Playoffs in Profile: Decisions have defined Rapids' Moor
Business CITY, Colo. – There are a number of “what-ifs” scattered throughout Drew Moor’s soccer vocation — moments when he either had control of his fate or he never even stood a chance.
What if, for example, he didn’t weigh 163 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner? If he weighed something more like a prototypical center back at 185 or 195 pounds, then would someone for all time give him a real shot at the US national team?
Or consider the trade from FC Dallas. Let’s say Schellas Hyndman doesn’t call Moor into the bus’s office in 2009 and inform him that Colorado has signed off on the deal, sending Ugo Ihemelu to Dallas and bringing Moor to Denver. Would Moor still be an MLS Cup victor?
And what if Moor’s father didn’t get the chance to wake him up with a frantic phone call on a conceivably harmless Friday morning in October 2002? What if Moor hadn’t been there to answer, because he’d made the uninvolved choice to pile into a car with his buddies that eventually spilled onto the highway in South Carolina and killed his cocker?
