Jimmy Obleda would certainly have liked a result of his Chattanooga Red Wolves away game against Fort Lauderdale CF on Saturday night, when the tie left him fifth in the USL League One standings.
Otherwise, the Florida guys deserve to have brought only good memories to the coach.
Miami’s dominance stopover for the Red Wolves also marked a return to a position where Obleda once called home, having played for the A-League’s Fort Lauderdale Strikers, which was the highest football department in the United States at the time..
“I’m excited, ” said Obleda last week.” I enjoyed living in Florida and the time I played here, I enjoyed betting on Fort Lauderdale.I love the city. I’ve made some very intelligent friends and other people I follow.in touch with.
“When you’re not there, you are the (water) canals, the boats, and it reminds you of the good memories of being here and betting on the Strikers.”
He described a stated purpose in a game opposed to that of the Haitian national team, one played in front of 60,000 enthusiasts at the now-defunct Orange Bowl in Miami, his greatest delight in his time there.
So many things have replaced since he left. David Beckham, one of the world’s leading football players since retiring from the competition, has taken Inter Miami CF to Major League Soccer, and the first-year expansion team is lately in the same place Obleda played in the Florida era.The Red Wolves and Fort Lauderdale played on Saturday.
“There’s no way they’re going to fail, is there?” Obleda joked last week about Inter Miami CF and then said of Beckham: “Everything she touches turns to gold.He sees what the vision of the football product is in the box and brings the quality of the coach, and actually the investment in the stadium.”and redo everything on a more modern level.”
The Red Wolves are 2-2-3 under Obleda, a former youth coach in his first year leading a professional team, in the middle of the season.Like last year in their inaugural campaign, the Red Wolves have been much bigger at home, where they are 2-1, than on the road, where they still have to win in 2020, having won three draws and suffered a loss.
Chattanooga’s next game is on Wednesday’s New England Revolution II at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and the Red Wolves will face the Richmond Kickers at 1 p.m.Saturday at CHI Memorial Stadium in East Ridge.
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