FCTB Announces Kit Partnership With Lotto And Preseason Schedule
Published on February 24, 2010 under North American Soccer League (NASL)
Tampa Bay Rowdies News Release
We're one step closer to the start of the 2010 inaugural season! With the help of a few players, we unveiled our inaugural season uniforms, as well as the preseason schedule, today at Mainsail Suites. The complete custom designed uniforms, as well as cleats, training shoes and all training, travel and weather gear for the players and staff, will be produced by internationally known Lotto Team Sports. For the next three years, Lotto will be the team's uniform and official apparel partner, making Lotto a legacy corporate partner of FC Tampa Bay.
"FC Tampa Bay's partnership with Lotto signifies one of the most valuable deals in our league's history," said Andrew Nestor, team owner and president. "We welcome Lotto to our team and look forward to watching our players at Steinbrenner Field in these great kits."
With many of the players present and Julian Valentin and Adam Nowland modeling the new uniforms, we unveiled the custom home and away kits - both showcasing the green and gold stripes that the original Rowdies were so well known for. The home uniform consists of a white jersey with green and gold striped sleeves and white shorts along with the infamous green and gold socks. The away uniforms will showcase the green and gold striped jersey with green shorts and the striped socks.
Lotto now joins Mainsail Suites, the exclusive housing partner of the organization, as a business partner with FC Tampa Bay and will also be present at numerous of our grassroots events and TBR Academy programs over the next couple of years.
Lotto is an international soccer, tennis and fashion brand since 1973 that currently sponsors several major international soccer clubs, including Fiorentina, Palmero, the Colombia National team and Costa Rica National team. Lotto offers American made, Italian design for team uniforms, as well as technically innovative footwear including the Gravity shoe, which is the only laceless shoe in the world.
"Lotto is thrilled to partner with the FC Tampa Bay franchise," said Fabrizio Spampinato, director of sales for Lotto North America. "They have a deep, cherished history and it is a privilege to be a part of their re-emergence. We look forward to providing innovative designs in high-quality fabrics that both the FC Tampa Bay players and their fans will enjoy through the years."
Along with the inaugural season uniforms, we released the 2010 preseason schedule, which includes five games to be played around the Tampa Bay area.
The first match is on March 6 against University of Tampa at 7 p.m. at UT with proceeds benefiting the earthquake victims in Haiti. Our team will also play FC Dallas of Major League Soccer (MLS) on March 12 at 7:30 p.m. at UT, Philadelphia Union of MLS on March 19 at 7:30 p.m. at UT, University of Central Florida on March 26 at 7 p.m. at the Lake Myrtle Complex and University of South Florida on April 9 at 7 p.m. at the USF Soccer Complex.
The first regular season game for us will be on April 16 against Crystal Palace Baltimore at the UMBC Stadium in Baltimore and the first home game is May 8 at 7:30 p.m. against Austin Aztex at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
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