Filed under: MLS, Colorado Rapids, FC Dallas, Los Angeles Galaxy, San Jose Earthquakes
An MLS Eastern Conference Final that featured so many open looks at goal for both teams was settled by a lucky, one-in-a-million strike from a player whose MLS career has been anything but conventional.
The Colorado Rapids will play for the MLS Cup championship for the first time since 1997 thanks to a 43rd-minute cross from right back Kosuke Kimura that was hit too perfectly.
It bedeviled both its intended target, striker Omar Cummings, and San Jose Earthquakes goalkeeper Jon Busch (see photo), and was enough to lift the hosts to a 1-0 win at freezing Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Saturday night.
Colorado (14-9-10) will play for its first league title against either the Los Angeles Galaxy or FC Dallas on Nov. 21 in Toronto. The Rapids are the only MLS club established prior to 2000 that has not played in either an MLS Cup or U.S. Open Cup Final in the 21st century. That streak will end next weekend.
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