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Colorado Rapids’ hiring of Robin Fraser speaks to greater goal. “The evolution, it’s come forward.”

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COMMERCE CITY — The Colorado Rapids have higher hopes than winning games and aiming for an MLS Cup. The organization’s ambitions lie in one long-term goal: grow the sport of soccer in Colorado.

Robin Fraser, their freshly minted head coach introduced Tuesday, has been a grassroots leader of Denver’s soccer community in the past. A member of the Colorado Foxes and later the Rapids, the 52-year-old considers himself a Coloradan.

“This is the first place I’ve ever lived outside of Miami,” said the Jamaican-born Fraser, who was most recently an assistant coach for Toronto F.