{"id":18169,"date":"2025-10-24T00:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18169\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:26:15","slug":"rowdies-fan-favorite-leo-fernandes-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18169\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowdies fan-favorite Leo Fernandes announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 22, 2025 &#8211; Tampa Bay Rowdies midfielder Leo Fernandes announced Wednesday that he will retire following the 2025 season, ending an illustrious 13-year professional career. However, Fernandes will remain with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rowdiessoccer.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club<\/a> in a new role, with additional details coming &#8220;soon.&#8221; He notched 46 goals and 37 assists, a Modern Era record, over nine seasons with the team. Fenandes, 33, also helped the Rowdies secure two USL Championship Eastern Conference trophies and became the club&#8217;s first Player of the Year in 2022 after tallying a career-best 19 goals and nine assists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 22, 2025 &#8211; Tampa Bay Rowdies midfielder Leo Fernandes announced Wednesday that he will retire following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-18169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169","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=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}