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Rowdies Too Much for Steel FC
Sellout crowd of 7,368 on hand as Tampa Bay opens home slate with win
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Charleston Battery beats Penn FC, 1-0; send president Andrew Bell out in style
Andrew Bell turned out the lights and the third floor hallway at MUSC Health Stadium went dark.
Bell headed down a flight of stairs to say his final goodbyes of the night to the Charleston Battery fans who had hung around for the team’s postgame celebration at the Three Lions Pub.
Bell arrived in the Lowcountry in 1996 as a 23-year-old archeology student hoping to find a local soccer team that he could support. Bell stumbled onto the Charleston Battery, a minor league franchise playing downtown at a Stoney Field, and within three years was working for the club as its play-by-play radio broadcaster.
The team moved to Daniel Island in 1999, Bell's first season with the team, and by 2008 he was running the joint as the club’s president.
Earlier in the week, Bell, 45, announced his resignation to become president of the new United Soccer League franchise in Memphis. He will be the first employee of the new team in Memphis, which is set to begin play in 2019.
Bell’s last official day with the Battery will be Monday.
Charleston sent Bell out in style, defeating Penn FC 1-0 on Ataulla Guerra’s goal in the 62nd minute Saturday night at MUSC Health Stadium.
“This is bittersweet night for me, I’ve spent a large part of my adult life in Charleston working for the Battery,” Bell said. “I’ve been so fortunate to be able to work for a great ownership group, first led by Tony Bakker and now Eric Bowman, and I’ve been able to make so many great friends here. It’s a tough place to leave, but I know it’s in good hands.”
One of those friends that Bell will leave behind in the Lowcountry is Charleston’s head coach Mike Anhaeuser. The two worked side-by-side for almost two decades, helping build the Battery into a national brand.
“First and foremost, Andrew has been a great friend over the years,” Anhaeuser said. “He’s done everything for this organization from top-to-bottom. I’m going to miss him and I know the people around the office are going to miss him, too. I’ve got mixed emotions tonight because I’m happy he’s going to get this opportunity to start a new club, but I hate to see him move on.”
The opportunity to build a minor league franchise from the ground up in Memphis was one that Bell said he couldn’t pass on. pc-032518-sp-batterybell
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance in another great city with a great soccer market,” Bell said. “They have a very strong ownership group that is committed to building a strong club.”
On the field, Bell witness a strong defensive performance from both clubs. Neither team was able to generate much offense as only five combined shots were recorded for the entire game. A week ago, the Battery generated plenty of scoring chances, but failed to score in a 1-0 loss to Minnesota United in the season opener for both clubs.
“Penn sat in there and did a nice job defensively,” Anhaeuser said. “Last week we had a ton of chances and couldn’t finish, so every game is different. In the end, Atualla scores a great goal and you get the three points and the result you wanted and hopefully this gets us rolling.”
Guerra’s goal came after a nice build-up. Guerra got the ball on the right side, stepped past one Penn FC defender, eluded another, and then ripped the ball past Romuald Peiser for the score.
“It was a touch of experience and composure in front of the goal,” Guerra said. “I just relaxed because I knew I was going to get a chance. It was a nice finish with my left foot, my weaker foot.”
The Battery will head out on the road for four straight games. Charleston’s next home match will be April 28 against the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
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http://www.phillysoccerpage.net/2018/03/25/match-report-bethlehem-steel-0-2-tampa-bay-rowdies/
Match Report: Bethlehem Steel 0-2 Tampa Bay Rowdies
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Charleston Battery blanks Penn FC for first win of the season
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Rowdies dominate in second half to defeat Bethlehem 2-0 in USL home opener
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Battery shuts out Penn FC for season's first win
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/david-beckham-moves-miami-manchester-12247328
David Beckham moves to Miami as Manchester United legend attempts to lure Carlo Ancelotti to new MLS franchise
Victoria and the former England superstar's children will stay in England as he attempts to fulfil his Stateside vision
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Childhood cancer survivor is Rowdies’ official anthem singer
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Eastern Conf. Notebook – Nashville Ready for Home Comforts
Bethlehem, Charlotte looking to back up big opening weekend victories
STEEL FC LOOK TO KEEP FORM: After both teams came out with good wins to open the 2018 season, Saturday’s match between the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Bethlehem Steel FC is set to be a barn burner in the Rowdies' home opener at Al Lang Stadium (7:30 p.m. ET | Match Center), with a sellout crowd expected to provide a raucous atmosphere.
