MLS: Three Colorado Rapids to Breakout in 2008

I love soccer.  I love the US.  I love US soccer.  I would be telling a fib if I thought MLS was the top league in the world.  There's constant debate as to where MLS ranks in the greater scheme of the game.  I don't care.  I tweak a few feeling now and then on the subject, but I do not care. MLS is like College Basketball.  You don't watch it because it has the best players in the world or the US. You watch it because you get to see the emergence of players.  It is fun to know that I was there cheering Marcus Hahnemann on and thinking he was good when people were claiming he was not all that good, because he was not in Europe.  Now people think he has improved at a tremendous rate while in England.  In fact he was always good, we knew it when he played for the Rapids. Nat Borchers is similar.   Few players get much recognition for playing with a mid-tier MLS team with a history of playing boring negative soccer.  Journeymen on good ... [link]