Mark Ochieng
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Clint Odhiambo Ochieng | ||
| Date of birth | 9 December 1996[1][2] | ||
| Place of birth | Nairobi, Kenya[1] | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right back, winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Hume City | ||
| Youth career | |||
| West Torrens Birkalla | |||
| 2011–2012 | FFSA NTC | ||
| 2014–2018 | Adelaide United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013 | AIS | 14 | (1) |
| 2014–2018 | Adelaide United | 22 | (1) |
| 2015–2018 | Adelaide United NPL | 45 | (3) |
| 2018 | Adelaide Comets | 9 | (0) |
| 2019 | Dandenong City | 10 | (0) |
| 2019–2020 | Hume City | 18 | (1) |
| 2020 | Adelaide Olympic | 8 | (1) |
| 2021– | Hume City | 90 | (2) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012 | Australia U17 | 2 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 September 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 September 2012 | |||
Mark Ochieng is a Kenyan-Australian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Hume City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria.
Early life
[edit]Ochieng's father played international football for Kenya. After growing up in Nairobi, the family moved to Plympton, South Australia when Ochieng was nine, where his father worked as an electrician.[3]
Club career
[edit]Adelaide United
[edit]He made his senior professional debut for Adelaide United FC in the 2014 FFA Cup in a match against Wellington Phoenix FC at the Marden Sports Complex on 5 August 2014.[4] Adelaide won the match 1–0 in regulation time.
On 12 January 2017, Ochieng scored his first goal for Adelaide against Melbourne City, the 87th-minute strike helping Adelaide United to just their second win of the season.
Ochieng was released by Adelaide United in May 2018.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "AIS Men's Football – Mark Ochieng". www.ausport.gov.au. Archived from the original on 12 February 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Jai Bednall (24 July 2014). "Adelaide United's Mark Ochieng will start in Friday night's game against La Liga side Malaga at Adelaide Oval". The Advertiser. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "Adelaide United vs Wellington Phoenix, Westfield FFA Cup, Round of 32, 5th Aug 2014". FFA Cup. 31 July 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
- ^ "Adelaide United's Ben Garuccio confirmed as signing at Scotland's Heart of Midlothian". The Advertiser. 25 May 2018.
External links
[edit]- Mark Ochieng profile AdelaideUnited.com.au
- Mark Ochieng at Soccerway
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Men's association football midfielders
- Men's association football defenders
- Australian men's soccer players
- Kenyan men's footballers
- Australia men's youth international soccer players
- Adelaide United FC players
- A-League Men players
- National Premier Leagues players
- Australian people of Kenyan descent
- Footballers from Nairobi
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- 21st-century Kenyan sportsmen
- Australian soccer biography stubs