After Steel FC's home win last week against the Richmond Kickers, this road test is on a different level, against a team that also made the 2017 USL Cup Playoffs. After their experience facing the Rowdies last season Steel FC Head Coach Brendan Burke knows his side is in for a strong test.
“The quality of their individual players is excellent, probably at or near the top of the league in terms of experience but also quality and it really flows through their whole team,” said Burke. “There is not going to be anything easy about going to their place.”
Despite that difficulty, Burke remains confident in his team’s passing style that was key to last week’s big 4-1 win against Richmond at Goodman Stadium. There may be opportunities for Bethlehem to exploit and those will have to be taken on Saturday against a Rowdies side that was clinical in taking its chances in its season-opening victory.
“They were pretty well organized and probably sat a little deeper than they wanted to at times and the game became a little wide open in transition moments but I think for them to go away and win 3-1 at North Carolina FC and to be coming home to very big crowd sets us up for a very difficult game,” said Burke. “I don’t think we change our approach at all but I do think there is going to be a lot more critical moments in the game than there were last weekend.”
Playing against a team in its home opener can be difficult and with the Rowdies expecting a sellout the atmosphere will be electric, making it an even tougher scenario. But proper management of the game can help that and the Bethlehem players are already working on bringing the right mentality.
“It will be there home opener so I think they will try to come out and come after us early in the game. I think if we can take it in chunks and get settle into the game within the first 15 minutes, that we’ll be fine,” said Steel FC defender Matt Mahoney. “Like every game, they are just players and we’re just players and we know that we can compete with them.”
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Freddy Adu officially registered with new USL club Las Vegas Lights
Adu has been out of the game since 2016, when he played with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the NASL, but he wrote in January that he was interested in returning.
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Freddy Adu signs contract with new USL outfit Las Vegas Lights
Since then, his career has tailed off, with the forward enduring spells with 14 clubs in 14 years, while his last appearance as a professional footballer came during his stint with Tampa Bay Rowdies in 2016.
Adu has made 17 appearances for the United States national side, registering two goals, while his last cap came in 2011, some seven years ago.
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Rowdies hope to match last season’s home dominance
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Rowdies name 12-year-old cancer survivor as 2018 official anthem singer
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Freddy Adu officially registered with new USL club Las Vegas Lights
Adu has been out of the game since 2016, when he played with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the NASL, but he wrote in January that he was interested in returning.
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Mkosana Added to Penn FC Attack
Zimbabwean forward recorded 20 regular-season goals in two prior seasons at club
Mkosana went on to make 94 combined appearances for the Tampa Bay Rowdies and New York Cosmos, winning a pair of championships in New York. Most recently, Mkosana made 15 appearances and scored for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Premier League in 2017. He scored also two goals in Finland’s domestic cup, the Suomen Cup, which helped propel IFK Mariehamn to the quarterfinals.
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The USL Q&A – Rob Stone, Tampa Bay Rowdies Fan (uslsoccer.com)
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The USL Q&A – Rob Stone, Tampa Bay Rowdies Fan
FOX Sports host talks Rowdies fanhood, soccer’s domestic growth, love of Al Lang Stadium
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Rowdies welcomed lifelong fan Rob Stone to be the guest emcee at Monday night’s official season kickoff party at the Mahaffey Theater in downtown St. Petersburg as the Fox Sports host told stories about his history with the club and hosted a Q&A with Rowdies Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Governor Bill Edwards and players Joe Cole, Marcel Schafer and Georgi Hristov.
Stone, who will host Fox’s 2018 FIFA World Cup coverage this summer, also talked with USLSoccer.com about his history with the sport, which saw him compete collegiately at Colgate University, and the massive strides soccer has made since he first became a Rowdies fan as a youngster.
