After a sterling 2020 season for the Tampa Bay Rowdies, center back Forrest Lasso has been named as the USL Championship’s Defender of the Year. The award is determined by technical staffs and team executives from across the league, as well as media representatives from each USL market. Lasso, 27, won with 40 percent of […]
There will be no USL Cup champion in 2020. A little over 24 hours before the The Tampa Bay Rowdies and Phoenix Rising FC were slated to play for the USL Championship’s title at Al Lang, the league has elected to cancel the match after several Rowdies players tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday. Sport’s […]
Sunday’s USL Championship Final will the be the last match the Tampa Bay Rowdies prepare for for quite a while. Knowing that fact, Rowdies Head Coach Neill Collins expects his players to be eager to put everything they have into the preparations. The trick is maintaining the intensity that got you this far while not […]
While the Tampa Bay Rowdies prepare to take on Phoenix Rising FC in the USL Championship FInal this Sunday at Al Lang, the club’s independent supporters group Ralph’s Mob is using the spotlight of the moment to raise money for two great causes. Ralph’s Mob Charities, the separately financed nonprofit arm of the supporters group, […]
The Tampa Bay Rowdies have become a formidable defensive side in 2020. That fact was certainly on display in last Saturday’s 2-1 win in the Eastern Conference Final, in which the Rowdies stifled a Louisville City FC attack that had produced goals consistently throughout the year. Louisville’s leading scorer Cameron Lancaster was a non-factor for […]
Tampa Bay Rowdies forward Juan Tejada has one more match to look forward to after the USL Championsip final against Phoenix Rising FC at Al Lang this Sunday. The young striker has been named to Panama’s squad ahead of the country’s exhibition match against Japan on November 13 that will take place in Austria. While […]
I was fortunate enough to see the Tampa Bay Rowdies open 2020 with a win at New York Red Bulls II in person. I was also unfortunately there to witness them get drubbed 5-0 by the same Red Bulls in April of 2018. Neill Collins was the player that came out of the locker room […]
The Tampa Bay Rowdies will play on in 2020. Tampa Bay extended their season another week by prevailing 2-1 over Louisville City FC in Saturday’s Eastern Confernce Final at Lynn Family Stadium. Zach Steinberger notched the first goal just four minutes into the match and captain Sebastian Guenzatti bagged the winner seconds before the halftime […]
The Tampa Bay Rowdies are set for their first appearance in the USL Championship’s Eastern Conference final this Saturday at 7:30 pm. Waiting to take them on is Louisville City FC. “There’s always a goal to reach and we’re just at the start,” Rowdies head coach Neill Collins said. “I’m pleased with the steps we’ve […]
For weeks, Neill Collins has been saying that if the Rowdies showed up and played their game at the level they’ve set for themseleves, the result would come against the Charleston Battery. Saturday night was the last chance the players had to prove him right. There wasn’t going to be a sixth matchup with the […]