San Marino - The Ultimate Challenge!

[Makoto Nakamura]

First off: What am I doing and Why am I doing this??

I am going through all the hardest challenges this game has too offer:

• Take a team from San Marino to win the European Champions Cup
• Use Youth Only, no signing ANY players
• Take the National Team to the European Championships
• Take the National Team to the World Cup
• Win the World Cup & European Chamiponships

And why am I doing this?

Well FM 12 has only just come out and I want to stretch it out, I want a game too last me until FM 13, and with using only Youth, I thinks that's reasonable.


Which team will I be?

I will manage Societa Sportiva San Giovanni.


Why San Giovanni?

San Giovanni are the ONLY Sammarinese team too have NEVER won any silverware!

Game Setup:


Database Size - Small
Player count - 2000
Game start date - San Marino - July 2011
Experience - Sunday League Footballer

Societa Sportiva San Giovanni



Nation - San Marino
Year Founded - 1948
Status - Amateur
Reputation - Regional
Nickname - San Giovanni
Chairman Status - Enjoying life at the club
Legends - Yasar Yazici
Icons - None
Favoured Personnel - None
Fierce Rivals - Pennarossa
Other Rivals - None
Finances - Okay
Average Ticket Price - £2.50
Average Season Ticket Price - £13.00
Season Ticket Holders - 62
Estimated Value - £26,000
Continental Competition - None
Media Prediction - 15th
Squad Personality - Ambitious



Facilities:

Name - Chiesanuova
Location - Chiesanuova
Capacity - 500 (250 seated)
Owned By - Pennarossa
Stadium Condition - Average
Under Soil Heating - No
Roof - No
Surface - Grass
Pitch Dimensions - Length: 94m, Width: 58m
Maximum Pitch Dimensions - Length: 107m, Width: 63m
Pitch Condition - Poor
Corporate Facilities - Basic Corporate Facilities
Training Facilities - Basic Training Facilities
Youth Facilities - Minimal Youth Facilities (Rented)
Junior Coaching - Minimal Junior Coaching
Youth Recruitment - Limited Youth Recruitment



Well that's my introduction done guys, hope you comment because every single comment gives me a little bit of inspiration to keep going!!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Year on Year Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio Rankings:

2011/12 - 483rd - Between Greek Amateur Division - Athens & Romanian Fourth League Ilfov
2012/13 - 488th - DOWN 5 - Between Swedish Third Division South Svealand & Andorran Cup
2013/14 - 492nd - DOWN 4 - Between Albanian Lower Category & Armenian First League
2014/15 - 487th - UP 5 - Between Swedish Third Division South Svealand & Kazakh First League
2015/16 - 477th - UP 10 - Between Croatian Fourth Division South B & Kazakh First League
2016/17 - 489th - DOWN 12 - Between Swedish Third Division South Svealand & Turkish Regional Amateur League
2017/18 - 423rd - UP 66 - Between Danish Series Group 3 & Moldovan Divizia A
2018/19 - 331st - UP 92 - Between Blue Square South & Slovenian Third League West
2019/20 - 321st - UP 10 - Between Blue Square South & Norwegian Third Division Group 1
2020/21 - 299th - UP 22 - Between Ukranian Second League & Greek Regional Division - 1* Reputation
2021/22 - 263rd - UP 36 - Between Israeli A League & Finnish Second Divison
2022/23 - 198th - UP 65 - Between Albanian First Category & Estonian First League
2023/24 - 151st - UP 47 - Between Icelandic First Division & Finnish First Division - 1 1/2* Reputation
2024/25 - 118th - UP 33 - Between Albanian Superleague & Hungarian Division II
2025/26 - 135th - DOWN 17 - Between Spanish Second Division B4 & Montenegrin Second League
2026/27 - 156th - DOWN 21 - Between Austrian Regional Division & Dutch Super Cup
2027/28 - 174th - DOWN 18 - Between Scottish Second Division & Latvian Higher League
2028/29 - 175th - DOWN 1 - Between Slovak Second Division & Albanian First Category
2029/30 - 138th - UP 37 - Between Azerbaycan Premyer Ligasi & Romanian Second League
2030/31 - 104th - UP 34 - Between Albanian Superleague & Spanish Second Division B - 2* Reputation
2031/32 - 78th - UP 26 - Between Albanian Superleague & Slovenian First Division
2032/33 - 79th - DOWN 1 - Between VISA-Bikar Kala & Vysshaya Liga
2033/34 - 58th - UP 21 - Between Liga Leumit & Vysshaya Liga - 2 1/2* Reputation
2034/35 -
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Year on Year San Marino National Team Rankings:

