{"id":44640,"date":"2022-01-07T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44640"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T02:35:00","slug":"steven-beitashour-re-signs-with-colorado-rapids-through-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/07\/steven-beitashour-re-signs-with-colorado-rapids-through-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Beitashour re-signs with Colorado Rapids through 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mlssoccer.com &#8211; COLORADO, <strong>The\u00a0Colorado Rapids\u00a0have re-signed fullback\u00a0Steven Beitashour\u00a0after he entered free agency, the 2021 Western Conference regular-season champions announced Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beitashour, 34, re-joins through the 2022 MLS season with an option for 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSteven is one of the most decorated and experienced defenders in our league,\u201d Rapids executive VP &amp; general manager P\u00e1draig Smith said in a release. \u201cHis leadership and versatility contributed greatly to our conference-topping season in 2021 and we look forward to welcoming him back for another year in Burgundy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Iran international has competed in MLS since 2010. He has scored five times and dished out 38 assists across 258 regular-season games (246 starts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beitashour originally signed with Colorado in September 2020. He began his MLS career with the\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes, plus has featured for\u00a0Vancouver Whitecaps FC,\u00a0Toronto FC,\u00a0and\u00a0LAFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2012 MLS All-Star has been part of three Supporters\u2019 Shield-winning teams (2012, \u201817, \u201819) and won an MLS Cup in 2017 with Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mlssoccer.com &#8211; COLORADO, The\u00a0Colorado Rapids\u00a0have re-signed fullback\u00a0Steven Beitashour\u00a0after he entered free agency, the 2021 Western&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":654,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44642,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640\/revisions\/44642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}