Makoto Nakamura Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 February 2027 A mixed month but Alvaro Fernandez is proving to be an inspired signing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 2026/27 Youth Candidates We get a standout striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 March 2027 A big loss to our closest rivals, but we're 16 clear with a game in hand whilst they're only six clear of the relegation playoff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 April 2027 Two losses but we're champions with four games remaining. Andorra complete! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 2026/27 End of Season Review A perfect end to the season, a clean sweep! Now to find a job in Gibraltar! Overall Best XI 2026/27 Best XI Nayer Campoverde Moisés San Nicolás - Florian Cuenot - Christian Fernandes - Pablo Agea Aarón Martínez - Miguel Braz Paolo da Costa - Emili Caballé - Carlos Zamora Álvaro Fernández 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 Since there were jobs available in Gibraltar, I resigned from Ordino and here are the league changes coming up: Andorra turn view-only and Malta gets added meaning that the playable nations will now be Gibraltar, Wales & Malta. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 Lincoln Red Imps Football Club is a professional association football club from Gibraltar. They play in the Gibraltar National League, and share Victoria Stadium with all other clubs in the territory. They are the country's record champion with 24 league titles, including fourteen consecutive titles between 2003 and 2016, and in 2014 were the first team to represent Gibraltar in the UEFA Champions League's qualifying stage. In August 2021, Lincoln became the first club from Gibraltar to ever reach the group stages of a European club competition after defeating the Latvian champions Riga FC in the play-off round of the UEFA Europa Conference League. The club holds Europe's longest chronological unbeaten league run of 88 matches over 1,959 days from May 2009 to September 2014. The football club was first formed in 1976 by Charles Polson and Charles Head, the latter managing the team. A group of players associated to the old Police youth team called the "Blue Batons" and complemented by players that had been released by Glacis United and St Jago's joined forces to form the first Lincoln team that played in the Gibraltar fourth division as a youth team. The team was named after Lincoln City FC, who are nicknamed the "Imps" after the legend of the Lincoln Imp. Lincoln Red Imps were received their name after sponsored them to Reg Brealey, the former Sheffield United chairman and Lincoln resident who is friend with Charles Polson. When this Lincoln team became old enough to play Senior Football, it was decided to place the young team into the GFA second division. The team started to climb to the top in the second division in the season 1981–82 winning the league, the division cup and gaining promotion to the GFA's first division after only one season. The next year Lincoln finished in mid table in the first division. In 1983–84 Lincoln won the league and promotion to the Gibraltar Premier Division. In 1984–85 Lincoln played their first season in the Gibraltar Premier Division in which they were joint champions with Glacis United – the first of seven league titles which were won between 1984 and 1994. Lincoln won 14 Gibraltar Premier Division titles in a row from 2003 to 2016, bettering the previous record of nine in a row held by Glacis United in the 1960s. They also won the national treble of League, Rock Cup and Senior Cup in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2011. 2014 In 2014, after Gibraltar had joined UEFA as the 54th member, Lincoln became the first Gibraltarian team to play in the qualifying stages of the UEFA Champions League. After claiming a 1–1 draw in the home match, they lost 5–2 at Faroese team HB and were eliminated in the first qualifying round. 2015 Lincoln won both the 2015 Rock Cup with a 4–1 victory over Lynx F.C and the 2014–15 Gibraltar Premier Division championship by 16 points, again playing in the qualification stages for the UEFA Champions League for with their second straight double. In the First Qualifying Round Lincoln were drawn against FC Santa Coloma of Andorra. After a scoreless draw in the first leg in Gibraltar, the club earned a 2–1 victory at the Estadi Comunal d'Andorra la Vella to advance to the Second Qualifying Round with goals coming from Anthony Bardon and Lee Casciaro. With the victory, Lincoln became the first club from Gibraltar to reach the second round of UEFA Champions League qualification, setting up an encounter with 2015 Danish champions FC Midtjylland, which Lincoln Red Imps lost on aggregate 0–3. 2016 In 2016 Lincoln pulled off a surprise victory against Scottish Premiership champions Celtic, with a 1–0 victory at home after a 48th-minute strike from Lee Casciaro in the club's second round match of the UEFA Champions League qualifying stage. The match was Brendan Rodgers first competitive fixture as manager of Celtic. The Glasgow side still comfortably qualified thanks to a 3–0 victory in the return leg at Celtic Park. 2021 On 26 August 2021, Lincoln became the first team from Gibraltar to qualify for the group stage in a European Competition, as they defeated Riga FC by a score of 3–1 (4–2 aggregate) and advanced to the group stage of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League. Time to bring Lincoln Red Imps back to the #1 team in Gibraltar. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 2027/28 Pre-Season A good European campaign but unfortunately we lose the Pepe Reyes Cup, it wasn't even close. The league really is a 2 horse race! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 October 2027 This was not the start I expected, holy cow! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 November 2027 Two good away wins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 December 2027 Simply amazing, we're far exceeding any and all expectations I could have had! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 January 2028 Just the one game, and what a game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 February 2028 We drop our first points of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 2027/28 Youth Candidates Four good players come through this intake! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 March 2028 A massive win in the Rock Cup and another three wins in the league which means we are league winners with three games remaining! