Well, Guatemala messed up.

I'm managing the United States and Tottenham right now, and just guided the US through the Gold Cup in 2013. My group was Panama, Guatemala, and the British Virgin Islands, so I obviously progressed very easily. How easily I would do so, however, I failed to realize until about 60 minutes into my group stage match with Guatemala. As I watched their goalkeeper give up an absurdly soft goal, I noticed that he was wearing #7, a peculiar number for a keeper. So I clicked on his profile, turns out he was a right midfielder. Easy victory for me! I thought it was just luck, maybe both of their goalkeepers got hurt or something before...after a glance at their roster for the tournament, I see that...oh wait, they didn't even select a keeper at all.

So, you'd think that Guatemala gets absolutely dominated in the whole tournament, right? Ha, wrong. They beat the British Virgin Islands 2-0 in their final match of the group stage, and with the Gold Cup being obscenely easy to progress in, they made it to the quarters, where they faced me again. This time, fully aware of their lack of a goalkeeper (and their lack of quality in general), I went 4-2-4, all-out attack, and scored 10 goals on 11 shots, winning 10-0.

Has anyone else had this happen? I mean, I HAVE a Guatemalan keeper in my reserves for Tottenham, so it's not like there aren't any in the game. They just completely failed to select one.

I have only seen it with the Ivory Coast iirc. I took over the national team only to fidn that there were no Ivorian GK's in the game (well, not in the leagues i had loaded anyway).

I think the Ivory Coast thing has been commented on before in other threads.

the ivory coast thing happened to me too grrrrrrrr I still beat namibia 4-0 though

In my game Jamaica have no keepers.

Never noticed this myself but then again i haven't done international management in a long time.

Off topic question - given your username how come you're managing Spurs?

I had this on FM07 with Bolivia, accepted that job, only to find there wasn't one Bolivian GK for me to select anywhere in the game, I played 2 games before resigning, it was an utter nonsense!

Never noticed this myself but then again i haven't done international management in a long time.

Off topic question - given your username how come you're managing Spurs?

I started off managing the US through the 2010 World Cup, then decided to take on the additional role of Rubin Kazan. It was a miserable 200+ days, so I quit around May 15th to find a job in England. I applied for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, and Dover Athletic. Spurs and Dover were the only ones to make offers, so it was Premier League with Spurs or Blue Square South. So I took the Spurs job, and right now (2013/14) I have them 6 points clear at the top (over Arsenal) with 10 matches left in the season.

Oh, and also, my second striker...Thierry Henry, who has 13 goals this year, after scoring 21 last year.

had this in fm2006 i think when i took over at Sweden, they had two goalkeepers. one was half Scottish and 37, the other was retired from international games.