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Colorado Rapids sign USMNT midfielder Djordje Mihailovic from AZ Alkmaar | MLSSoccer.com
TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signing
Mihailovic, who previously played in MLS for Chicago Fire FC and CF Montréal (from 2017-22), will be a Designated Player for Colorado. He’s under contract through 2027 and a club option for 2028.
To sign Mihailovic, the Rapids reportedly paid a club-record transfer fee that’s north of $3 million. Additionally, Colorado have sent $75,000 in General Allocation Money to FC Cincinnati for his discovery priority.
“Djordje is an exciting, skillful player with a proven track record of success in MLS and at the international level,” Rapids president Pádraig Smith said in a release. “We are incredibly excited to welcome a player of his caliber and experience to Colorado.
“Djordje is entering his prime years, and we eagerly anticipate the intensity and boldness he brings, which will undoubtedly make us a more dangerous group.”
During his first MLS chapter, Mihailovic tallied 20g/36a across 134 regular-season appearances. After rising to star status at Montréal, he earned a wintertime move to AZ Alkmaar for reportedly more than $6 million (including add-ons).
Mihailovic’s AZ Alkmaar career never truly took off, producing just 2g/2a in 36 matches. He was then allowed to pursue a midseason transfer, resulting in the Colorado deal.
While playing for the USMNT, Mihailovic has three goals in 11 matches – highlighted by featuring at two Concacaf Gold Cup tournaments.
“Djordje is a top signing, and this addition is a big statement from our club,” head coach Chris Armas said in a release. “His competitive nature and play-making ability will immediately make us better as well as help us score goals. He has the personality and intensity needed to excel with our style of play.”
As part of MLS is Back weekend, the Rapids begin their Armas era with a Feb. 24 visit to the Portland Timbers (10:30 pm ET | MLS Season Pass). They’ll have another marquee offseason signing in tow after acquiring USMNT goalkeeper Zack Steffen from Manchester City.
A sculpture that currently sits inside a now-closed Aurora recreation center may get a new lease on life if the Aurora City Council approves a move.
The Beck Recreation Center closed last summer, and part of the building is scheduled for demolition. The remaining portion will serve as a golf shop for the nearby SpringHill Golf Course. That means a huge glass and metal sculpture installed in 2014 needs to be moved.
On Monday, Aurora’s city council will vote on a proposal to move it to Tallyn’s Reach Library. The artist, Reven Marie Swanson, has art installations across the country, and even some overseas.
“Without sounding like I’m bragging, my artwork is in 26 states, 38 municipalities in Colorado and in three countries, ” said Swanson.
She’s a sculptor who combines metalwork and glasswork to create unique pieces, like the one that currently sits inside the shuttered Beck Recreation Center.
“It’s called ‘Under the Swimming Pool,’ and it’s the idea about when you walk into the vestibule. It felt like I could create something that you could actually be under the water and looking up through the surface of the water as if you’re walking on the bottom of the pool,” said Swanson.
In the summer of 2025, structural issues shut the doors at Beck for good, and since then, Swanson’s sculpture has been stuck there.
“I was a little nervous because city governments are very quick to do what they call ‘de-access’ artwork. And I was really hoping that this piece wouldn’t get de-accessed,” said Swanson.
Luckily, the City of Aurora has other plans. They want to move the piece from Beck to Tallyn’s Reach Library.
Swanson says it should be a simple move, but the sculpture, which hangs from the ceiling, will have to be attached to the library’s ceiling in a new way, using new materials. But Swanson says she likes the new location.
“It’s a really beautiful building. It’s got wonderful light, which is going to interact really nicely with the glass,” said Swanson.
And she is glad it will live on, continuing to inspire and enchant Aurorans.
“When I walked into the library, the librarian, she was like, ‘I am so excited to get this art!’ And it makes an artist feel good. Like you accomplished something,” said Swanson.
The proposal, which will be heard at Monday’s city council meeting, is estimated by the city to cost between $15,000 and $25,000, primarily because of the cost of materials needed to suspend it at the new location. The initial cost to install it at Beck Recreation Center in 2014 was nearly $35,000 dollars.
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