GROWING UP ROWDIES
Q: What does it mean to be part of this, the launch of a new season for a club that you have so much history with?
Rob Stone: Yeah, I think it just goes to show the growth of this game that there are now events that happen like this in American soccer, and that you get a turnout and a huge pop for this, it shows the continued growth at a really staggering rate. The beauty about the Rowdies is it’s one of those few iconic names and brands that has shown the legs to survive from the 70s, 80s, 90s to where we are now. It’s arguably the most iconic name and brand in American soccer, and it’s the oldest team that’s still around now, which is surreal that we’re talking in those kinds of terms.
Q: You grew up with the Rowdies, what was it like growing up as a soccer fan in that era when you had such incredible names playing for the club?
RS: When I grew up as a fan of soccer, it was a chase. It was a chase to find the game. It wasn’t everywhere on television, it was Soccer Made in Germany on PBS, it was a random NASL game maybe on ABC Sports, and you prayed to God your team was there so you could actually see them. I lived in North Carolina and Connecticut as a fan of the Rowdies, and I would chase them down and badger my parents to take me to New England Tea Men games, take me to New York Cosmos games when the Rowdies were in town.
I was that idiot kid in the green and yellow hooped socks, the full kit – yes, I was a full-kit w----r as a kid – because that was my team and I didn’t care. I didn’t care going into the den of Giants Stadium in the swamp of New Jersey all kitted out as a kid because that was my team and that’s what I cared about. I took a lot of heat from Cosmos fans, but it was a good lesson for me to stick up for what you believe in, and I’ve always believed in the Rowdies. It’s my first love in sports, so I’m going to stay with them.
Q: We’ve seen the hooped socks on broadcasts as well, is it fun to be able to transmit that to the national audience?
RS: It is fun, because sometimes we’re asked to do things and other times we want to do it and it’s purely organic, and whenever the Rowdies come up, no-one’s asking me to talk about them, I’m doing it of my own free will and I think you can hear the change in my volume and my energy level and my passion.
Q: What’s your favorite thing about Al Lang Stadium?
RS: The uniqueness of it. The view. I just love that opening, that odd opening in the stadium that really makes no sense, but I love how the Rowdies have embraced it. It makes it different, it sets it apart where you’ve got this gorgeous view of what Florida should be. If you close your eyes and you say Florida, you’re seeing palm trees, you’re seeing water, you’re seeing boats, you’re seeing flip flops and you’re seeing leisure, and you see all of that through the channel, and yet all you need to do is tilt your head down to another degree and you see top-level soccer, an amazing fanbase, and a history that really right now is second-to-none in American soccer.
Q: The thing I find most interesting right now is soccer is becoming a much greater part of community pride, and it’s not just at the Major League Soccer Level, it’s across the country. You with the Rowdies, Alexi [Lalas] with Detroit, everyone is proud to represent Cincinnati, Sacramento, Louisville, Nashville, wherever it is, it’s being embraced as a civic entity now.
RS: Yeah, you’re seeing that everywhere, and there’s no way you could have forecast that phenomenon maybe even 10 years ago. I remember going to Asheville, North Carolina to go watch a World Cup 2014 game, and it’s Asheville, North Carolina, it’s out in the mountains, it’s the Blue Ridge Parkway, it’s not where you thought soccer would be, and guess what? Soccer was staring me right in the face and it was a sold-out bar. I had to call ahead to reserve a table for me and my friends, and it’s everywhere now. The gospel has been spread.
It’s almost like the California Missions, spreading the gospel up the coast of California, well guess what, this is the Soccer Missions, and it’s infiltrated everywhere. I take great joy in seeing these “smaller, minor-league cities” saying we’re now worthy of a team. We have a population that wants it, we have a fan-base that deserves it, we have ownership that wants to do it, and we have enough talent that the American population can handle it. It’s just spreading and spreading, and what the USL is doing and now what I’m seeing with USL D-3 absolutely warms my heart.
