Makoto Nakamura Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 As you may have noticed, I've struggled to get into an FM14 save as of yet, I went back to CM01/02 to freshen things up and now I'm ready to give FM14 one last try, and I've decided to manage in Costa Rica, a decent nation behind the powerhouses of Mexico & the U.S.A. (Wikipedia History) Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, often known as La Liga, is a professional football club, based in Alajuela, Costa Rica. Founded on June 18, 1919 by a group of seven members of the former team Once de Abril, and currently playing at the Primera Division de Costa Rica, their headquarters are located at the Alejandro Morera Soto Stadium in El Llano neighborhood of Alajuela. Alajuelense is a founder member and one of most successful teams of the Costa Rican football history, having won 29 times the Primera División title, being the only Costa Rican club with least one title gained in each decade. They are one of the two teams alongside CS Herediano that has played in every season in the Primera Division and never have been relegated. They have won 3 UNCAF Club Championships and 2 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, being the first Costa Rican team who won that title, led them to become the first Costa Rican team to play the Interamerican Cup in 1986 against the mighty River Plate. Alajuelense is the only Central American football team who took part in CONMEBOL competitions such as Copa Merconorte in 2000 and the Copa Sudamericana in 2006. Alajuelense is the Central American team that has reached the highest position in the IFFHS Club's World Ranking, back in 2000 they reached the 27th spot. The team was created in 1919 when a group of friends that used to play in a team called the "Electra" at first and then "Once de Abril" (April the 11th) met at "Salon París". They wanted to give the city a team that could represent them at a national level. They played their first official game on August 2 of that same year against CS Cartaginés getting their first victory, 3 – 1. Alajuelense was part of the 7 teams that built and formed the National League in Costa Rica, back in 1921, along with La Libertad, Sociedad Gimnástica Española, CS Herediano, CS Cartaginés, CS La Unión de Tres Ríos, and Sociedad Gimnástica Limonense. They won their first championship in 1928. They are the only team to win the championship with a perfect record; in 1941 they won all 6 games. In 1960, the team made a tour around the world, leaving Costa Rica on September 17. In 78 days the team played 24 games, winning 12, losing 7 and the other 5 ended up tied. They scored 71 goals and received 47, with a remarkable performance from Juan Ulloa Ramírez, being the best player and top scorer of this tour. Throughout their history, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense has generated a lot of great players and stunning performances. They are known as one of the best teams in the Central America area. Their best decade was the 1990s, during which they won 4 Championships and 4 sub-championships (runner up) as well. In addition to that, by the end of the 90's and the middle of the 2000s, they won a total of 5 local championships (4 of them in a row), 2 Copa Interclubes UNCAF Throphies and a CONCACAF Club Champions, being the base for the Costa Rican football team in the Korea and Japan 2002 FIFA World Cup, with 9 players. By November 11, 2000 and after participating in the Copa Merconorte, Alajuelense was ranked in the 27th spot, based on IFFHS's Club World Ranking. It has been the best rank by the team and the best any other Central American club have reached. The club struggled with some financial and administrative problems in the second part on the 2000s decade, so they decided to end contract with a lot of their regular and known players and started to build a team based on their younger divisions and make some structural changes. Nowadays the club is free of debts and with a team averaging 25 year-old players is still one of the best teams in the area and one of the teams with most fans in Costa Rica. They have won the last 3 championships in its country and participated in the last CONCACAF Champions League being eliminated in the group stage for just one away goal. Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto - Scotiabank is a football stadium in El Llano neighborhood of Alajuela, Costa Rica which is the home of Liga Deportiva Alajuelense. The stadium holds 17,895 people. Named under Alejandro Morera Soto, known as "El Mago del Balon", notable former player of LD Alajuelense, FC Barcelona and Hércules CF. The project to find a proper site for a permanent home started in 1938 when the director of the club, Carlos Bolaños, proposed that the club should purchase its own land. The land was purchased in 1940, but the site would not be soccer-ready until 1942, when Alajuelense played its first match at the site. The first game was played on January 18, 1942 when Liga Deportiva Alajuelense played Club Sport Cartagines. The Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto is known as the Cathedral of Costa Rican Soccer. On September 27, 1949, a professor from a local high school named Armando Morux Sancho started what was called "La marcha del ladrillo" (The Brick's March) in which every student would donate a brick to help building the On July 20, 1966, due to a motion by the Municipality of Alajuela, the stadium was renamed to honor the great Alajuelense and Barcelona player Alejandro Morera Soto. On March 19, 1970 the stadium saw its first night game when Alajuelense faced Honduras Club team Motagua, beating them 4-1. In 1979, the enlargement of the stadium was initiated with the project of building a second stand on top of the first already built and add an additional stand over the dressing and conference room (south) and also, add roof to the stand located on east and the one located on south after was finished. The project was fully completed in 1984. The stadium was re-inaugurated that year along with the new illumination, which was at the moment, in the top illuminations systems. Costa Rican football started getting more attention by the international press after the national team participated to the World Cup in 1990 and with footballers playing abroad. The club decided to build a royal box in the top of the west stand, which would