Juan Hernandez has put in a great shift for the Chattanooga Football Club.
After eight seasons playing for CFC, which included 126 matches and over 10,000 minutes played on the soccer field, Hernandez will hang up his playing cleats at the age of 33.
Perhaps the club’s most popular player may not have arrived in Chattanooga if not for a spur of the moment trip.
“I came here for the sole reason to visit my friend Samuel Goni who was playing for CFC at the time,” Hernandez said. “I asked coach Bill Elliott at the time if I could train one day with the team, and he said yes. At the end of practice coach asked if I wanted to stay on the team. It was a no brainer because the other team I was supposed to play for that year contacted me last minute and said they no longer had a spot. That was a major blessing because after that, the rest is history.”