iseemonsters

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:

Denial

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!

danny.harv

I don't have FM08 yet so I can't do this challenge but can I take part on FM 07 and show my progress in this thread?

corinthiano

I am most definetly in!!!

And as I am Brazilian myself I will be going for Brazil

Just holydaying now and will let you know what team I am in a bit :thup:

iseemonsters: Are you doing the challenge as well? Which country are you choosing?

Gundo

Something new and fresh for the South American fans at last. :thup:

aaberdeenn

Sometime soon I can see there being one of these for each continent. :thup:

Would be a great challenge to try and complete all of them.

Should try this at some point. :thup:

brambleten

will probably try this after i get 08 and have done evertonbloke's round the world challenge

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...

cookie15

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:

danny.harv

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