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Old 10-22-2007, 08:18 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #21
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After looking at all 32 promoted sides (it took a while) I decided to go for Interporto from the the Tocantins State. I decided to go for a club from the least traditional states because it seemed more fun. I dont think a team from Tocantins has ever even reached the Second League, the state is less than 20 years old so there is time for that.

Here is my profile.

I chose my past experience to the lowest possible (semi-pro), so I dont know why my reputation is natonal...

I have no players and no staff but Bom Jesus (GO) as a feeder club which is pretty pointless at the moment...
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Old 10-22-2007, 08:40 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #22
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I am on 07 BTW.

Oh, crap. I never posted my profile.

I don't like Argie Bargie anyway.

I might start again in Brasil.
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Old 10-22-2007, 08:45 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #23
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I knew it was going to be dafuge & Gundo's challenge with a South American theme, but I didn't know about Mexico so I've learnt something today :thup:.

Excellently thought out and presented challenge.

Well done :thup:.
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Old 10-22-2007, 09:02 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #24
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Looks interesting, I've never played in South America before but this might give me the inspiration to do so, once I've had a good crack at dafuge's and Gundo's challenges of course.

I'm surprised no-one has made a "small club to big club from a big nation in Europe other than England" challenge yet
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Old 10-22-2007, 09:21 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #25
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Thanks for all the positive comments everyone - though I should really take very little credit for the idea for this challenge, since it was pretty much a natural progression from Dafuge and Gundo's challenges. :thup:

Denial - I think you might be right - Brazil is the only country with three playable levels, and some of the teams that come up are really tiny. On the plus side, it looks like loads of teams are promoted to the lowest level, so there should be plenty of variety of teams for people to choose from. As you say, it should be fun!

danny.harv - Since there isn't an FM07 thread to point you towards for this challenge (like there is for Dafuge's/Gundo's challenge), I don't see why not.

Corinthiano - Good guide there and great to have you on board! I will definitely be taking part - I think I might start in Mexico, since I've wanted to get a long term game going there for a while. However, the Brazilian league is incredibly tempting!

In all my test games the lowest reputation I could get to come up in South American games was national, no matter what I did, so this may be the base level for this challenge - when the past experience was set to "Automatic", it was sometimes coming up as Continental, which is why I specified choosing the lowest available level.

cookie15 Fair enough - I had a feeling that quite a few people would want to start with Dafuge or Gundo's challenge before moving on to this one! Still, I thought it was good to give people the option - and hopefully there will be enough interest to keep it going until those people who are starting with other challenges are ready to play!

Again, thanks for the positive comments and good luck to all. :thup:
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Old 10-22-2007, 09:34 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #26
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My Mexico game is all ready to go, so I'm the proud new manager of the only club promoted to the Mexican First Division A, Club Caneros de Zacatepec.

Here's my profile.

They actually look like a pretty decent side, with an 18000 all seater stadium and average facilities. No players and minimal staff though, and a transfer budget of just £1k means that I'm about to go on a free transfer signing spree.
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Old 10-22-2007, 11:19 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #27
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Originally posted by iseemonsters:
My Mexico game is all ready to go, so I'm the proud new manager of the only club promoted to the Mexican First Division A, Club Caneros de Zacatepec.

Here's my profile.

They actually look like a pretty decent side, with an 18000 all seater stadium and average facilities. No players and minimal staff though, and a transfer budget of just £1k means that I'm about to go on a free transfer signing spree.
Good luck in Mexico :thup:

Be careful with the foreigner quota, in FM07 it didnt specify anything in the rules part of the league but when you went to register players you could only register 4 foreigners.
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Old 10-22-2007, 11:35 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #28
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13 days after my appointment there was the first competitive fixture in the Tocantins State Championship. It is a 10 team league where you play against each other twice, the first placed team wins it and the last one gets relegated. It is a really poor Championship with only 3 Third Division sides in it, which not surprisingly finished as the top 3 last year.

My team finished 4th last year but all I wanted was no relegation as I had no players. In my first game I played against Colinas, runners up last year and managed to only loose 2-1 at home which I was happy about.

I only have a £350 weekly budget and was starting to worry about how I was going to sign players when my request for a parent club was answered. There were two Second League teams and a First Division side. I thought the Second Tier sides would have been more likely to send me players but I couldnt refuse my dream parent club.

To my surpirse they already lined up two players to come on loan to me which could be my salvation...
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Old 10-22-2007, 11:43 PM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #29
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Quote:
Originally posted by corinthiano:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by iseemonsters:
My Mexico game is all ready to go, so I'm the proud new manager of the only club promoted to the Mexican First Division A, Club Caneros de Zacatepec.

Here's my profile.

They actually look like a pretty decent side, with an 18000 all seater stadium and average facilities. No players and minimal staff though, and a transfer budget of just £1k means that I'm about to go on a free transfer signing spree.
Good luck in Mexico :thup:

Be careful with the foreigner quota, in FM07 it didnt specify anything in the rules part of the league but when you went to register players you could only register 4 foreigners. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks! The other problem is the fact that you have to have 5 players under the age of 23 in your first 11 - I usually like to have a lot of young players, but it's been pretty hard to find many good U-23 players on free transfers.

£350 per week?!! Whoa, you're going to have trouble assembling a squad on that!! Sounds like fun though. And congrats on the Corinthians link (I didn't even have to look at the screenshot to guess who your new parent club would be :p )

Best of luck with Interporto! :thup:
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Old 10-23-2007, 12:51 AM   iseemonsters' FM08 Small club to big club South American challenge Post #30
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Ok, I think you can call Interporto "Corinthians Juniors" now as I have signed over 20 of players of thei Reserve and Youth Teams all 20 years or younger, the best player being Johnny who scored two goals in his debut. I will post a screenie of him tomorrow.

This means I am paying no wages towards any players, but am still getting into debt due to my staffs salaries I think. The Corinthians link is going to have to be the solution until I figure out another way.

I can remember the problem with the Under 23s now, it was actually linked with the whole foreigners thing in a way. I played as Leon and Puebla on 07, two better sides in the league and with the money they had I could lure some very good Brazilian oldsters but couldnt get in all of them due to the two rules. I found on 07 that the general talent of the mexican players is pretty poor. Would you say that its the same for 08?
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