2012 - 208th - 5 points
2013 - 208th - 18 points
2014 - 205th - 26 points
2015 - 201st - 43 points
2016 - 208th - 29 points
2017 - 208th - 15 points
2018 - 208th - 7 points
2019 - 208th - 1 point
2020 - 208th - 0 points
2021 - 208th - 2 points
2022 - 208th - 5 points
2023 - 208th - 7 points
2024 - 208th - 17 points
2025 - 208th - 30 points
2026 - 208th - 45 points
2027 - 190th - 88 points
2028 - 156th - 167 points
2029 - 109th - 283 points
2030 - 125th - 220 points
2031 - 83rd - 361 points
2032 - 99th - 325 points
2033 - 89th - 336 points
2034 -
2035 -
2036 -
2037 -
2038 -
2039 -
2040 -

European Champions Cup Finals:

2011/12 - Olympique de Marseilles p0 - 0 Manchester City
2012/13 - F.C Internazionale 0 - 2 Real Madrid
2013/14 - Barcelona 4 - 0 Liverpool
2014/15 - Real Madrid p1 - 1 Liverpool
2015/16 - Liverpool 2 - 0 Manchester United
2016/17 - Liverpool 2 - 0 Olympique Lyonnais
2017/18 - Arsenal 2 - 1 Liverpool
2018/19 - Arsenal 2 - 0 Liverpool
2019/20 - FC Bayern 1 - 2 Real Madrid
2020/21 - Paris Saint-Germain e2 - 1 Chelsea
2021/22 - Manchester United 1 - 0 Fenerbache
2022/23 - Chelsea 1 - 1p - Inter
2023/24 - Barcelona 3 - 0 Arsenal
2024/25 - Chelsea 2 - 0 A.C Milan
2025/26 - Inter 2 - 2p Chelsea
2026/27 - Manchester United 0 - 2 Paris Saint-Germain
2027/28 - Porto 0 - 3 Barcelona
2028/29 - Liverpool 1 - 1p Chelsea
2029/30 - A.C Milan 1 - 0 Chelsea
2030/31 - Inter p1 - 1 At. Madrid
2031/32 - Sevilla 0 - 2 Chelsea
2032/33 - Barcelona 2 - 0 Inter
2033/34 -
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EURO Cup Finals:

2011/12 - Hannover 2 - 1 Paris Saint-Germain
2012/13 - Manchester City 2 - 1 Liverpool
2013/14 - Juventus 2 - 3e Olympique Lyonnais
2014/15 - Atletico Madrid 2 - 0 Sporting CP
2015/16 - Juventus 3 - 1 Beskitas
2016/17 - Werder Bremen 2 - 1 Juventus
2017/18 - Girondins Bordeaux 1 - 3 Wolfsburg
2018/19 - Manchester City 2 - 1 Zenit
2019/20 - Manchester City 3 - 1 Zenit
2020/21 - Sevilla e3 - 2 Sunderland
2021/22 - Sporting CP 2 - 1 AS Saint-Etienne
2022/23 - A.C. Milan 4 - 0 Porto
2023/24 - Girondins Bordeaux 2 - 0 At. Madrid
2024/25 - Sevilla 1 - 0 Valencia
2025/26 - Sporting CP 2 - 0 Shakhtar
2026/27 - Roma 2 - 0 Schalke
2027/28 - Manchester City 1 - 0 Olympique Marseille
2028/29 - Sevilla 2 - 1 Valencia
2029/30 - Porto 2 - 1 Liverpool
2030/31 - Roma 1 - 2 Valencia
2031/32 - Juventus 1 - 2e Sporting CP
2032/33 - A.C. Milan p1 - 1 At. Madrid
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World Cup Finals

2014 - Argentina 2 - 0 Belgium (England failed to Qualify)
2018 - France 2 - 1 Brazil (England beat Spain in the 3rd Place Playoff)
2022 - France 2 - 2p Italy (England lost on penalties to Chile in the 2nd Round)
2026 - Argentina 1 - 3 France (England lost to Italy in the 3rd Place Playoff)
2030 - Germany 2 - 1 Brazil (England lost to France in the 2nd Round)
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European Championship Finals

