{"id":43320,"date":"2024-03-25T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=43320"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:28:16","slug":"florida-tropics-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/03\/25\/florida-tropics-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Tropics update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"581\" height=\"700\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/The-Tropics-SC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-697\" style=\"width:239px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/The-Tropics-SC.png 581w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/The-Tropics-SC-249x300.png 249w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter seven seasons of play in the Major Arena Soccer League, the Florida Tropics no longer plan to call RP Funding Center home,\u201d team CEO Dr. Panos Lakovidis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said recent rent hikes proposed by city and arena leaders were \u201cexorbitant\u201d and make staying in Lakeland \u201cfinancially unfeasible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two months later \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida Tropics is officially suspending operations and will not participate in the 2023-24 season. As a result of the suspension, all current Tropics\u2019 player contracts were voided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MASL will continue working with the Tropics ownership group to resume play in 2024-25 or sell the team to new operating owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 2024 update <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Website down, phone down and team CEO Dr. Panos Lakovidis can reach for any comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfter seven seasons of play in the Major Arena Soccer League, the Florida Tropics no longer plan to call RP Funding Center home,\u201d team CEO Dr. Panos Lakovidis. He said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[7929],"class_list":["post-43320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida-tropics-sc","tag-florida-tropics-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43321,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43320\/revisions\/43321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}