retired_grahamtl18

Impressive! I'm really struggling playing Foligno. Trying desperately to avoid relegation in my first season although I'm still only in February.

retired_DinoSaadeh

Nice one. :thup: Good luck for the next season

retired_sofialong

KUTGW :thup:

creative36

Rest Of The World Update
World Cup 2010:
Group stages : Germany and Czech Republic are the only big teams to drop out here. Saudi Arabia win the coveted 'No Points, No Goals' award.
Second Round : Mexico are beaten by Portugal in extra time. The other big team to drop out are Italy whose coma-inducing match against Holland ends with penalties.
Q/Finals : Argentina 1 - 0 Brazil (lucky) ; Holland 2 - 1 Portugal ; Ecuador 2 - 1 France (deserved, however strange). Oddest of all is Spain time-wasting their way through their 2-0 defeat to England; they started off doing it, and even going 2 goals down didn't stop them. Hmmm.
S-Finals : Argentina 6 - 0 Ecuador (having 2 players sent off didn't help, but the AI got its tactics horribly wrong ; Holland 2 - 3 England.
3rd/4th Playoff : Holland 5 - 0 Ecuador (3 red cards did the damage this time)
Final : Argentina 0 - 2 England.

EURO Cup:
2006/7 : Valencia 0 - 2 FC Bayern
2007/8 : Everton p1 - 1 Brondby
2008/9 : Man Utd 1 - 0 Paris
2009/10 : Feyenoord 5 - 3 Partizan

Champions Cup:
2006/7 : Milan 2 - 1 Arsenal
2007/8 : Barcelona p1 - 1 Chelsea
2008/9 : Arsenal 3 - 1 Chelsea
2009/10 : Inter 2 - 1 Arsenal

No huge surprises in the leagues, although AA Gent winning 3 successive titles might raise an eyebrow. Huddersfield, Romorantin and Siegen have both won 2 promotions to make it into the top flight - Siegen having already been relegated / promoted out and back into the Bundesliga. Lorca made the jump to the Spanish First Division only 5 years after being founded.

And finally, spare a thought for poor old San Marino. Still the worst national team in Europe, without a goal in 4 years.

retired_DinoSaadeh

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creative36

At the risk of appearing to be a potbooting poof (heaven forbid), I have some news to report:

Clearly my failure to progress year-on-year with a team is impressing people in power because with an Unproven reputation and without having applied for it, I've just been offered the Italian national job.

Dot. Dot. Dot.

retired_lapepe

WTF!?!

retired_dvrsecuritylab

It's because you're the only manager in Italy who isn't up on a corruption charge

retired_ms nichole montalvo

They'll get him eventually.

creative36

Season 5: FOligno, Italy Serie C1/B
28 players left in the summer - most of them were kicked - and 12 joined. All our major signings were Bosmans from French clubs with the exception of an Italian DLC who'd annoyed me while on loan at a rival club previously. My non-EU signing went on a Bulgarian ST who was pants. The board took out a loan to cover our debt which gave me just enough moolah to spend a whopping £7k on a ST from a non-league Italian team.

Serie C1/B: A solid start to the season had us 2nd after 12 games, which would probably have been better if teams hadn't faced us with 10 men behind the ball. '1-0 to the Foligno', as the chant presumably goes. A 1-1 draw with Foggia before Christmas was the start of a 10-match run in which we won 2, drew 4 and lost 4 - the low point being a 4-1 loss to runaway leaders Sambenedettese (with their obligatory plethora of loanees). A much stronger field than previous seasons made the run-in fairly tense, although an undefeated streak left us needing 2 points from our last 3 games to secure a Playoff spot, a task we managed.
You'll have to imagine my joy at being drawn against the dreaded Arezzo in the Playoff Semi-Final. We lost 3-2 harshly in the away leg and a 16th minute goal from our Austrian ST (now a full international) set up 74 minutes of what I assumed would be squeaky-bum stuff. Strangely, Arezzo just defended and we won on higher league position to face Taranto in the Final. A 4-0 win in the first leg became a 5-0 lead after 24 minutes and it was so easy after that I even had time to give my most promising FRED a 25 minute debut at the end.
Final Position: P:34 W:16 D:12 L:6 GD:+21 Pts:60 Pos:3rd. Promotion!

Serie C Cup: Qualifying easily from the group stage, we drew Val di Sangro - who we beat easily - and then Taranto - who we should have beaten easily. Yawn.

Italian Cup: Knocked out by AlbinoLeffe straight away. Harshly.

U-20s: I took control at the start of the season, leading the spotty brats to the League title with a couple of games to go. The big news, however, was getting my grubby hands on some silverware at last, as the motley bunch stormed through the U-20s Cup, beating Cesena (Serie A) in the Semis to set up a 4-0 demolition of Juventus in the Final. Boo-yah!

Losing my best ML in January to Pescara via a bug was annoying as his understudy left for France for a tidy sum straight afterwards. Frantic scrabbling through my scouts' lists got me a 20 year old Swiss AML/ST who filled the gap, nabbing a few goals. Amusingly, the U-20s Cup win took my Reputation to Local and the Playoff success took it to Regional. Obscure to Regional in 3 months. Hmm. My main striker got 17 goals while the Austrian picked up 10, including 6 in 6 at the end, when we needed them, but my valuable DM was easily my best and most consistent performer. Serie B beckons. Onwards and, err, upwards I guess.