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Originally posted by Truegunner:
I just found out that no club gets relegated from the peru first division.
I've done a test game with Peru, and I definitely got a new team - they were pretty good, but newly promoted nonetheless.
If you just look at the Peruvian league table in FM08, it might look like no club gets relegated because they have an "Opening" and "Closing" stage of the season as many South American leagues do - and the Opening/Closing league table is what is automatically shown. However, if you click on "Table" and then "League Table", it shows an overall league table, the bottom club of which gets relegated and replaced. CD Jose Galvez are the new club in my test game, while Arequipa Total were relegated. :thup:
10-22-2007, 12:31 AM
iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #12
I'll definently try this at some stage, especially since I'm already managing in Brazil in my own game.
I think Brazil would surely be the hardest to complete the challenge with as I know the smallest sides have no money/players and so it's a battle to even get a squad together.
All part of the fun though!
10-22-2007, 10:39 AM
iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #13
I ve decided to come up with what I think will be the challenges in each different country.
Argentina: Breaking up the dominanace of River and Boca to win the title will be very difficult. Although they are not the only ones who win the league, they win it most often and the teams who break up the dominance are also very strong and traditional like Estudiantes, Independiente, Velez, San Lorenzo and Racing.
Brazil: Getting out of the ridiculous Third Division!! You have to be better than 122 teams to go up and have to be very good and have look as the competition is a bit like a cup. From there on it should be slightly easier, although all the teams are pretty even so dominating the league will be difficult.
Chile: Its the leuagu from which I know the least, but what I know is that Colo Colo and the two Universidads dominate it and it will be difficult to break that up.
Colombia: From past experience I remember that getting promoted from the league is very difficult as only one team go up after a kind of playoff system after the league. The positives about Colombia are that there is a lot of talent, but it is difficult to keep hold of them as the league isnt one of the strongests in South America.
Mexico: This is the richest league and you can attract a lot of talent with the money, but like Colombia it is very difficult to get to the top league. You have to win the open or closing stage to then play a final and get promoted. I remember winning the closing stage two seasons in a row and then losing the final twice!!
Peru: Promotion is not the problem there as you go straight into the first division!! But breaking the trio of Alianza, Sporting Cristal and Universitario is extremely difficult. When I played with Cienciano (considered the 4th best team in the league, they even won the Copa Sudamericana) I failed to break into the top three (qualifiers for LIbertadores) for 5 seasons in a row. Peruvian teams are also the worst by far in relation to the rest of the South American available leagues so winning the Libertadores would be very difficult.
Uruguay: Another league of which I dont have too much knowledge about, but again breaking into the top three of Nacional, Penarol and the recent force Danubio could prove very difficult.
All in all I think that promotion in this challenge will be very difficult as most leagues dont offer too many relegation spots to protect the big teams if they have a bad season.
It will also be very difficult to beat these big teams and every league has their superpowers who are very dominant.
Ok, hopefully my holiday man has got me to the end of the year now...
10-22-2007, 06:45 PM
iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #19
I like the idea iseemonsters, unfortunately this challenge will come third in the challenges i attempt!
Currently doing Dafuge's, then it's my mate Gundo's and finally yours.
Best of luck everyone :thup:
10-22-2007, 07:18 PM
iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #20
Originally posted by corinthiano:
This holidaying is taking so long....
I ve decided to come up with what I think will be the challenges in each different country.
Argentina: Breaking up the dominanace of River and Boca to win the title will be very difficult. Although they are not the only ones who win the league, they win it most often and the teams who break up the dominance are also very strong and traditional like Estudiantes, Independiente, Velez, San Lorenzo and Racing.
Brazil: Getting out of the ridiculous Third Division!! You have to be better than 122 teams to go up and have to be very good and have look as the competition is a bit like a cup. From there on it should be slightly easier, although all the teams are pretty even so dominating the league will be difficult.
Chile: Its the leuagu from which I know the least, but what I know is that Colo Colo and the two Universidads dominate it and it will be difficult to break that up.
Colombia: From past experience I remember that getting promoted from the league is very difficult as only one team go up after a kind of playoff system after the league. The positives about Colombia are that there is a lot of talent, but it is difficult to keep hold of them as the league isnt one of the strongests in South America.
Mexico: This is the richest league and you can attract a lot of talent with the money, but like Colombia it is very difficult to get to the top league. You have to win the open or closing stage to then play a final and get promoted. I remember winning the closing stage two seasons in a row and then losing the final twice!!
Peru: Promotion is not the problem there as you go straight into the first division!! But breaking the trio of Alianza, Sporting Cristal and Universitario is extremely difficult. When I played with Cienciano (considered the 4th best team in the league, they even won the Copa Sudamericana) I failed to break into the top three (qualifiers for LIbertadores) for 5 seasons in a row. Peruvian teams are also the worst by far in relation to the rest of the South American available leagues so winning the Libertadores would be very difficult.
Uruguay: Another league of which I dont have too much knowledge about, but again breaking into the top three of Nacional, Penarol and the recent force Danubio could prove very difficult.
All in all I think that promotion in this challenge will be very difficult as most leagues dont offer too many relegation spots to protect the big teams if they have a bad season.
It will also be very difficult to beat these big teams and every league has their superpowers who are very dominant.
Ok, hopefully my holiday man has got me to the end of the year now...
Thanks for that Corinthiano. I went on holiday and ended up being the manager of some team begining with 'A' in the Argentinian second league. I am currently coming 4th after 13 games