have a two-floor royal box with TVs, carpet, bathrooms, elevator and air conditioner. The royal box was finished in 1999 and is the only team in Costa Rica with such an amenity. In 2002, the illumination system was upgraded, being the stadium with the best illumination in the country. Until 2005, the Morera Soto's grass was known as the best natural one in Central America, but a combination of fungus and hurricanes affected the grass and it never fully recovered. By the end of 2008, the management of the team decided to install a fifth-generation synthetic grass, in order to have the field always ready for games no matter the weather, also have the availability to rent the venue for music concerts and/or special events and have the possibility for the younger divisions to train in the same field. The last game the team played on the natural turf was the first game of the 2008 winter's final, beating their archrival Deportivo Saprissa 2–0 on December 17, 2008. In 2009, the club installed a synthetic turf called Xtreme Turf from ACT Global Sports. This football turf has achieved FIFA two-star certification for approval for top international matches. This is the only FIFA two-star installation currently in Central America. After a long delay, the field was ready to be used by July 18, 2009. The field's re-opening game was held against Caracas FC from Venezuela; the game ended up with a tie 1–1. On July 3, 2011, the stadium name was changed from "Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto" to "Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto Scotiabank", due to a newly acquired sponsor from Scotiabank to the team. The aim? There is no aim as such, develop Costa Rican talent? topple the Mexican dominance? That would be nice, but I won't lose sleep over it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 Leagues Loaded: Fairly straightforward, loaded the North American leagues for the added competition, I've also loaded Spain because Alajuelense have Real Madrid as a parent club so hopefully I can get a player or 2 on loan sometime. In terms of players, I've loaded players with national reputation in North & South America as well as players based in Central America & the Caribbean which brings the database size up to 24,000 players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 Initial Squad: Key Players: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 July 2013 A great start, we've made our way to the Final of the Copa de Costa Rica against Universidad de Costa Rica, we've also started our Champions League campaign, very strongly as well with a 4-1 beating of Panamanians Arabe Unido. Transfers: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soccer.joel Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Good luck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter_Morgan Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Looking forward to seeing how this goes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 Good luck Thanks Joel Looking forward to seeing how this goes Thanks Dexter, should have an update this afternoon/evening, prevening? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Looks interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Costly Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Best of luck, should be an interesting save! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 5, 2014 Author Share Posted January 5, 2014 August 2013 A great start to the season as we try to outscore our opponents, and for now it's working wonders as Lucas Gaucho has already scored 12 in 8! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 September 2013 Another good month as we qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League and hold a little lead in the league, although with a small squad if we get a couple of injuries that could go downhill very quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 October 2013 Another good month (just ignore the mauling against Cartagines) We had more possession but somehow conceded 6, the other games went off quite well although we should have gotten the 3 points against bottom U. de Costa Rica. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 November 2013 Managed to get the Opening Stage done and finish a big 10 points clear, now we have the stage Semi-Finals to contest before the Closing Stage starts in January. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 8, 2014 Author Share Posted January 8, 2014 December 2013 Not a lot to say really, we blew our chance away from home and couldn't get rid of the 3 goal deficit when we got to the home leg. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 January 2014 The Closing Stage has started and we currently sit in joint 4th, 1 point behind 1st although in the league we have a 9 point advantage still so I'm happy and hoping the good form keeps going. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 February 2014 Another strong month really with just a couple of losses, we somehow managed a win against Houston in the 1st leg of the Champions League! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashton321 Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Looks great what is the database you are using? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 Looks great what is the database you are using? Thanks ashton, glad to see someone following and http://thedugout.net/community/showthread.php?t=92145 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 2013/14 Youth Intake Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 March 2014 We managed to overcome Houston which sees us in the Champions League Semi-Finals against Mexican underachievers Toluca who are currently 18th and last in the Mexican Closing Stage and 13th out of 18 on average points, can we take advantage of their form and sneak into the Champions League Final? In the league our defence has shored up as we've only conceded 1 goal and that's helped our title hopes greatly as we've definitely finished 1st, all we need to do is with the League Final. