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 […]
Tampa Bay Rowdies Head Coach Neill Collins will have to miss out on Sunday’s USL Championship Final against Phoenix Rising FC after testing positive for COVID-19. Additionally, his assistant coach Kevin Foley and one more unidentified individual within the Rowdies organization tested positive and will therefore not be at Al Lang for the match. “After […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 frustration from several defeats the Tampa Bay Rowdies suffered at the hands of the Charleston Battery in recent months were completely wiped away on Saturday night. When it mattered most, the Rowdies met the moment and posted a 1-0 win over the Battery in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. For the second week in a […]
For a 20-minute stretch on Saturday night the result looked far from certain. In the end, though, the Rowdies came out on top at the end of the 90 minutes to defeat Birmingham Legion FC and move on to the Eastern Conference Semifinal round next weekend. I’ll admit my optimism was dwindling quickly after Birmingham’s […]
Things were looking pretty bleak for the Tampa Bay Rowdies an hour into their clash with Birmingham Legion FC in the USL Championship’s Eastern Conference Quarterfinal on Saturday night at Al Lang. After torching Birmingham with two goals in the first half, the Rowdies then conceded twice themselves in the second half. Thankfully they righted […]
The final weekend of the regular season last week was not go according to plan for the Tampa Bay Rowdies. With the top spot in the Eastern Conference within their grasp, they instead faltered in a 2-1 loss to the Chalreston Battery and saw Louisville City FC, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, Hartford Athletic all leap over […]