PODCAST – Hello Colorado Rapids fans! This week on Holding The High Line, it’s The Great Diego Rubio Debate! Rabbi and Red discuss the updated MLS CBA news and the final list of potential host cities for the 2026 World Cup. Then Mark and Matt have our much anticipated Diego Rubio debate. How big of a deal is it that Rubio doesn’t score lots of goals? What else does he do well that matter for the Rapids? What will his 2021 look like and how will that affect the success of the club?
Colorado Rapids Podcast: Diego Rubio Debate
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Matt Pollard is the Site Manager for Last Word on Soccer and an engineer by day. A Colorado Convert, he started covering the Colorado Rapids as a credentialed member of the press in 2016, though he’s watched MLS since ’96. When he’s not watching or writing about soccer, he’s being an outdoorsman (mostly skiing and hiking) in this beautiful state or trying a new beer. For some reason, he thought that starting a podcast with Mark was a good idea and he can’t figure out how to stop this madness. He also hosts Last Word SC Radio.
Mark Goodman, the artist formally known as Rapids Rabbi, moved to Colorado in 2011. Shortly thereafter he went to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, saw Lee Nguyen dribble a ball with the silky smoothness of liquid chocolate cascading into a Bar Mitzvah fountain, and promptly fell head over heels in love with domestic soccer. When not watching soccer or coaching his son’s U-8 team, he’s generally studying either Talmud or medieval biblical exegesis. Which explains why he watches so much MLS, probably. Having relocated to Pittsburgh in 2019, he covers the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL for Pittsburgh Soccer Now.
