{"id":42537,"date":"2016-04-16T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42537"},"modified":"2016-04-17T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T14:30:21","slug":"jones-scores-in-rapids-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42537","title":{"rendered":"Jones Scores in Rapids Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script height=\"415px\" width=\"600px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=5c2b1b87f97e4fea86c31d8821595f55&#038;ec=BjdHN2MjE6pCzp1peEDs0SHD7GPJ1WRU&#038;platform=html5-priority\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former Revolution designated player Jermaine Jones scored and assisted in his first game with the Colorado Rapids in their 2-1 victory over the New York Red Bulls at Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Park.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who was traded to the Rapids in March for a first-round pick and allocation money after contract negotiations with the Revolution reached an impasse, tallied in the 21st minute on a centering pass from Mekeil Williams. In the 82nd minute, he put a through ball to former Real Boston Ram Dominique Badji, who then punched through the game-winner.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old U.S. International went the full 90 as Colorado&#8217;s central attacking midfielder. He collected a team-high 68 touches, and fired a total of two shots on goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody knows I\u2019m a player,&#8221; Jones told the media after the match. &#8220;I love the freedom to go box-to-box and in my age of 34 and people say I maybe can\u2019t do it anymore, it\u2019s nice to prove people wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s match was the first opportunity for Jones to return to play after he was hit with six-game ban due to his late-game confrontation with Mark Geiger in last year&#8217;s Knockout round match at DC United.<\/p>\n<p>The 21st minute goal marked the first time Jones found the back of the net in MLS play since Leg 1 of the 2014 Eastern Conference final against &#8211; who else? &#8211; the Red Bulls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I\u2019m really thankful,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;This club, they got me here even with a six-game suspension. They gave me an opportunity here to prove people wrong and I think you saw today on the field that I\u2019m earning people\u2019s trust back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Revs DP Jermaine Jones scored in his Rapids debut on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[897],"tags":[66,891,1315,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jones1.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42537"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42554,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537\/revisions\/42554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}