2012 - Spain 3 - 1 Germany (England lost 2-1 to Germany in the Semis)
2016 - Ukraine 1 - 2 Czech Republic (England lost on penalties to Denmark in the 2nd Round)
2020 - Czech Republic 1 - 3e Spain (England lost 3-1 to Spain in the 2nd Round)
2024 - Italy 1 - 0 Romania (England lost 3 - 0 to Italy in the Semis)
2028 - Netherlands 4 - 2 Italy (England lost 2-1 to Turkey in the 2nd Round)
2032 - Denmark 0 - 1 Netherlands (England lost 4-0 to Italy in the Quarter Finals)
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[egesagin]

Wow who the hell is Yaşar Yazıcı? :/ I've never heard of him and I'm surprised that a remota san marino team has a turkish man as a legend. Gotta look him up on the web.

On topic, insanely hard challenge, best of luck! What is that ranking you gave? The ranking of your league compared to the global leagues?

quick edit: no info on him on the net :/

[AcidBurn]

Just about the hardest challenge I have seen posted about in here, good luck dude.

[bboy123]

very ambitious

Good luck and I look forward to seeing your progress through the years

[Makoto Nakamura]

Wow who the hell is Yaşar Yazıcı? :/ I've never heard of him and I'm surprised that a remota san marino team has a turkish man as a legend. Gotta look him up on the web.

On topic, insanely hard challenge, best of luck! What is that ranking you gave? The ranking of your league compared to the global leagues?

Yaşar Yazıcı is the San Giovanni Assistant Manager, in last years version he was a Player/ Assistant Manager. He played for San Giovanni from 1992-2007 then he played for Cosmos for a year then became Player/ Assistant Manager until 2010 when he became just an Assistant.

And that ranking is where the league (Campionato Sammarinese) compares to the other European Leagues, right now we're sandwiched between the Greek Amateur Division - Athens & The Romanian Fourth League - Ilfov.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Just about the hardest challenge I have seen posted about in here, good luck dude.

very ambitious

Good luck and I look forward to seeing your progress through the years

Thanks AcidBurn & bboy!!

[noikeee]

Youth with a sanmarinese team? Good luck and have patience. I'm betting on 200 years to win the Champions League.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Youth with a sanmarinese team? Good luck and have patience. I'm betting on 200 years to win the Champions League.

Thanks noikeee! and I will, I'm in December already so the seasons are going to fly by until I'm back at school next Monday

EDIT: Wow, 13 users viewing this thread makes me a lil' bit happy!

[thomasmanefield]

Good luck mate, should be a great challenge to follow over the next year!

[Makoto Nakamura]

And the best of the "Youth Candidates"






He may not look much but all of the trialists have 4 & 5* Potential!

[MattSpurs94]

So in a few years, your team could be slightly better than what it is now

Good luck, I would never have the nerve to try a challenge like this.

[Makoto Nakamura]

So in a few years, your team could be slightly better than what it is now

Good luck, I would never have the nerve to try a challenge like this.

Yea in a few years I may even be lucky enough to try and push to get to the top of the table Thanks Matt

[HotChocolate]

Great thread, will keep reading with interest!

Good luck! You'll need a lot of it

[Makoto Nakamura]

Societa Sportiva San Giovanni

Campionato Sammarinese:

League Table - League Position Graph

Fixtures

We were predicted to finish dead last and we were doing pretty well, no big shocks but we finished 6th in Group A.

Coppa Titano:

Group C Table - Coppa Titano Fixtures


Inconsistency, we couldn't get a decent run of games going and ended up just missing out of qualifying for the next round.


Squad

I got rid of some of the players that played the least at the end of the season so I could fit every player into my desktop screen whihc is quite small..

Key Players:

Highest Average Rating:

Diego Pasquali - 6.87

Top Goalscorer:

Duarte Evandro Rodriguez - 8

Season            Campionato Sammarinese                  Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011/12                   6th                              3rd Grp C                     -                    -

[ArsenalMetro]

Great challenge. Good luck!

[noikeee]

And the best of the "Youth Candidates"


http://i.imgur.com/UDVmT.png



He may not look much but all of the trialists have 4 & 5* Potential!