I remember when I graduated college I did a road trip with my best friend, and we wanted to hit ballparks. We weren’t diehard baseball fans, but it just felt like the thing to do, and we were like “yeah, we want to hit a couple of major league parks, but we also want to hit some of the minor league parks too, really get the nuances of the Durham Bulls or the San Antonio Mission, whatever these smaller teams were. Now, you can do it with soccer, and I wish I was graduating college now so I could do a summer road trip to all of these wonderful growing soccer communities that will take you in as one of their own just by pulling into the parking lot.
Q: You see the places where it’s springing up now, Birmingham, Memphis, you’ve got all of these Southeastern cities where the game has come alive following the tradition of the Rowdies. I don’t think anyone quite expected what Atlanta’s done, but there seems to have been this groundswell in the Southeast that the Rowdies are part of?
RS: For a long time the Southeast was confusing the experts. Boy, we’ve got to have a market here but nothing seems to stick, and there’s no way it’ll work here or there or Point A or Point B, and I for one didn’t think Atlanta was a fully-wise decision soccer-wise. I got it for the ownership and the stadium concept where we can get two teams there, but I grew up opposed to playing on artificial surface and in a football stadium, that just rubbed me the wrong way, but Atlanta has single-handedly changed that dynamic in one year.
That is the South, my friend, that’s Waffle House, Cracker Barrell, that is not where you expect soccer to be growing up, and it’s there, and it’s alive and well, and I think it sends a strong message to potential ownership groups, to potential sponsors, to the population itself not just here in North America but overseas as well that, holy cow, there’s more than just New York and L.A. for soccer. We can go to Atlanta, we can go to Tampa, we can go to Nashville, we can go to Portland, we can go from coast to coast, and including Canada, and you’re going to see a passionate fanbase, ownership and crowd that you’re going to want to be part of.
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING AHEAD
Q: Your playing career…
RS: … was awesome. It’s going to go down in the record books as one of the greatest Americans to ever play in the Patriot League!
Q: … what did you enjoy most about playing?
RS: I enjoyed the competition and the camaraderie. I love competing, and I loved fighting for a goal particularly with a team. It’s that team concept that I really miss. We replicate it to an extent in your workplace and I think we have a great team at Fox Sports, whether it’s my soccer team, or college football, or college basketball, but to be on stage tonight and see that team introduced one by one, and see the bond they have and the subtle looks they can give each other, and you know it means something, and the battles they’ve been through, the ups and the downs, that’s what I miss, and that’s what really drew me to the game, just this sense of “we’re all in this together, let’s fight for a good cause doing something that we absolutely love.”
Q: Your first World Cup was as a sideline reporter, now you’ve gradually moved up the food chain, what’s it going to be like sitting in the big chair this summer?
RS: This summer, I’ve been preparing for it mentally and physically for a long, long time and to be handed the keys to this World Cup castle is daunting, I don’t take it lightly, I think of the names that have had it, but I also think of the growth that those people have been part of, and to where it is now. This World Cup presentation will be nothing compared to what you would have seen eight years ago, and to a point four years ago. ESPN was a master steward for the sport, and what they did for the World Cup, elevating it to a massive level of importance, and when we covered it in ’98 there was this fear among the remotes that once the U.S. is out all the remotes were going to say, “no, thank you”, and turn off, and every four years that sentiment kinda got eroded, and they said, “wait a second, people understand these other teams, they can talk about Germany, they’re intrigued by what’s going on in South America, oh my goodness, look at the Asian explosion.”
Now we have for the first time in decades no U.S. National Team, and for the first time in decades this country can handle it because this country knows what’s at stake, they understand the game, they understand what it means, and they understand what an event it is. No longer do we have to “educate the viewership”, they know what they’re getting themselves into, and now we just have to present it properly. We are going to overdeliver this summer, that’s my one guarantee.
Q: Speaking of overdelivering, some good promises made out there by [Bill Edwards on a championship season]. Marcel [Schafer] wouldn’t go quite as far, but this team looks like it has the makings of a serious championship contender. You’ll be remote in Russia, remote in L.A., is it going to be fun watching this team, this season?
