Tampa Bay Rowdies
The Tampa Bay Rowdies are the professional soccer team in St. Petersburg, Florida, a part of the United Soccer League Championship (USL). Home games are played at Al Lang Stadium in downtown St. Petersburg. The Rowdies were the first professional sports franchise in the area and remain one of the most recognizable and well-loved brands in soccer. Originally established in 1975, the team won the NASL Soccer Bowl championship in its inaugural year and created a unique, entertaining and memorable franchise with the Fannies, Wowdies and unforgettable Kick in the Grass theme song. In 2008, a group of investors announced the purchase of rights to a professional soccer franchise and the newly established team began play in 2010. In 2012, the Rowdies won the NASL Soccer Bowl Championship after a thrilling shoot-out victory in front of a sold out crowd at Al Lang Stadium in downtown St. Petersburg. In December of 2013, St. Petersburg philanthropist Bill Edwards announced he acquired the controlling interest of the Tampa Bay Rowdies. In October of 2018 the Tampa Bay Rays and Stuart Sternberg purchased the Rowdies.www.rowdiessoccer.com
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Oct 30, 2026
Jimmy ConradHOST
He's got three goals.
Jimmy ConradHOST
Santiago Castaneda, a 21-year-old who started with the Tampa Bay Rowdies, is now at Paderborn and making some moves and excited to see him continue to progress.
Jimmy ConradHOST
He was man of the match for Paderborn in their last game.
Jimmy ConradHOST
Paderborn currently in 13th and Gladbach on bottom of the table in the Bundesliga.
Jimmy ConradHOST
of context on Castaneda.
Jimmy ConradHOST
We can get into him later because I think he symbolizes kind of that next wave of like these kids that are coming through.
Jimmy ConradHOST
He started a lower division with Tampa Bay Rowdies.
Jimmy ConradHOST
So three years ago, he was playing with the Rowdies in the USL Championship.
Pete BowenGUEST
But we'll see how things go.
Pete BowenGUEST
Charlie means and what other people means, and I'm just going to kind of go out on a limb here and interpret myself, is we want to stay in the game in St. Pete, whether it be helping the Rowdies get to MLS and building them a new permanent home.
Pete BowenGUEST
That's something I'm concerned about.
Pete BowenGUEST
They're only on a one-year deal right now at Alang Stadium, so we've got to figure out something like that.
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Ray RoaHOST
E-Love in Studio One with Art in Your Ear.
Ray RoaHOST
That's it for us.
Ray RoaHOST
Go Rowdies.
Ray RoaHOST
Enjoy.
Adam HernandezHOST
And that gave the Miami FC that final eighth spot.
Adam HernandezHOST
And they'll go on and play the Tampa Bay Rowdies this weekend as well.
Adam HernandezHOST
But...
Adam HernandezHOST
Sean, the way that I looked at this, you know, this this loose city match was the same way in a sense that I looked at that Tampa Bay match.
Jason DavisHOST
Charleston Battery hosting Rhode Island FC.
Jason DavisHOST
Tampa Bay Rowdies hosting Miami.
Jason DavisHOST
Detroit City FC hosting Hartford Athletic.
Jason DavisHOST
That, again, pits our guy Robert Kerr and our friend Soccer Night Detroit and everybody we know in Michigan up against Seton O'Connor and his Hartford Athletic.
D.J. SwitzerHOST
He was the youngest MLS player ever.
D.J. SwitzerHOST
at the end of his career, he's playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies, uh, during, I think right before they joined USL and he was doing viral postings or, or basically ads for companies on his social media posts.
D.J. SwitzerHOST
He did like a dirt devil where he's like using a stick dirt devil in his apartment in Tampa.
D.J. SwitzerHOST
And I just remember thinking like this guy was doing ads with Nike and Pele, like, eight years ago and now he's been like, can, can I use my vacuum cleaner in my apartment to get a few extra bones? So I get why Kevin Sullivan is very reluctant to be compared because he is ideally wanting to have a different career than that.
Jason CareyHOST
And I think Rowdy's a... get another win here
Matt EntringerHOST
all right well I've got something a little different on my side of it uh similar in fact though uh when it comes down to the Eastern Conference so I won't even repeat it I have the exact same thing up until the Eastern Conference final I see Detroit City FC actually holding on and beating the Tampa Bay Rowdies to go to the cup final alongside The Western here, but the Western Conference a little different.
Matt EntringerHOST
I've got San Antonio beating El Paso in the first round and Sacramento Republic rightfully destroying FC Tulsa within that match going New Mexico United and Sacramento Republic in the Western Conference final with Sacramento actually winning on.
Matt EntringerHOST
Sorry to our New Mexico fans.
Chris VossHOST
Today, Gil was born in the shadow of Parachute Jump in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.
Chris VossHOST
Car wash specialist, USAF, Russian linguist, radio disc jockey, news reporter, award-winning sports reporter, play-by-play announcer for Tampa Bay Rowdies, NASL soccer in 1975, and arena announcer for Hartford Whalers, Hartford Wolfpack, New England Blizzard, and video producer, videographer, script writer, editor for Mystic TV, Newport View TV, and Hartford View TV.
Chris VossHOST
Welcome to the show, sir.
Chris VossHOST
How are you?
Rick StroudHOST
century.
Rick StroudHOST
Yeah, we don't have to talk about the Rowdies.
Rick StroudHOST
There's just a lot of winning down here recently, not always.
Rick StroudHOST
And other
Owain EvansHOST
All right, we'll just run through the things here.
Owain EvansHOST
First versus eighth, Tampa Bay Rowdies playing against the Miami FC.
Owain EvansHOST
Miami FC.
Owain EvansHOST
All Florida, first round opener there for them.
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Owain EvansHOST
Is that fair?
Rees GoodallHOST
Yeah.
Rees GoodallHOST
Tampa Bay.
Rees GoodallHOST
Real.
David SheelyGUEST
Great, great piece of hitting from the raising game four.
David SheelyGUEST
So keep up with us as, as we continue our coverage with not just that, but later this week, the Tampa Bay Rowdies begin the playoffs and the playoffs run through our laying stadium because they won the player shield best team in USL championship.
David SheelyGUEST
So we're talking about two playoff runs in St. Pete in the same month.
David SheelyGUEST
It's getting crazy.
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