Need Help Please

Ok Im starting a new game and im going to begin as an international manager.

However none of the teams on the original list take my fancy...ive read peoples story on teams such as San Marino & Cook Islands yet cant seem to choose teams like them. Is there anyway you can select additional countries to manage?

Start a new game and load up all players from whichever country takes your fancy. For some nations they're aren't enough players in the db initially to able to manage them.

ah ok thanks for your help...i will try that now

wales is a very good challenge good youngsters and well only one world cup apearance ever...mind you semi final in your first ever attempt is good until a certain 17 yr old brazilian named pele scores the winner

I believe you can only manage a nation if there is at least 150 players from that nation in the game. I've been managing Martinique, but they're only available because all the players have dual French nationality (but they aren't eligible for competitive matches on the game).

If you want to manage a random nation e.g Cook Islands, you'll have to load all their players at the start of the game. I've done this with Ghana because I'd eventually like to manage them but I've noticed that because the Ghanaian Leagues aren't available on FM09, which means there aren't that many team in the database, there's loads of Ghanaians floating around in Brazilian, Romanian, Ukranian etc teams when there otherwise wouldn't have been...