RS: I’m pulled in so many directions in my life, but if there was a pie graph of my life there’s a chunk there that’s Green and Gold and keeps an eye on what’s going on. I’ve got people who remind me, I’ve got a lot of good friends who still live in the Tampa Bay area who send me texts, who’ll send me pictures, send me videos in the moment, who’ll Facetime me from games, so even if I’m back in California or in Red Square this summer I will be keeping track on how the Green and Gold are doing this season.
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http://www.fox13news.com/good-day/charley-s-world/tampa-bay-rowdies-home-opener-kicks-off-on-saturday
Tampa Bay Rowdies home opener kicks off on Saturday
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12-Year-Old Cancer Survivor Named As Rowdies Anthem Singer
The teen, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia four years ago, has been named the official anthem singer of the Rowdies
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Lights FC Makes Adu Signing Official
Added to Las Vegas’ squad ahead of inaugural home opener Saturday vs. Reno
Adu had trained with Lights FC throughout preseason and saw action in Las Vegas’ scrimmage against his first professional club, D.C. United, on February 24 during which he recorded an assist. Now more than a year removed from his last official appearance professionally for the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Adu is set to return to action with Lights FC.
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http://www.bradenton.com/sports/mlb/tampa-bay-rays/article206334704.html
Koch brothers’ group targets new Tampa Bay Rays stadium
Starting Wednesday, residents of the Tampa Bay area may have started to see a new video ad on their social media feeds assailing the idea that public money could be used to build a new baseball stadium — complete with an animated “taxpayer” being bowled over by a player sliding into a base.
It’s part of a new campaign by Americans for Prosperity, the activist arm funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, as the powerful conservative group sets its sights on the Tampa Bay Rays stadium fight.
According to Chris Hudson, director of AFP’s Florida operations, the group aims to draw a line in the sand as discussions continue between local government officials and the Rays to ensure no taxpayer money is used to woo the team from one side of the bay to the other.
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https://ussoccerplayers.com/2018/03/mls-in-miami-needs-a-stadium.html
MLS in Miami needs a stadium
The soccer news starts with what now seems like an old story in MLS. Where will a team find land and concessions to build a nice new stadium somewhere in the greater metro area? DC United spent over a decade trying to answer that question, eventually ending up on the right side of the District line to satisfy the latest incarnation of MLS. That's playing within the city limits, preferably near downtown. Now, it's MLS in Miami's turn to sift through the options and make a decision.
With Miami, that means potentially starting over. The Miami Herald's Barry Jackson reports that the Miami MLS expansion group is now looking at suburban stadium sites. David Beckham's expansion bid had a stadium site, in the Overtown community. That faced public backlash and basic questions over access and parking. Now it seems the stadium could be anywhere in the greater Miami area, which means playing outside the city limits.
As it stands, two of the city's four major sports teams play outside the city limits. The NHL's Panthers are in Sunrise and the Dolphins play in what now looks like a European soccer stadium in Miami Gardens. Peru is using that stadium to play Croatia on Friday, but most MLS teams aren't in the market to rent a venue with almost 65,000 seats. Part of the reason the Beckham bid finally has an MLS expansion team is the stadium plan, or at least the commitment that they will eventually build somewhere. MLS doesn't need a replay of NYCFC, where building somewhere in the five boroughs is now another season with more to follow at Yankee Stadium.
MLS Miami can't follow that model without raising the type of questions that don't have easy answers. With talk of a bigger stadium complex, finding available land is once again the issue. With the Atlanta Braves moving out of downtown Atlanta and the Cowboys building a training center that costs more than most stadium an exit north of FC Dallas in Frisco, there's a point that we might be seeing the end of the downtown stadium trend. That's worth highlighting and underlining when it comes to pro sports. Stadium construction and location always feeds off of trends. What seems obvious right now might not look that way in a few years. It's predicting a future that has a tendency to reward some teams and punish others.
For Miami, the bigger issue is embracing MLS. This isn't the same scenario that drove their last MLS expansion team too far north in Fort Lauderdale, but it's also not what most expected. MLS is in a moment where getting what they want in some markets doesn't mean being able to push for the same in other markets. LAFC set yet another new standard, but there's no indication that it's a template for MLS in major American cities.
