{"id":292363,"date":"2026-09-23T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292363\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:44:08","slug":"riverhounds-to-host-pittsburgh-spirit-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292363\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverhounds to host Pittsburgh Spirit Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Riverhounds will host a Pittsburgh Spirit Reunion during their match against Hartford Athletic at 7 p.m. on Oct. 10 at F.N.B. Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The event marks 40 years since the disbandment of the Pittsburgh Spirit, which was active from 1978 to 1986. The team was one of six founding member clubs of the Major Indoor Soccer League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Riverhounds players will wear Spirit-inspired warm-up jerseys during pregame activities. Those jerseys, along with Spirit-themed hats, scarves and T-shirts, will be available for purchase during the match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Former Spirit players expected to attend the reunion events include Paul Child, Dave MacKenzie, Bobby Vosmaer and Joe Luxbacher, along with head coach John Kowalski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A VIP Welcome Event featuring a catered dinner will take place Oct. 9 at F.N.B. Stadium. Tickets are $55 per person, with registration available online at <a href=\"https:\/\/PittsburghSpirit.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/PittsburghSpirit.com\">PittsburghSpirit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Riverhounds will host a Pittsburgh Spirit Reunion during their match against Hartford Athletic at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77542,121171,121172,73,75,74,22328,121170],"class_list":["post-292363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-f-n-b-stadium","tag-hartford-athletic","tag-major-indoor-soccer-league","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-riverhounds","tag-pittsburgh-spirit-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}