-Chattanooga head coach Sean McDaniel is seen on the right in this file photo.Chris Ochieng wants to be on the field in the National Premier Soccer League championships. To get there, he and his Chattanooga Football Club teammates have to beat the RVC Football Club of Richmond, Va., tonight in the South Conference title game.
“I’m very glad that I’ve got this chance,” Ochieng said, “because I missed the last two.”
Ochieng helped CFC advance to the 2010 NPSL final four in Madison, Ala., but the Kenyan forward had to watch from the bench after suffering a broken ankle late in the season.
In 2012, Ochieng wasn’t on the CFC roster. He spent his summer playing in another league, for a team in Mississippi. He was rooting for his friends on the squad, but he wasn’t in uniform.
CFC (7-1-3) comes into tonight’s game having won two games in a row and riding a nine-game unbeaten streak. Ochieng said CFC is playing at its best at the end of the season.