How childhood friends built a pro women's soccer team — from scratch

On the eve of its first ever game, a look at what it took to build the Tampa Bay Sun FC.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. August 16, 2024
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Tampa Bay Sun FC players playing all out at practice in Tampa before the first game in August.
Tampa Bay Sun FC players playing all out at practice in Tampa before the first game in August.
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When David Laxer was first approached about buying into a new soccer team in Tampa, he was a little hesitant.

He’d been part owner of the Tampa Bay Rowdies for eight years and learned, as he says, that owning a sports team was not as glamorous as it might appear. 

 

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