Pablo Out For 6 Weeks

Yesterday the team announced that Mastroeni has been advised by doctors to take at least 6 weeks off before attempting to play again.  Because of this he'll be going on the DL, the soonest he'll be able to play would be the May 19th home game against KC.

In unrelated news the Reserves beat the Fire Reserves 2-1 yesterday.  The only non-rostered player to play for the Rapids was Academy player Dillon Serna.

Rivero And Reserves Update

The Rapids have now gotten FIFA involved in their roadblock of Rivero's International Transfer Certificate.  FIFA has given the Argentinian FA (and Rivero's old team Rosario Central) a deadline to deliver the ITC to US Soccer.  If they don't comply FIFA will provisionally clear Rivero to play for Colorado without it.  The deadline hasn't been made public but the Rapids seem optimistic that Rivero will be cleared to play it time for Sunday's game.

Today the reserve team had their second game of the short 10-game reserve season, hosting Dallas at the Dick. They ended up once again losing 1-0 on a late goal.  Along with trialists Edu and Kamani Hill they were joined by trialist Franco Donado, a Colombian holding midfielder who didn't get a chance to get into today's game.  Edu and Hill started the game and Academy player Dillon Serna got 17 minutes as well.

Reserves Update

Colorado's reserves traveled to Houston yesterday for a game this morning.  I don't cover reserve games very much here, mainly because the focus of the reserves isn't winning games so much as getting players ready for the first team.  in this case the Rapids lost 1-0 on a late goal, but the reason I mention the game is that Edu got the start for the team.  Apparently the coaching staff is still interested in him.  There was also news today that former U.S. international forward Kamani Hill and former FC Dallas midfielder Scott Jones are in camp.

For the last 5+ years Hill has been with Wolfburg in Germany and Aves in Portugal, but he's only played 20 games with their first teams.  He's also had 3 caps for the U.S. National Team.  Jones was with Dallas for one season in 2007, playing no first-team games, and has since been with the USL Puerto Rico Islanders.  He's also played with the Puerto Rico National Team.