May not look much? You kidding me? The kid's got some serious flair!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Players Retiring at the end of the season:

Monday 13th May 2013:

Daniele Baiardi - Staff Attributes
Mirco Gennari - Staff Attributes
Sergio Carlucci - Staff Attributes
Simone Marriotti - Staff Attributes

[HotChocolate]

Solid first season to say you were expected to come bottom. Build on that for next season and you'll be the new Barcelona in no time!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Solid first season to say you were expected to come bottom. Build on that for next season and you'll be the new Barcelona in no time!

I think for now I just have to work on being the new Tre Fiori

[HotChocolate]

I think for now I just have to work on being the new Tre Fiori

Who said aiming high was a bad thing? Filippo Ballardini to be the new Messi?

[johnwalker]

I'm doing something similar but with the San Marino club based in the Italian league system and I will be signing players, I really wouldn't have the patience for this.

But good luck anyway, I thought my own challenge was tough!

[Makoto Nakamura]

I'm doing something similar but with the San Marino club based in the Italian league system and I will be signing players, I really wouldn't have the patience for this.

But good luck anyway, I thought my own challenge was tough!

Thanks John, good luck with your San Marino challenge

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 8th - Youth Candidate Day

The Candidates then played my current U19's as a comparison and here's the result:

[powells_red_army]

This sounds like a massive challenge, good luck with it.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Societa Sportiva San Giovanni

Campionato Sammarinese

League Table - League Position Graph

League Fixtures

We did much better, winning the Groups but we lost in the playoffs that followed.

Coppa Titano:

Group C Table - Coppa Titano Fixtures

Semi-Final

Again, much better than last year, we made it through the Group Stages and eventually got hammered by Tre Penne in the Semis.


Squad

I got rid of the deadwood at the end, might try and promote my Youth Prospects next year.

Key Players:

Top Goalscorer & Highest Avg Rating:

Alfonso Carnio - 16

Mr. Consistent:

Loris Zafferani

Youth Prospects:

Andrea Pedretti (YP1)

Raoul Belmonte (YP2)

Georgio Fusi (YP3)

Season            Campionato Sammarinese              Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup         Average Attendance    Club Worth (£)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011/12                   6th                          3rd Grp C                     -                    -                       193              £26,000
2012/13                1st Grp A                      Semi-Finals                    -                    -                       243              £80,000

[HotChocolate]

Unlucky on the play off defeat!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Yay, San Marino is going sideways in the world! and my imgur picture editing keeps messing up so no cropping for now

[moon_goat]

Gonna be so impressive if you do this

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well...this is annoying:




Everyone wants my Youth, thankfully he accepts my amateur contract over there's.

EDIT: Also our first youth gets a cap! It's an U21 Cap but it counts!

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 8th - Youth Candidate Day

I think Fabio La Mura is going to be the first Sammarinese "Star" for someone of this country to have those stats, he's better than most other strikers already

[egesagin]

Totally! He looks like a gem among the others, make him shine!

[Makoto Nakamura]

I think I know why our Youths are quite good for this level, I don't know what it means but out Junior Coaching has gone from Minimal to Basic!

And our Squad Personality has changed to "Hungry for Success"

[Romanista1994]

You'll be an absolute hero if you manage to complete any one of the goals you've set yourself. Can see it taking some time, even at the rate your youths have gotten better in these three seasons. Will be awesome when you start getting players called up to the San Marino senior team in the future, YP4 and YP5 look like they might have a shot at that in the future.

[Makoto Nakamura]

You'll be an absolute hero if you manage to complete any one of the goals you've set yourself. Can see it taking some time, even at the rate your youths have gotten better in these three seasons. Will be awesome when you start getting players called up to the San Marino senior team in the future, YP4 and YP5 look like they might have a shot at that in the future.

Thanks Romanista, I'll try and become a hero then


I have an end of season update to do but I'm too tired now, check back in 10 hours

[Mikal]

Good luck with this, really is a mammoth of a challenge, hope you have plenty of free time!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Good luck with this, really is a mammoth of a challenge, hope you have plenty of free time!

Thanks Mikal, I have waaay too much free time!


Also my imgur is messed up, what the next best image uploading site to use?

[egesagin]

imageshack.us ?

[Assistant]

Little question for you, are you allowed to sign new coaches?

Nice thread by the way.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Societa Sportiva San Giovanni

Campionato Sammarinese

League Table - League Position Graph

League Fixtures

Started off very inconsistent losing by big margins followed by winning easily we managed to top our group and somehow get to the final but lost to Murata, who for now I shall call our bogey team.

