Winter Park-native and Stetson grad Charles Ahl has made a big impression in his rookie season in the USL Championship. Ahl was the Atlantic Sun Player of the Year while at Stetson and spent several seasons in the Orlando City SC youth setup.

Ahl played for the UPSL National Champion AS Frenzi side in 2023 along with Yan Diomande who now features in the Bundesliga for RB Leipzig.

Ahl scored the equalizer in a nationally-televised ESPN match for the Riverhounds against Miami in July on the last kick of the match and has now become a regular for the Hounds. He scored this past week in the 2-1 to Tampa Bay at Al Lang Stadium.

We dive deep into Charles career progression and development to this point including talking about playing in Florida, what its like to latch on with a professional club and the impact of a coaching-legend like Bob Lilley on his development.

We wrap up a great weekend of USL Super League action for the three Florida sides including a thriller in Fort Lauderdale. We also ponder how bad both Tampa Bay and Miami FC really are? When Lewis Hilton and Sebastián Blanco are missing these two sides appear to be the two worst in the USL Championship at the moment.

Some quick thoughts.

We preview the three Florida sides in the USL Super League.

Born: October 19, 2005

Current Team: SD Logroñés

Connection to Florida: born here, he has since moved to Europe where he’s climbing the ranks in football - and working on his Reybandz

Instagram: mauricioreygadas_

We discuss the latest with the Tampa Bay Rowdies, Miami FC and FC Naples before discussing the off-season so far in the USL Super League.

Tampa Bay is looking more and more like a playoff team and given the poor quality and recent dips from several of the other sides in the eastern conference, It’s looking like the Rowdies recovery is almost complete.

Our James Knowles sits down with Scotland International Georgia Brown to discuss her journey to Jacksonville, including her college career at USF, and her call ups to the Scotland Women’s (Youth) National Team.

A YouTube video of this podcast can be found here or below.

I wasn’t able to attend tonight’s match due to coverage of Major League Cricket but streamed the match on an iPad and have some observations.

Fourth of July Soccer in Florida.