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Rowdies officially name Stuart Campbell to coach them out of slump

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The Tampa Bay Rowdies have a new, younger look. The Rowdies named Stuart Campbell, 37, as their head coach on Thursday, replacing the fired Thomas Rongen in an effort to stop their slide in the NASL’s Fall Season. Campbell served as interim coach in a 3-1 loss to Minnesota Saturday night, drawing favorable reviews from the Rowdies over the way he had handled the team. Campbell has been with the Rowdies since December of 2012, first as a defensive player,…

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Rowdies lose another despite new head coach Stuart Campbell’s debut

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One second, you are planning one thing. You are shaping and scheming. You are trying to help a team out of a hole. And the next, everything changes. Suddenly, it is your team, and your game, and your opportunity. Quick as that, life is on the counter-attack. Which is sort of the way Stuart Campbell’s week has gone. All of the sudden, a new script has been written. Just like that, a game and a life have become a blur,…

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Rowdies’ Edwards says his clock is ticking faster than ex-team bosses

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In the end, Bill Edwards did not see enough from the Tampa Bay Rowdies. And so, in an effort to jump-start his sagging soccer team, he made changes. Edwards has fired head coach Thomas Rongen and general manager Farrukh Quraishi. Stuart Campbell will serve as the Rowdies’ interim coach in their game against Minnesota Saturday night. โ€œWe had differences of opinions,” Edwards said on You Tube. โ€œTheir opinions were they had a five-year plan. I have a one-year plan. I’m…

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Rowdies struggle in loss to Indy, but still in combined race

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As it turns out, the Tampa Bay Rowdies aren’t playing well in the middle of the week, either. The Rowdies lost 2-0 to the Indy 11, one of the few teams that had been ranked below Tampa Bay in this stumbling Fall Season. The Rowdies fell to 10th of the NASL’s 11 teams in the Fall, losing despite returning to goalkeeper Matt Pickens. The teams were scoreless going into the 60th minute when Dane Richards scored. Erick Norales added a…

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Tampa Bay Rowdies’ Maicon Santos making the most of second chance

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For Maicon Santos, these are the days of his rebirth. There is always something sweet in the story of a second chance, of a fresh canvas. Santos’ story is one of those. Perhaps, he will help to turn it into the fresh hope of the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Look at Santos now, running free and easy, covering ground, attacking the net. He scored two goals and had an assist against the Jacksonville Armada Saturday night in a 3-2 victory, and…

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Rowdies snap three-game losing streak with tie against Carolina

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Well, it beats losing. The Tampa Bay Rowdies tied the Carolina Railhawks Saturday night, 1-1, ending a three-game losing streak in the NASL. The Rowdies, who have been challenged offensively for most of the season, have only four goals in the Fall Season. This time, they got a go-ahead goal from Georgi Hristov, who scored on a one-timer on a cross from Darnell King. The Railhawks tied the score three minutes later, however, on a goal by Mark Anderson. Neither…

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Freddy Adu makes his debut for the Rowdies in a 3-1 loss to the Strikers

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ST. PETERSBURG — The stage was set for one of those movie-script stories. It was extra time, and the home team trailed by one in its rivalry game, and the ball was on the foot of Freddy Adu. Already, he had an assist, and he came into the box, darting and weaving. He lifted the ball up softly toward the goal… and it was tipped away for a corner kick. Fourteen minutes into his Tampa Bay Rowdies era, and Adu…

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