Coppa Titano:

Group B Table - Coppa Titano Fixtures

A Bad showing this year as we couldn't make it out of the Group Stages finishing 3rd.


Squad

Again, as I probably always will, got rid of the players that played the least/ didn't play so no big changes, the first youths are breaking through even though they're still in the Youth Squad.

Key Players:

Top Goalscorers:

Alfonso Carnio - Duarte Evandro Rodriguez - 16

Highest Avg. Rating:

Raoul Belmonte (YP2) - 6.97

Youth Prospects:

Andrea Pedretti (YP1)- Made 20 appearances in the Youth Team but with 19 of them appearing as a sub.

Raoul Belmonte (YP2) - Has far exceeded my expectations already and the only way is up for this kid, with 21 appearances and 8 assists, he's only 17!

Giorgio Fusi (YP3) - Also joined the first team with 17 appearances, netting 6 goals aswell.

Fabio La Mura (YP4) - Only played one Youth game but i'm expecting him to have some first team games next season.

Simone Santunione (YP5) - Also only played one Youth game, might have him on as a sub some point.

Next season we get to play in the EURO Cup Second Qualifying Round, I'm hoping to use the money that we get to increase the Youth Facilities.

Season            Campionato Sammarinese              Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup         Average Attendance    Club Worth (£)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011/12                   6th                          3rd Grp C                     -                    -                       193              £26,000
2012/13                1st Grp A                      Semi-Finals                    -                    -                       243              £80,000
2013/14                1st Grp B                       3rd Grp B                     -                    -                       236              £95,000

[Makoto Nakamura]

I was hoping for something a bit easier...They were Turkish Premier League Runners Up in 2011 and finished 3rd in the EURO Cup Group E last year, behind Man City & Metalist

[egesagin]

Dude that's totally harsh. Trabzonspor is a good team already but they are tremendously overrated by our researchers, they are the Barça of Turkey in FM12. I'll just say, let them get on the pitch without pressure and try to learn from the experience..

[Makoto Nakamura]

Atleast we'll get something from it:




Considering the players that they have of their disposal:






I must keep it under 10-0....

[egesagin]

That Taner is nothing compared to Burak Yılmaz. Just wish he doesn't play. But the money you'll get is almost 1/8 of your club value, great income..

[Makoto Nakamura]

San Giovanni's Maiden European Voyage

This is how we line up, our goalkeeper is 33, our backup is 32, 7 of the first 11 are 17 or younger, our substitutes are mainly in their mid 20's but aren't as good. Trabzonspor are 1-33 Favourites, we're 50-1 to even get a result against them..



They've decided to try and score as much as they can by going with a 4-2-3-1 formation.



We've told the players, that we're nowhere near as good as them and that the pressure is off. Game on.

04:39 - A pass covering half the ground makes an early goal for Trabzonspor, 1-0
06:49 - A drill cross to unmarked Devrim Ozen and he taps it beneath Luca Bellavista's body and into the net 2-0 Trabzonspor
10:28 - Engin Peker sprints through our defence and taps it past Luca Bellavista....3-0 Trabzonspor
12:43 - Engin Peker runs from the halfway line gets into the box crosses it to Devrim Ozen who taps it into the bottom right corner 4-0 Trabzonspor
24:24 - Luca Bellavista runs after the ball as Engin Peker runs round him and taps it in, 5-0 Trabzonspor
44:49 - Okan Acar picks up on a misplaced pass and shoots from outside the box. 6-0 Trabzonspor
46:49 (+1) - Engin Peker scores again, this time a penalty, 7-0 Trabzonspor

2nd Half:

47:00 - Baris Kirgiz hits it between 4 defenders in the box and past the keeper, 8-0 Trabonzspor
65:34 - Engin Peker goes round a defender and shoots from the tightest of angles, 9-0 Trabzonspor
69:42 - Serdar Ozkan gets shown a 2nd yellow, Trabzonspor now play with 10 men!

[egesagin]

Oh, because you didn't add that league or well known clubs from europe or sth. they're playing with mostly unreal players.

edit: I'll take that back, tough luck mate

[HotChocolate]

Great read so far, unlucky on Trabzonspor but still, nice experience

[deltablue]

Sounds like an epic quest.

[Makoto Nakamura]

It's over!!

