August 02, 2007
Carrieri's Revenge: Meet Daniel Osorno
Separated at birth, Orsono & Chris Carrieri
are finally reunited with the Rapids!
Please welcome our newest addition to the revolving door known as our team. (hint: he's the one on the left)
Oh, sure, he's one of 15 new faces (out of a possible 28) and sure, we've said goodbye to an additional 18 in the past ear, but I think Daniel Orsono is going to be something special!
First of all, he wasn't introduced with a cool madwhack nickname like El Bombardero, which was, like, in another language or sumpin'.
Second, he's an absolute twin for the hard-working Chris Carrieri. Both are John Spencer short, have the same jawline and hair, and both have 56 caps and 12 goals for the Mexican National Team. Okay, I'm kidding about the jawline.
As we all know, "hard-working" and "El Bombardero" went together like chocolate and broccoli.
Third, apparently he can score. At least at the national level.
And don't kid yourselves. The Rapids couldn't score if you paid them right now.
Just for fun, let's look back at what Fernando Clavijo (our next ex-coach of the Rapids) had to say about our last international forward signed, Roberto Brown, in Soccer America magazine.
''His addition to the offensive line will help solve the scoring drought issues from last season,'' said Colorado coach Fernando Clavijo."
In the official Rapids press release on the signing of Osorno, apparently Clavijo wasn't allowed to talk, or I'm guessing he would have said something like:
''His addition to the offensive line will help solve the scoring drought issues from this season,'' said Colorado coach Fernando Clavijo."
What else do we know about Osorno?
He's "working his way into fitness" said a highly confidential source. Apparently he's not match fit, which actually doesn't bug me. Of course he's not -- he hasn't been playing match-level games!
Second, he's been training with the Rapids for close to 4 weeks now, and just finally announced.
Finally, he had some time on the field with the Rapids in their recent game against the Rapids U-23 team (Boulder).
And again, and I can't emphasize this enough, it's nice to see Chris back on the team.
Welcome Daniel "Carrieri" Osorno!
Posted by BilFish at August 2, 2007 01:23 PM