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 9, 2014 Author Share Posted January 9, 2014 April 2014 How? I don't have a clue how I managed to win, it brings a lot of pressure to next season which I don't really need. I only have a last couple of league games now before that will finally be the end of the long season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 End of Season 1 - 2013/14 A very strong season sees us easily be league champions, but none of that mattered if we didn't win the closing stage final, which we thankfully did, hopefully we'll be able to bring some better players in for next season to start to dominate Costa Rica. Champions League and Copa de Costa Rica winners in the 1st season! Is it too soon? Maybe, but I'll enjoy my moment in the limelight whilst I can. Key Players Transfers: Incoming Transfers: All of these players will be coming in between 2014 & 2016 and are all rated 4* PA or higher and from the USA. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 July 2014 Another good cup run, the only downside is that we had some high profile friendlies against European teams which were cancelled because of the cup and the winner only gets £10,000. Transfers: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 August 2014 We've retained the Copa de Costa Rica and had an unspectacular start to the Champions League with us losing to San Francisco, the league has started strong with us only conceding 3 goals so far and only 1 draw and no losses yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 September 2014 A perfect month sees us open up a 9 point lead over 2nd after just 10 games! We have 1 last Champions League game and it's highly unlikely that we're going to qualify but I don't know what the rules are exactly on who goes through, whether it's on goal difference or on head to head results. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 10, 2014 Author Share Posted January 10, 2014 October 2014 *Insert minor expletives here* We're out of the Champions League from one goal on goal difference and our league form has gone woefully downhill but we somehow still have a minor lead on the other clubs thanks to the 9 point cushion we had. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 November 2014 Managed to easily win the Opening Stage, well, sort of, we have the 2nd leg of the Semi-Final and hopefully the Final to play yet. I'm annoyed with the board as I've been manager for 19? months now and managed 100 games but they won't let me upgrade the scouting range because I'm a new manager and should accept what I have already... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 December 2014 A great month saw us get over £1m in prize money thanks to our efforts in the Club World Cup as we lost 6-0 to our parent club Real Madrid, that wasn't the biggest result though as in the other Semi-Final Velez beat ES Tunis 9-0. Now onto the transfers: Key Transfers: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 January 2015 Bar the Puntarenas game it was plain sailing, I'm hoping that the signings of Samuel Eto'o and Panamanian defender Roman Torres will make a difference on the pitch. I've changed screen resolutions now so hopefully screenshots after these will be smaller/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 February 2015 I was worrying over having a mixed month after the first 4 games, but my worries were short lived, we're holding a good lead as we come to the closing 10 games of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 Just a note but if you're looking for good cheap regens and have the USA loaded then look at the US Developmental Academy squad, I've scouted (and attempting to sign) every player with 4*+ PA, considering 2 1/2* is good enough to be a star Liga Tica player! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 2014/15 Youth Candidates Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 March 2015 Our unbeaten run finally comes to an end after 14 games, we've qualified for the playoffs so hopefully we can win that and next seasons goal will be 100 points. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 End of Season 2 - 2014/15 I hit the 100 point mark so the next goal would be to net 100 goals in a season. Key Players: Transfers: Future Transfers: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 July 2015 As you can see it's been a great start to the season even though for the first cup games we had a squad of 7 players as everyone else was on holiday. Transfers: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 August 2015 Great start to the league, our strikers are really scoring and the only defeat was a much deserved one against Chivas where we were greatly outpaced. Seriously, still? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 September 2015 And unbeaten month, again we have practically no chance of beating Chivas well enough to get into the next round of the competition so it looks like I'll have to wait until next year... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Really England? Really??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 October 2015 We beat Chivas but thanks to goal difference it wasn't enough, Robbie Keane is the current Champions League top scorer so far with 7 goals in 4 games, in the league our unbeaten run has finally come to an end and I'm still not as far ahead as I would have liked but we have breathing space for a couple of slip-ups. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Sitting very nicely in the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Sitting very nicely in the league. Indeed, aiming for 100 points & goals in the next couple of seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 November & December 2015 The Opening Stage is over and we win it again, we're showing a slight level of domination now with just the one loss in 22 games but I'm impressed that we have this quality throughout the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 January 2016 I signed a couple of players in December so there's a little bit of gelling to do, results are looking good so far though! Key Transfers: And to show how much I'm building for the future: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 February 2016 The teams gelling now and we're beating other teams by scoring 7 times now, and it wasn't just a one-off! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 2015/16 Youth Candidates Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 March 2016 A mixed month, we've hit the 100 points mark now, although we were inconsistent but the 3 wins were high scoring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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