We were badly outclassed, we're amateur, they're one of the best in Turkey, now we have the home leg...

[LCFCEaves31]

This is mental... but fun to read at the same time! Good Luck, don't give up

[Makoto Nakamura]

This is mental... but fun to read at the same time! Good Luck, don't give up

I won't give up the 3rd Qualifying Round Draw has been done, the winner of our match goes through to play Slavia Prague!

[egesagin]

I hope that the other teams in your league will imrpove as your league's reputation increases. Otherwise your seasons will be so boring that you'l want to stick needles in your eyes instead of looking at the screen, waiting for the season to end with 10 goals per game

[Makoto Nakamura]

San Giovanni's Maiden European Voyage Part II: The Home Leg

I've gone to a more defensive formation and decided to let that Ass Man choose the team....BAD IDEA....we now play with a weakened team, without any of the Youth Prospects and are playing with a couple of players that are even rated 1/2* for us!

1st Half:

12:52 - Taner Alici has the first true chance but misses a penalty! Still 0-0
19:42 - Ersin Dogan curls a long range free kick into the box, Zokora runs past the defender and gets his head to it. 1-0 Trabzonspor
26:20 - Ersin Dogan takes the corner Zokora gets there again and taps it past the keeper, 2-0 Trabzonspor

2nd Half:

81:37 - Yasin Colak smoothly slots it past the keeper, 3-0 Trabzonspor

[Makoto Nakamura]

A much more enjoyable game, changed the tactics and got a more reasonable result, that has brought an end the our debut in Europe, lets hope that this is the worst we ever do!



And now I can try and ask the board to upgrade the Youth Facilities!

[Makoto Nakamura]

I don't actually know what this means but lat time the coaching was increased we got better Youth Candidates that year so I'm hoping it will be the same again, also in the Champions League Murata got through the the 2nd Qualifying round on penalties after drawing 0-0 with TNS, they lost to Zestaponi but I'm hoping that it might improve the reputation a tiny bit.

[LCFCEaves31]

The more I read this, the more I want to do something similar!! But... perhaps not San Marino, as I do not want to rain on your parade. Any suggestions? An Island at similar level? I am not suggesting acheiving the goals you have set, but just to try something similar would be quite fun...

[Makoto Nakamura]

The more I read this, the more I want to do something similar!! But... perhaps not San Marino, as I do not want to rain on your parade. Any suggestions? An Island at similar level? I am not suggesting acheiving the goals you have set, but just to try something similar would be quite fun...

I would say the countries that are at this level you could try Andorra or the Faroe Islands, both of those countries have multiple divisions to play in aswell, good luck if you do give it a try, you'll need a lot of patience

[LCFCEaves31]

Yes, I am hoping you do not give up so I can follow it. I will weigh up a country this afternoon...

[egesagin]

I'll probably do Faroe Islands, at least give it a shot. I loved the fact that actual butchers and repairmen play in their national team as a secondary job lol

so Makoto, how many seasons do you think your career will take? Can it be under 100 years?

[Makoto Nakamura]

Yes, I am hoping you do not give up so I can follow it. I will weigh up a country this afternoon...

Alternatively if you wanted a different continent you could try it with the Maldives in Asia, they're the lowest reputation team that can get into the Asian Champions League or go to American Samoa for the O-League

I'll probably do Faroe Islands, at least give it a shot. I loved the fact that actual butchers and repairmen play in their national team as a secondary job lol

so Makoto, how many seasons do you think your career will take? Can it be under 100 years?

Goodluck and I honestly have no idea, this is the first time I've tried anything like this, I couldn't see myself doing it in under 50, I'm aiming for 100-150 which is a pretty broad amount of seasons.

[egesagin]

What do you think about managing the Sammarinese national team once you start to get decent youth players who can be competitive in an international level?

[Makoto Nakamura]

With the National Team, when the opportunity arises I will always apply for the job, if I don't get it then I don't get it and if I do get the job as the national team manager then the only way I'll leave the national team is if the Sammarinese FA sack me.

[egesagin]

Cool, one last question though. Do you watch games in 2d or 3d? I don't think I can watch them in 2d anymore but if I watch them in 3d, seasons take too damn long and 100 seasons means about 400 days for me, with 5 hours a day gameplay. That's just crazy

[Makoto Nakamura]

Neither Match View - Only Commentary, No Replays, speed slider all the way to the right, I made and exception for the European Games though

[egesagin]

wow, that's amazing. I guess I'll stick with dafuge challenge or sth. with my 3d matches thanks for your time and answers btw

[Makoto Nakamura]

No problem, I always look to reply to peoples comments asap

[Makoto Nakamura]

This is annoying...





