{"id":49145,"date":"2024-01-31T23:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/?p=49145"},"modified":"2024-01-31T23:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:30:04","slug":"colorado-rapids-marcelo-balboa-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/2024\/01\/31\/colorado-rapids-marcelo-balboa-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding The High Line: Marcelo Balboa Derby in Leagues Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PODCAST<\/strong> &#8211; Holding The High Line podcasts to discuss the breaking Lamine Diack news. We discuss some player departures and some pending ones as well as check in on the club&#8217;s preseason down in Mexico. How about that 5-1 win over Quer\u00e9taro FC? We are very excited about the Colorado Rapids hosting Club Le\u00f3n in what we are dubbing the Marcelo Balboa Derby. There&#8217;s plenty of news to discuss including Lamine Diack about to be confirmed on loan, Darren Yapi being back maybe, and more potential player departures.<\/p>\n<h2>Holding The High Line: Marcelo Balboa Derby in Leagues Cup<\/h2>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.bleav.com\/?episode=e2d3f019-658a-4323-a96f-2748d9cbe284\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>About Us:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/author\/matt-pollard-featured-columnist\/\" target=\"_self\">Matt Pollard<\/a> is an editor 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\u2019s watched MLS since \u201996. When he\u2019s not watching or writing about soccer, he\u2019s 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\u2019t figure out how to stop this madness. He also hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/tag\/last-word-sc-radio\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word SC Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbimarkashergoodman.com\/soccer_rabbi\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Goodman<\/a>, the artist formally known as <em>Rapids Rabbi<\/em>, moved to Colorado in 2011. Shortly thereafter he went to Dick\u2019s 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\u2019s U-8 team, he\u2019s generally studying either Talmud or medieval biblical exegesis. Which explains why he watches so much MLS, probably. Having relocated to Pittsburgh in 2017, he covers the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of the USL for <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghsoccernow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pittsburgh Soccer Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Credit: Mark Shaiken, Last Word on Soccer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PODCAST &#8211; Holding The High Line podcasts to discuss the breaking Lamine Diack news. We discuss some player departures and some pending ones as well as check in on the club&#8217;s preseason down in Mexico. How about that 5-1 win over Quer\u00e9taro FC? We are very excited about the Colorado Rapids hosting Club Le\u00f3n in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1044,"featured_media":49147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1081,119,3,42],"tags":[1653,3207,3521],"class_list":["post-49145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rapids","category-liga-mx","category-mls","category-news","category-podcasts","tag-holding-the-high-line","tag-leagues-cup","tag-marcelo-balboa"],"modified_by":"Matt Pollard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/soccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}