La Liga 2: Job Ochieng’s winner moves Real Sociedad B away from drop zone

Kenya national team winger Job Ochieng gave Real Sociedad B all three points on Monday, with his second half winner propelling the top flight club’s reserve team to a 2-1 victory over Malaga in La Liga 2.

With the match level at 1-1 in the 68th minute, the Nairobi native got on the end of a Mikel Rodriguez corner kick and his header took a deflection on its way into the goal to put the hosts ahead at the Anoeta Stadium.

Facing a serious contender for promotion to La Liga in the form of visitors Malaga, the hosts were in for a difficult match and fell behind inside fifteen minutes when David Larrubia headed in from a Joaquin Muñoz cross. But Sanse leveled less than ten minutes later through Gorka Carrera.

The two teams wrestled for the full three points in the second half but it was Real Sociedad B who emerged victorious courtesy of Ochieng’s winner.

The flank player now has three goals this season and is continuing to make progress in the Sociedad system. After spending a season with the club’s “C” team in Spain’s fourth tier, the 23-year-old is now in his third season with the “B” team with 3 goals and 2 assists in 18 La Liga 2 matches this season.

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Notably, he also made his debut with the senior team earlier this month, coming on as a substitute in the 65th minute of Sociedad’s 3-1 La Liga victory over Elche on February 7. Four days later, he came off the bench for a very brief cameo in a 1-0 first leg victory at Athletic Bilbao in the Copa del Rey semifinals.

An interesting journey to Real Sociedad B

Ochieng began his club career in Spain with Club Deportivo Masapalomas on the Canary Islands. An inspiring story saw the player arrive in the Canaries at the age of 17, where Masapalomas first team coach Carlos Gaumet and the club’s president took care of Ochieng after he was abandoned by the organization that brought him to Spain.

In another sign of his career growth, the Kenya national team came calling and Job appeared four times for the Harambee Stars during 2026 World Cup qualifying since debuting as a substitute in a 1-3 defeat to The Gambia on September 5, 2025.