The Washington Post's Steven Goff talks to USMNT player Andrija Novakovich. Pro Soccer Talk's Nicolas Mendola highlights the new faces with the USMNT. Bundesliga.com highlights Schalke and USMNT player Weston McKennie. ESPN FC's Mark Ogden cites sources that have Zlatan Ibrahimovic moving to MLS. MLSsoccer.com's Sam Stejskal has Seattle looking for a Designated Player.
Barcelona's Gerard Pique in The Players' Tribune. Inside World Football's Andrew Warshaw with West Ham's response to crowd issues at London Stadium.
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https://miami.curbed.com/2018/3/22/17148560/david-beckham-mls-stadium-location
David Beckham’s team goes back to the drawing board for MLS stadium location
More than five sites are in consideration
After zeroing in on Overtown and considering Melreese golf course, David Beckham and his partners in Miami’s new MLS team are broadening their search for a stadium location.
“We’re actively looking at five or so sites,” MLS Miami partner Jorge Mas told the Miami Herald. “There are a handful of sites that are interesting.”
Mas declined to confirm individual sites, but the paper’s sources floated a few new locations that might be in the hunt. Besides Overtown and the golf course (both of which face opposition in the form of neighbor apprehension and a petition to save Melreese), possible sites under consideration include land at Hialeah Park and Casino, a Pepsi distribution center in Doral, and land near Jackson Memorial Hospital. The site is meant to accommodate more than just a stadium: Mas wants to include youth soccer fields and a “tech hub” as well.
Soccer in the suburbs? Beckham group is looking beyond Miami for its stadium site. [Miami Herald]
This Miami golf course could be the MLS soccer stadium’s new home [Curbed Miami]
Here’s what David Beckham partner Jorge Mas wants in the MLS stadium site [Curbed Miami]
Neighbors are vowing to fight David Beckham’s proposed MLS stadium in Overtown [Curbed Miami]
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https://therealdeal.com/miami/2018/03/22/here-are-the-new-sites-beckham-group-is-reportedly-eyeing-for-200m-soccer-stadium/
Here are the new sites Beckham group is reportedly eyeing for $200M soccer stadium
PepsiCo distribution center in Doral is among them
The Hialeah Park Casino, a Pepsi distribution center in Doral, the Melreese golf course and a truck depot near Jackson Memorial Hospital are among the sites David Beckham and his partners are now considering for their $200 million Major League Soccer stadium.
Jorge Mas, who joined the group as a partner with his brother José late last year, confirmed to the Miami Herald that he and his partners are “actively looking at five or so sites.” The Mas brothers have reservations about the previous Overtown site’s size, location and lack of parking, as well as the site’s significant opposition from Spring Garden neighbors.
But Overtown, which has been the site since 2015, is still a possibility. Beckham’s group owns 6 acres of land that it purchased for $19 million in 2016, and is under contract to buy 3 acres from Miami-Dade County.
Earlier this month, Miami City Manager Emilio González met with Jorge Mas to discuss building the stadium on the city-owned Melreese golf course near Miami International Airport.
Other options include land inside the Hialeah Park and Casino, which covers about 40 square blocks off Palm Avenue; a roughly 20-acre, city-owned site near Jackson Memorial Hospital that’s currently a truck depot; and the nearly 24-acre PepsiCo distribution center that Terra and Terranova purchased for $40 million earlier this year. [Miami Herald] – Katherine Kallergis
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http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/03/22/clock-ticking-as-beckham-soccer-group-considers-stadium-sites/
Clock Ticking As Beckham Soccer Group Considers Stadium Sites
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – When soccer superstar David Beckham announced nearly five years ago he would bring soccer to Miami, he made it clear he wanted the team to play in Miami.
But proposed site after site has fallen through and now Beckham’s group is exploring building a stadium outside of the Magic City.
When Beckham was officially granted a soccer team in January, plans to build a stadium on a mostly county-owned plot in Overtown immediately were shot down. Never mind residents were threatening a lawsuit, Jorge and Jose Mas, Beckham’s new, big gun Miami partners, made it clear they didn’t like the Overtown site; no parking, no easy access, no space for a training facility.
