{"id":263418,"date":"2026-05-08T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:12:07","slug":"transforming-the-beautiful-game-the-clyde-best-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263418\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTransforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story\u201d documentary featuring former Tampa Bay Rowdies star and 1975 NASL Champion Clyde Best is coming to The Palladium Theater on May 7-9 for its U.S. premiere. This acclaimed documentary covers Best\u2019s rise from 17-year-old Bermudian at West Ham as the first black superstar of the modern TV era in England to his years with the Tampa Bay Rowdies including the NASL Soccer Bowl \u201975 championship.<\/p>\n<p>The movie includes a panel discussion and Q&amp;A after the film featuring Clyde Best and other former Tampa Bay Rowdies and international soccer stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTransforming the Beautiful Game: The Clyde Best Story\u201d documentary featuring former Tampa Bay Rowdies star and 1975 NASL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-263418","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\/263418","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=263418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}