Probably no more updates on him, not decided yet.

EDIT: Also just checking the club overview, we now have "Adequate Junior Coaching" hopefully better Youths to challenge for the title.

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 8th - Youth Candidates Day

Allessandro Rossini could be something, he is already twice the player of our best goalkeeper, which shows how bad our goalkeepers are..

[hrbfcrule]

Good luck , always like following these types of challenges

[Makoto Nakamura]

Thanks Hrbfcrule! End of season update should be done in the next hour or 2

[Makoto Nakamura]

Societa Sportiva San Giovanni

Campionato Sammarinese

League Table - League Position Graph

League Fixtures

This season for whatever reason was a lot harder, we hit bottom, but I decided to change tactics a bit to try and get some results near the end of the season, I got big wins and big losses but managed to finish in 4th.

Coppa Titano

Group A Table - Coppa Titano Fixtures

We managed to get through the Group Stages but lost out in the Quarter Finals.

EURO Cup

2nd Qualifying Round

We were woeful away losing 9-0, we managed to do better in the 2nd leg but we still lost 12-0 on agg. It wasn't as bad knowing that Trabzonspor ended up reaching the Group stages and finished 3rd in their group.

Squad

The usual of releasing a load of players, we now have some of our Youth in the First team and being called up for International Duty.

Key Players:

Top Goalscorers:

Alfonso Carnio - Fabio La Mura (YP4) - 7

Highest Average Rating:

Fabio La Mura (YP4) - 7.13

Youth Prospects:

Andrea Pedretti (YP1) - Not looking too good, 2 appearances this season

Raoul Belmonte (YP2) - Still growing especially in the Sammarinese U21 team with Youth apps and an international goal.

Fabio La Mura (YP4) - Scored 5 in 3 in the league should get more next year. 4 Youth Appearances

Simone Santunione (YP5) - 3 appearances in the league with an average of 7.23 and a Youth international appearance.

Valerio Borrello (YP6) - Don't know about this guy yet, I'll give him a couple of years.

Allessandro Rossini (YP7) - I'm excited about this guy because he's a Goalkeeper, our Goalkeepers are woeful at the best of times and Allessandro is already better than both of those.

Season            Campionato Sammarinese              Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup         Average Attendance    Club Worth (£)
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2011/12                   6th                          3rd Grp C                     -                    -                       193              £26,000
2012/13                1st Grp A                      Semi-Finals                    -                    -                       243              £80,000
2013/14                1st Grp B                       3rd Grp B                     -                    -                       236              £95,000
2014/15                4th Grp B                     Quarter Finals           2nd Qual. Round             -                       200              £150,000

[Makoto Nakamura]

And this is new, along with Murata, are acknowledged in Europe!

EDIT: also Raoul Belmonte has picked up his first 2 Senior caps, against Sweden & Finland



Now that is really annoying, my 2nd best Youth has gone...

[HotChocolate]

Nowt like jumping up the rankings in a season slow progress, obviously

[Makoto Nakamura]

Nowt like jumping up the rankings in a season slow progress, obviously

Slow progress is better than no progress

This could be my chance!



Or maybe not...

[Makoto Nakamura]

Uh-oh, that's the wrong way....

And it's after 5 straight defeats followed by a draw, we've lost 1-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-0, 3-0 and now drew 1-1. Bad times.

[Scoham]

Is this with the San Marino league from the editors forum, or one you created yourself?

Good luck, surely an impossible challenge!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Is this with the San Marino league from the editors forum, or one you created yourself?

Good luck, surely an impossible challenge!

Thanks Scoham It's the league from the Editors Hideaway.

EDIT: Oh great, it got even lower:



But atleast there's this:

[HotChocolate]

Them fans will come crawling back when you are champions of Europe

[Makoto Nakamura]

It's getting better, 200 people came to see us thrash Murata 4-1

[Johnlc]

Have you the option to request becoming professional? would be a shame to have all your players nicked for nothing. Also why do you have a scout? :P

[Makoto Nakamura]

Have you the option to request becoming professional? would be a shame to have all your players nicked for nothing. Also why do you have a scout? :P

I've tried, apparently we can't afford to turn Professional yet, and my Scout is an ex-player that I wanted to stay at the club.

