big from Friday's win over FC Juárez.

Then we look ahead to Deportivo Toluca on Tuesday. These aren't the same teams that played last year in the group stage of Leagues Cup. This will still be a tough matchup. We have info on the scenarios for the quarterfinals and beyond as well. Then Matt has some thoughts on the latest Moïse Bombito Nice rumor.

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Hello Colorado Rapids fans. This week on Holding The High Line, the Colorado Rapids actually won a knockout game. Rabbi and Red discuss the quiet Rapids transfer window. We banter about the USWNT and USMNT at the Olympics and more.

Rabbi has thoughts on that loss against Portland Timbers and what it says about the team this season. Then we recap that wild game against Club León. It was a mixed but positive performance. Really good ending for Djordje Mihailović and Zack Steffen. and in penalties no less. Then we look ahead to FC Juárez.

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