The Rapids have been called the 2016 MLS version Leceister City. Let’s turn the tables and ask: who is this year’s Colorado Rapids in the Premier League?
The long and glorious English Premier League season began Saturday. We may never see an EPL season as surprising as last year’s, when frequent mid-and-lower-table resident Leicester City powered themselves to the championship, with the remarkable seasons of N’golo Kante, Riyad Mahrez, Wes Morgan, and Jamie Vardy.
Early in the 2016 Major League Soccer season, the surprising performance of the Colorado Rapids was compared favorably to the successful run of Leicester that nobody expected.