Dayton, May 17, 2018– Dayton Dutch Lions FC’s Men’s team is opening the 2018 USL PDL season on Friday evening 7pm with a home game vs West Virginia Chaos. The game will be played at DOC Stadium at West Carrollton High School.
Last year West Virginia Chaos finished third in the strong Great Lakes Conference with a 7-6-1 record, trailing Michigan Bucks and K-W United FC. The team is coached by Romain Folz, who was appointed as Head Coach on February 1st of 2018. Folz is a native of Bordeaux, France.
DDL’s Head Coach Dan Griest also enters the season as newly appointed Head Coach. He had this to say on the upcoming home opener: “I am extremely excited to get started on our journey tomorrow evening. It has been a very intense and competitive three weeks of training for the group, and I am very hopeful their hard work and effort will be rewarded with a quality result. We have compiled a very quick, skilled, and exciting group who should be able to play some tremendously up-tempo, technical, attacking soccer, and I would encourage any and all soccer fans in the Dayton area to come out enjoy it as we kick-off our season tomorrow evening”.
Tickets for the game can be purchased at the gate. For more information please contact Ric Campbell at r.campbell@ddlfc.com.