[Makoto Nakamura]

8th March - Youth Candidates Day

Andrea could be Sammarinese great, if his Finishing and Composure was higher, might stick with him as an Attacking Midfielder for now

[HotChocolate]

Get Andrea to work on those finishing and composure! Train him up, he'll then be a world beater.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Get Andrea to work on those finishing and composure! Train him up, he'll then be a world beater.

I've started training him on his finishing and also some news; I could lose San Giovanni's "Never won silverware" tag, for the first time, I'm in the Coppa Titano Final!

[0gris]

Fast and a lot of flair. A ferrari indeed

[ohaio]

Can I ask where you got the database from? As I'm interested in doing it myself

[Makoto Nakamura]

Can I ask where you got the database from? As I'm interested in doing it myself

I don't know if you have to sign up to the forum but I think I'm using this database http://community.sigames.com/showthr...Cups-(FM-2012)

You could also try these:

http://community.sigames.com/showthr...Sammarinese-FM

http://www.thedugout.tv/community/sh...63#post3361463

[deltablue]

That would be nice, getting a trophy in the cabinet.

[Makoto Nakamura]

That would be nice, getting a trophy in the cabinet.

Well I'll be doing the End of Season update soon, so you'll see

[Makoto Nakamura]

Societa Sportiva San Giovanni

Campionato Sammarinese

League Table - League Position Graph

League Fixture

We started off terribly! we couldn't win, I've changed tactics to a 4-6-0 / 4-2-4 and things have worked from their.

Coppa Titano

Group C Table - Coppa Titano Fixtures

Coppa Titano Final

Again we started terribly but as the competition went on we got better and got to the final where a former Youth Player scored against us..

Key Players:

Top Goalscorer & Highest Average Rating:

Alessandro Mattiello - Scored 9 - 7.08 Rating

Youth Prospects:

Andrea Pedretti (YP1) - Not very good really, not having an impact.

Raoul Belmonte (YP2) - Made his international debut, now has 3 caps and looks to cement a place in the International Team

Valerio Borrello (YP6) - He's done better than I thought he would, scoring 7 goals and getting 8 assists

Allessandro Rossini (YP7) - Was thrown right in at the deep end, became first team Goalkeeper and made 33 appearances

Claudio Persico (YP8) - Pretty good Attacking midfielder, will give him game time next season

Andrea Ferrari (YP9) - I'm looking forward to him, the finishing training is working already, if only very slightly.

Season            Campionato Sammarinese              Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup         Average Attendance    Club Worth (£)
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2011/12                   6th                          3rd Grp C                     -                    -                       193              £26,000
2012/13                1st Grp A                      Semi-Finals                    -                    -                       243              £80,000
2013/14                1st Grp B                       3rd Grp B                     -                    -                       236              £95,000
2014/15                4th Grp B                     Quarter Finals           2nd Qual. Round             -                       200              £150,000
2015/16                3rd Grp A                       Winners                       -                    -                       180              £190,000

[Makoto Nakamura]

Hopefully this means we won't be far behind being promoted, but also means they'll be getting better players in now.



Stupid amateur tag!!

[Makoto Nakamura]

that's my finances sorted for a few years!

[hrbfcrule]

Congratz on the cup win and nice little payout there

[deltablue]

Ah, had a feeling you'd won the cup.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Congratz on the cup win and nice little payout there

Ah, had a feeling you'd won the cup.

Thanks guys, I'm hoping to get consecutive victories.

Just had this result:




things are looking up!

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 8th - Youth Candidate Day

Simone Morelli, the only good player to come out of this years batch, atleast our Youths are getting better as the seasons progress

Our Junior coaching has gone from Adequate to Average and we are £680,000 in the black for finances

[SRL88]

Nice thread mate

Have you got a ss of your finances?

[Makoto Nakamura]

Nice thread mate

Have you got a ss of your finances?

Thanks SRL88, and I was going to add a screenshot of the finances into the next Update, which I'll leave until I get onto page 2 so that the update isn't right at the bottom of the page

[Makoto Nakamura]

First off what a way to get yourself onto the International stage, 2 goals on your debut.



And a takeover, hopefully if it works out the chairman will let me keep my job.

[egesagin]

And perhaps a cash injection