Less than two years after the club made the head-scratching decision to hire him, Anthony Hudson is out as head coach of the Colorado Rapids. His disastrous tenure officially came to a close on Wednesday, as the club announced that they’d fired the 37-year-old days after they dropped to 0-7-2 on the season; the worst record in MLS.



It speaks volumes that Colorado’s Hudson era will be most remembered for the extraordinary comments he made following the team’s loss at Atlanta on Saturday. He viciously slammed his own team and club ownership, telling reporters that the Rapids “are fighting at the bottom with a bottom group of players.” That he wasn’t entirely wrong doesn’t excuse him. Hudson, who came to Colorado after three years coaching the New Zealand national team and without any meaningful experience on the club level, inherited a tough situation in Colorado. He made it undeniably worse.



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