The 1979 Tampa Bay Rowdies indoor season was the fifth indoor season of the club's existence.
| 1979 indoor season | |||
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| Owner |  George Strawbridge, Jr. | ||
| General manager | Chas Serednesky, Jr | ||
| Manager |  Gordon Jago | ||
| Stadium | Bayfront Center | ||
| Budweiser Indoor Invitational | runner up | ||
| Top goalscorer | League:  Mirandinha (4 goals)All:  Steve Wegerle, Mirandinha (5 goals) | ||
| Highest home attendance | 6,342 (Jan. 27 vs. Ft. Lauderdale) | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 6,002 (Feb 2 vs. Houston) | ||
| Average home league attendance | 6,181 | ||
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Overview edit
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 edit
Roster edit
| No. | Position | Player | Nation |
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| 1 | GK | Winston DuBose | United States
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| 2 | GK | Željko Bilecki |  Canada
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| 3 | DF | Malcolm Chandler* | England
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| 4 | DF | Arsène Auguste |  Haiti
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| 5 | MF | Jan van der Veen |  Netherlands
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| 6 | DF | Mike Connell |  South Africa
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| 7 | FW | Steve Wegerle | South Africa
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| 8 | MF | Wes McLeod | Canada
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| 10 | MF | Rodney Marsh (capt.) | England
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| 11 | FW | Mirandinha | Brazil
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| 12 | MF | Perry Van der Beck | United States
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| 13 | FW | Dave MacWilliams | United States
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| 14 | FW | Peter Chandler | United States
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| 15 | MF | Timothy Collins* |  Ireland
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| 16 | DF | Farrukh Quraishi | England
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| 17 | DF | Tony Crudo | United States
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| 18 | DF | Sandje Ivanchukov | United States
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| 19 | MF | Tommy Maurer | United States
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| 23 | DF | Teun Kist* | Netherlands
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*trialist players
Management and technical staff edit
George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner- Chas Serednesky, Jr., general manager
Gordon Jago, head coach- Ken Shields, trainer
- Alfredo Beronda, equipment manager
Honors edit
- Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational: runners-up
Competitions edit
Invitational final standings edit
GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, GD = Goal Differential
| 1979 Budweiser Indoor Soccer Invitational | ||||||
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| 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 edit
Match reports edit
| January 25, 1979 1 | Houston Hurricane | 4–6 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | Houston, Texas |
| 8:00 PM (CST) | Vaccaro  15:17' (O’Sullivan)Russell 18:26'Russell 34:57' (Marasco)Vasquez 48:57' (Stremlau) |
Report on p. 2C | Wegerle 00:44' (Marsh) Van der Beck 24:28'Marsh 24:51' (Connell)Wegerle 31:02'Connell 44:37'Wegerle 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 9:16' Mirandinha 11:50' (McLeod)Mirandinha 20:44' (Maurer) Maurer 26:38' (Marsh)Wegerle 27:43' (Marsh)Quraishi 28:25' (Mirandinha) |
Report 1 Report 2 |
Njie 20:33' (Wiggemansen) Gemeri 24:37'Njie 30:21' (Wiggemansen)Vaninger 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 1:49' (Wegerle) Mirandinha 17:50' (Marsh)Mirandinha 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 00:17' McLeod 25:26'Marsh 28:12'Mirandinha 31:48' (Marsh)McLeod 43:44' (Quraishi)Quraishi 54:38' (McLeod) |
Report | Jump 3:12' (Stremlau) Anderson 8:04' (Haaskivi)Stremlau 9:40' (Anderson)Jump 12:07' (Lindsay)Lindsay 18:14' (Megaloudis)Lindsay 20:38' (Jump)Haaskivi 27:51'Anderson 29:03' (Megaloudis)Jump 33:33' (Stremlau)Lindsay 33:50'Charbonneau 34:55' (Haaskivi) Anderson 41:14', Jump'Maurer, (T.B.) 49:12' (o.g.)Anderson 35:25' (Megaloudis)Anderson 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 | Kist 25:32' |
Report on p. 5C | Gershkovich 1:49' Lovchev 4:43' (Gershkovich)Latysh 12:51'Yakubik 15:47' (Maksimenkov)Latysh 18:29'Reznik 35:25' (Latysh)Reznik 46:36' (Latysh)Maksimenkov 56:00' (Gershkovich) |
Stadium: Bayfront Center Attendance: 6,040 |
Statistics edit
Scoring edit
G = Goals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point), Pts = Points
| Player | G | A | Pts |
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| 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 |
| Teun Kist | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Winston DuBose | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Goalkeeping edit
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 |
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| Winston DuBose | 5 | 250 | 23 | 5.52 | 3 | 1 |
| Željko Bilecki | 1 | 20 | 5 | 15.00 | 0 | 1 |
Player movement edit
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ Tierney, Mike (April 3, 1978). "NASL approves official indoor league in 1979". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Tierney, Mike (January 20, 1979). "Rowdies want to come indoors". St. Petersburg Times. p. 3C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Tierney, Mike (January 25, 1979). "Rowdies hope to hold onto goalie". St. Petersburg Times. p. 4C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ "Rowdies roll 6-4". St. Petersburg Times. January 26, 1979. p. 1C. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ "Indoor Returning, Officially This Time". Evening Independent. September 28, 1979. p. 4-C. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Beard, Randy (February 3, 1979). "Bayfront Turned Slaughterhouse". The Evening Independent. p. 1–C. Retrieved January 2, 2017 – via Google News Archive Search.