Tampa Bay Rowdies hire Dominic Casciato as new head coach<\/a><\/p>\n“We’re kind of already getting after the tactics and building those bonds,” said forward MD Myers, who is in his first training camp with the team. “Once that chemistry starts rolling, I think it will be really fun.”<\/p>\n
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Despite the roster overhaul, there are still some familiar faces on the pitch for the Rowdies. Casciato retained former midfielder-turned coach Yann Ekra and goalie coach Stuart Dobson.<\/p>\n
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Club legend and former USL MVP Leo Fernandes also moved into a coaching role this season, giving those that helped shape the Rowdies past to build the team’s future.<\/p>\n
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“Having people that understand that responsibility is vital because they can pass it on to guys that are new here and just trying to figure things out,” Casciato said.<\/p>\n
That future starts with what will be a nearly two-month-long training camp.<\/p>\n
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“We know it’s not going to all be smooth sailing, but we thought if we could give ourselves an extra week to get our guys on the same page, that would stand us in really good stead for the season.”<\/p>\n
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The Rowdies continue their training camp until their season opener on March 7 at Birmingham Legion FC.<\/p>\n
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The information in this story was gathered by FOX 13’s Sean Barie while conducting interviews with Rowdies players and coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Tampa Bay Rowdies began their 2026 training camp Tuesday morning at Al Lang Stadium. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[60396,8013,202,204,203,199,201,200,22385,60397],"class_list":{"0":"post-120458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-dominic-casciato","9":"tag-head-coach","10":"tag-st-pete","11":"tag-st-pete-headlines","12":"tag-st-pete-news","13":"tag-st-petersburg","14":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","15":"tag-st-petersburg-news","16":"tag-tampa-bay-rowdies","17":"tag-training-camp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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