Dominique Badji is in his fourth season at the Colorado Rapids, having been drafted by the club in 2015. In this week's Rapids Podcast, the 25-year-old striker is taken back to the very beginning of his love affair with soccer.

Co-hosts Richard Fleming and Marcelo Balboa also caught up with former player, Ross Paule, the club's MVP in 1998 and someone forced to walk away from the game due to concussion.

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