Columbia graduate and car-dealership owner Tim Kelly helped found Chattanooga FC in 2009. The NPSL team has averaged several thousand fans per game since it started operations and reached, andlost, four championship games. It runs operations on a very lean budget and does not employ professional players. One of the team’s founders, general manager Sean McDaniel, oversees aremarkable success story.
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