1979 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season

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Tampa Bay Rowdies
1979 indoor season
OwnerUnited States George Strawbridge, Jr.
General managerUnited States Chas Serednesky, Jr
ManagerEngland Gordon Jago
StadiumBayfront Center
Budweiser Indoor Invitationalrunner up
Top goalscorerLeague:
Brazil Mirandinha (4 goals)
All:
South Africa Steve Wegerle,
Brazil Mirandinha (5 goals)
Highest home attendance6,342
(Jan. 27 vs. Ft. Lauderdale)
Lowest home attendance6,002
(Feb 2 vs. Houston)
Average home league attendance6,181
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The 1979 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season was the fifth indoor season of the club's existence.

Overview[]

Much to the dismay of Rowdies owner, George Strawbridge, the North American Soccer League owners voted to hold off on a full indoor season for 1978–79 after previously approving it.[1][2] And just as in the winters of 1977 and 1978, when indoor seasons had been nixed, the NASL did not restrict teams from scheduling indoor matches on their own. The end result of this was that the Major Indoor Soccer League was able to launch its inaugural season from December 1978 though March 1978 with virtually no competition from the NASL.

For their part, Tampa Bay played five indoor games in the Winter of 1979, the last four of which were played at the Bayfront Center. The Rowdies first match, on January 25 against the Houston Hurricane, took on a different complexion than the ones that it preceded, and not just because it was an away game. The Hurricane spent their winters playing indoors in the MISL, as the Houston Summit. Although the Summit were in midseason, the two leagues didn’t officially sanction interleague play, so when facing the Rowdies Houston played under their “Hurricane” moniker. Despite that fact, they wore their Summit uniforms, and the match featured MISL timing (four 15-minute quarters), MISL goal dimensions (6.5’ high x 12’ wide),[3] even a bright orange MISL ball.[4] Ironically, the NASL would wind up adopting the MISL's timing and goal size when they finally began their first full indoor season 10 months later in November 1979.[5]

Tampa Bay's next two matches were part of a two-day, four-team mini-tournament called the 1979 NASL Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational.[6] The Rowdies won both of their matches, but lost the title on goal differential to the Dallas Tornado, who had also won both of theirs. The second of those invitational matches saw Tampa Bay goalie, Winston DuBose, become only the second goalkeeper in the NASL’s brief indoor history to record a shutout.[7]

The Rowdies game on February 2 versus the Houston Hurricane (this time played with NASL goals and timing) marked the first time they had ever lost an indoor match at home to a domestic opponent.[8] Tampa Bay's final match of the indoor campaign was an international friendly against FC Dynamo Moscow on February 19. The lopsided, 8–1, loss closed their indoor season record at 3–2. Over 24,700 fans watched the Rowdies at home in 1979, with all but about 650 total tickets being sold for the four matches.

Club[]

Roster[]

No. Position Player Nation
1 GK Winston DuBose  United States
2 GK Željko Bilecki  Canada
3 DF  England
4 DF Arsène Auguste  Haiti
5 MF Jan van der Veen  Netherlands
6 DF Mike Connell  South Africa
7 FW Steve Wegerle  South Africa
8 MF Wes McLeod  Canada
10 MF Rodney Marsh (capt.)  England
11 FW Mirandinha  Brazil
12 MF Perry Van der Beck  United States
13 FW Dave MacWilliams  United States
14 FW Peter Chandler  United States
15 MF  Ireland
16 DF Farrukh Quraishi  England
17 DF Tony Crudo  United States
18 DF Sandje Ivanchukov  United States
19 MF Tommy Maurer  United States
23 DF  Netherlands

*trialist players

Management and technical staff[]

  • United States George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner
  • United States Chas Serednesky, Jr., general manager
  • England Gordon Jago, head coach
  • United States Ken Shields, trainer
  • United States Alfredo Beronda, equipment manager

Honors[]

Competitions[]

Invitational final standings[]

GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, GD = Goal Differential

1979 Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational
Team Record GF GA GD Position
Dallas Tornado* 2–0 15 9 +6 1st place
Tampa Bay Rowdies 2–0 9 4 +5 2nd place (Runners-up)
Tulsa Roughnecks 0–2 7 11 –4 3rd place
Fort Lauderdale Strikers 0–2 6 13 –7 4th place

*Dallas wins Invitational on goal differential

Results summaries[]

Match reports[]

