Chattanooga Football Club goalkeeper Greg Hartley made some crucial saves in the team’s playoff win over the Georgia Revolution on Friday.After winning the National Premier Soccer League’s Southeast Conference championship late Friday night, the Chattanooga Football Club has had some time to bask in its accomplishment.
The fourth-year club advanced to the NPSL Championships for the second time in three years and also qualified for the 2013 U.S. Open Cup. Chattanooga FC (7-1-3), the Southeast Western Division champions, did so by beating East champion Georgia Revolution 1-0 Friday at the RYSA Soccerplex in Conyers, Ga.
Luis Trude scored the game’s only goal midway through the second half, but first-year coach Bill Elliott said it was the play of goalkeeper Greg Hartley that led CFC to the win and a spot in the championships later this month in San Diego.
“Definitely I think anybody who saw the match would say that Greg Hartley was the man of the match,” Elliott said Sunday.
After a CFC tackle in the box earned the Revolution a penalty kick late in the first half, Hartley made a momentum-shifting save to keep the game scoreless. CFC was a different team after that, Elliott said.