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https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/77226/report-beckham-mls-group-is-looking-at-five-stadi.html
Report: Beckham MLS group is looking at five stadium sites in Miami
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College Coaching Moves: Ohio State's John Bluem set to retire (socceramerica.com)
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College Coaching Moves: Ohio State's John Bluem set to retire
John Bluem will step down as Ohio State's men's soccer coach on April 30 after 21 years with the Buckeyes.
He played at Hartwick and spent two seasons in the NASL with the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
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Rowdies Rally at Mayor's Food Truck-It (web.stpete.com)
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Rowdies Rally at Mayor's Food Truck-It
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New Blake Pro Video - Carolina Trip! (youtu.be)
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Jack Blake: The Life Of A Professional Soccer Player - Episode 4
Jack Blake
Published on Mar 21, 2018
This video contains footage of our travel day to North Carolina to compete in our first game of the 2018 USL season. You will see everything from waking up in my apartment in St Petersburg, to going to sleep in my hotel room in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I hope you all enjoy! Let me know in the comments below what you would like to see on the upcoming videos.
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Music: https://www.bensound.com
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Tropics SC and Pinellas County United SC Partner on WPSL Franchise, Lady Tropics SC - will play 2018 season in St. Pete (fltropics.com)
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Tropics Soccer Club and Pinellas County United SC Partner on WPSL Franchise, Lady Tropics SC
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Rowdies Ready for Home Opener (stpetecasual.wordpress.com)
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Rowdies Ready for Home Opener
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Cross Post - USL Goal of the week - Jack Blake (youtu.be)
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USL Goal of the Week presented by Select - Week 1: Winner Jack Blake
United Soccer League
Published on Mar 22, 2018
Jack Blake is the winner of our fan vote for Goal of the Week presented by Select for week 1 of the USL season.
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David Beckham Has Already Identified Who He Wants To Manage Miami MLS Team
David Beckham's Miami franchise likely won't be able to play in the MLS until 2020 but the footballing legend is already making moves.
The Mirror reports that while his family is to remain in England, Beckham is putting in the extra hours in Florida to prepare for the challenge.
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Rowdies hope to match last season’s home dominance (tampabay.com)
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Rowdies hope to match last season’s home dominance
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The Bench, volume 3 issue 1 – The Unused Substitutes (OC) (theunsubs.com)
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The Bench, volume 3 issue 1
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Post-Match Thread POST-MATCH THREAD: IT WAS OVER THE LINE!!!!! (self.TampaBayRowdies)
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Attendance Thread Rowdies Attendance Thread - Game 1 vs. Bethlehem Steel FC (self.TampaBayRowdies)
A really solid opening night - I think they really oversold GA, because there were lots of people who couldn't find seats. Weather was perfect - energy was great. A bit down from the Orlando opener last year, but we were missing out on that whole caged in section for their supporters. Nice start to the season...
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Highlights Highlights: Tampa Bay Rowdies 2 - 0 Bethlehem Steel (youtu.be)
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Highlights: Tampa Bay Rowdies 2 - 0 Bethlehem Steel
Tampa Bay Rowdies
Published on Mar 24, 2018
HIGHLIGHTS - Rowdies defeat Bethlehem Steel FC 2-0 with goals from Georgi Hristov and Leo Fernandes. 7,368 fans showed up to Al Lang Stadium to witness the home opener victory!
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UnSubs Coffee Talk: No Mixtape needed (theunsubs.com)
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Coffee Talk: No Mixtape needed
We’re bringing Coffee Talk back. Don’t remember Coffee Talk? Well that’s probably because we only did like three of a few years ago (My bad). Anyway, it’s back and we’re trying something different. This time will have the etnire Unused Substitutes staff sound off with their quick thoughts following a match. Sometimes they’ll be insightful. Sometimes they’ll just be stuff we found amusing at the match or on the broadcast.
So let’s get into it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4wy3Xy4K0
Tampa Bay Rowdies vs Bethlehem Steel FC: March 24, 2018
United Soccer League
Streamed live on Mar 24, 2018
Visit http://www.uslsoccer.com for upcoming games, live scores and match highlights.
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