January 25, 1979 1 Houston Hurricane 4–6 Tampa Bay Rowdies Houston, Texas
8:00 PM (CST) Goal 15:17' (O’Sullivan)
Russell Goal 18:26'
Russell Goal 34:57' (Marasco)
Goal 48:57' (Stremlau)		 Report on p. 2C Wegerle Goal 00:44' (Marsh)
Van der Beck Goal 24:28'
Marsh Goal 24:51' (Connell)
Wegerle Goal 31:02'
Connell Goal 44:37'
Wegerle Goal 59:46' (DuBose)		 Stadium: The Summit
Attendance: 2,743
January 27, 1979 2 Bud Invit'l Tampa Bay Rowdies 6–4 Fort Lauderdale Strikers St. Petersburg, Florida
8:30 PM Marsh Goal 9:16'
Mirandinha Goal 11:50' (McLeod)
MirandinhaGoal 20:44' (Maurer)
Maurer Goal 26:38' (Marsh)
Wegerle Goal 27:43' (Marsh)
Quraishi Goal 28:25' (Mirandinha)		 Report 1
Report 2		 Njie Goal 20:33' (Wiggemansen)
Gemeri Goal 24:37'
Njie Goal 30:21' (Wiggemansen)
Vaninger Goal 34:13'		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,342
January 28, 1979 3 Bud Invit'l Tampa Bay Rowdies 3–0 Tulsa Roughnecks St. Petersburg, Florida
7:30 PM Marsh Goal 1:49' (Wegerle)
Mirandinha Goal 17:50' (Marsh)
Mirandinha Goal 31:47'		 Report on p. 2-C none Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,338
February 2, 1979 4 Tampa Bay Rowdies 6–15 Houston Hurricane St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM Wegerle Goal 00:17'
McLeod Goal 25:26'
Marsh Goal 28:12'
Mirandinha Goal 31:48' (Marsh)
McLeod Goal 43:44' (Quraishi)
Quraishi Goal 54:38' (McLeod)		 Report Jump Goal 3:12' (Stremlau)
Anderson Goal 8:04' (Haaskivi)
Stremlau Goal 9:40' (Anderson)
Jump Goal 12:07' (Lindsay)
Lindsay Goal 18:14' (Megaloudis)
Lindsay Goal 20:38' (Jump)
Haaskivi Goal 27:51'
Anderson Goal 29:03' (Megaloudis)
Jump Goal 33:33' (Stremlau)
Lindsay Goal 33:50'
Charbonneau Goal 34:55' (Haaskivi)
Anderson Goal 41:14', Jump'
Maurer, (T.B.) Goal 49:12' (o.g.)
Anderson Goal 35:25' (Megaloudis)
Anderson Goal 59:19' (Megaloudis)		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,002
February 19, 1979 5 Int’l friendly Tampa Bay Rowdies 1–8 FC Dynamo Moscow St. Petersburg, Florida
8:00 PM Goal 25:32' Report on p. 5C Gershkovich Goal 1:49'
Lovchev Goal 4:43' (Gershkovich)
Latysh Goal 12:51'
Yakubik Goal 15:47' (Maksimenkov)
Latysh Goal 18:29'
Reznik Goal 35:25' (Latysh)
Reznik Goal 46:36' (Latysh)
Maksimenkov Goal 56:00' (Gershkovich)		 Stadium: Bayfront Center
Attendance: 6,040

Statistics[]

Scoring[]

G = Goals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point), Pts = Points

Player G A Pts
Rodney Marsh 4 6 14
Mirandinha 5 1 11
Steve Wegerle 5 1 11
Wes McLeod 2 2 6
Farrukh Quraishi 2 1 5
Mike Connell 1 1 3
Tommy Maurer 1 1 3
Perry Van der Beck 1 0 2
1 0 2
Winston DuBose 0 1 1

Goalkeeping[]

Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; W = Wins; L = Losses

Player GP Min GA GAA W L
Winston DuBose 5 250 23 5.52 3 1
Željko Bilecki 1 20 5 15.00 0 1

Player movement[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Tierney, Mike (April 3, 1978). "NASL approves official indoor league in 1979". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Tierney, Mike (January 20, 1979). "Rowdies want to come indoors". St. Petersburg Times. p. 3C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  3. ^ Tierney, Mike (January 25, 1979). "Rowdies hope to hold onto goalie". St. Petersburg Times. p. 4C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  4. ^ "Rowdies roll 6-4". St. Petersburg Times. January 26, 1979. p. 1C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  5. ^ "Indoor Returning, Officially This Time". Evening Independent. September 28, 1979. p. 4-C. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
  6. ^ Tierney, Mike (January 27, 1979). "Blast off! Rowdies aim for indoor orbit". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1c. Retrieved October 24, 2016 – via Google News Archive Search.
  7. ^ Beard, Randy (January 29, 1979). "Rowdies Had To Do More". The Evening Independent. p. 1–C. Retrieved January 2, 2017 – via Google News Archive Search.
  8. ^ Beard, Randy (February 3, 1979). "Bayfront Turned Slaughterhouse". The Evening Independent. p. 1–C. Retrieved January 2, 2017 – via Google News Archive Search.
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