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 2027/28 End of Season Review I wanted one more goal! So close to the perfect season and now we have two of the three competitions needed to complete Gibraltar! Hopefully we can win the Pepe Reyes Cup so we can move on! Records & Awards: So many awards! Overall Best XI 2027/28 Best XI Andrew Dabinyaba Jr Erin Barnett - Jaylen Duarte - Maksym Sasovskiy - Lee Combes Shaun De Los Santos - Kevagn Ronco Jaiden Bartolo - Keegan Caull - Scott Ballantine Michael Cleaver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnompenhandy Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 The way you relate the Red Imps history - it reads like a classic FM career! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 6 hours ago, phnompenhandy said: The way you relate the Red Imps history - it reads like a classic FM career! Unfortunately it's just copied over from Wikipedia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2028/29 Pre-Season A very, very biusy pre-season which saw us lose to Sheriff in two separate ties but we've made it through to the Conference League group stage! We've also won the Pepe Reyes Cup so Gibraltar is complete! We'll now be looking out for jobs in Malta. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 October 2028 Things have started amazingly well in the league, unfortunately things are going as expected in the Conference League. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 November 2028 Roma destroyed us. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 (edited) December 2028 We picked up a point!! And with that our time in Gibraltar is up, we move on to Malta! Edited December 18, 2022 by Makoto Nakamura 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 Gżira United Football Club is a Maltese professional football club from the small harbor town of Gżira in central Malta, which currently plays in the Maltese Premier League. The club was founded in 1947, won the FA Trophy in 1973 and First Division league Champions. Often plays in Maroon with light blue sleeves on the shirt, with white shorts and white socks. Following the club's promotion to the Maltese Premier League, they signed a sponsorship agreement with JEEP, the global SUV brand, with the agreement of organizing events for the local community. For the 2016–17 season the Club played in BOV Premier League for the first time ever and finished 7th place. In the following year 2017–18 the maroons placed 3rd place and participated for the first time in the UEFA Europa League. The 2018–19 season was another successful one where again Gżira placed 3rd place and assured themselves to play again in the Europa League for another time. The Hajduk miracle On 18 July 2019, Gżira were facing the big Croatian club Hajduk Split at Split for the second leg of the first qualifying round of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. Gżira had lost the first leg match at home 0–2, a result which was considered normal, due to the big budget differences between the two clubs. The match in Split had the Croatians as strong favorites, offering odds of 1/15 (1.07 in decimal odds) for Hajduk to win the match. Hajduk went at half time winning 1–0. However, Brazilian forward Jefferson equalized for Gżira at the 57th minute, and Hamed Koné scored at the 69th minute making the score 1–2 for Gżira. This result was still not enough for the Maltese side, but found a final goal in the sixth and last minute of injury time, again with Hamed Koné, making the score 1–3 for Gżira, with the Maltese side advancing on away goals rule. This result was considered a major shock for the Croatians, with their manager Siniša Oreščanin being sacked shortly after. Qualifying for the UEFA Conference League 3rd Round In season 2021/22 UEFA started a new competition, the UEFA Conference League. Gzira qualified after placing 3rd in the Maltese Premier League and in the first round they eliminated again Santa Julia of Andorra. In the second round they faced Rijeka of Croatia and were eliminated with an aggregate of 3-0. In season 2022/23 Gzira played again in the same competition and in the first round they eliminated Atletic Club Escaldes of Andorra. In the second round Gzira FC were drawn against Radnicki Nis of Serbia and Gzira shocked again the European football when eliminating this strong side from Serbia. For the first time Gzira United FC played in the 3rd round of a European Competition and played against Austrian giants of Wolfsberger. Gzira obtained a goalless draw in Austria but then they were eliminated in the home match. When I applied for the job they were dead last, thankfully two home wins sees them up in 9th when I take over, unfortunately we're predicted right up in 2nd! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 Gibraltar will be moving back to view-only whilst Estonia is added as playable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 January 2029 An unbeaten start moves us up to 6th but everyone around us has a few games in hand. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 February 2029 Two away games and two away wins, great stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 March 2029 Our first defeat in the league moves us nine points behind Nadur, but at least we guaranteed a mid-table finish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2028/29 Youth Candidates Just the one player with potential. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2028/29 End of Season Review A poor end to our league campaign with two more defeats but we were able to make the FA Trophy Final, so there's a positive for us. 14 points from 9 league games since I took over, that would take us to around 44 over the course of an entire season. Overall Best XI 2028/29 Best XI James Grima Zvi Jie - Charlles - Raymond Camilleri - Mohamed Pinault Andre Buhagiar - Dean Bugeja Giorgi Iosava - Jurgen Cilia - Martin Davis Promise David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2029/30 Pre-Season A great pre-season with lots of goals and we're now favourites for the title! Turns out the Georgian Academies are a great place to poach players from! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 September 2029 An amazing start and we top the table early on! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 October 2029 The last unbeaten team remaining and we're now five points clear with a great goal difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 November 2029 Two games, two wins, perfect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 December 2029 A couple of slip-ups but still unbeaten as we pass the half way point with Birkirkara hot on our heels! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 January 2030 The unbeaten run is over. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 February 2030 A perfect month and now we're so close to the title! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 March 2030 The title is ours, 1 trophy down, 2 to go. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2029/30 Youth Candidates The teams quality has improved a lot, so I wasn't expecting much here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2029/30 End of Season Review Double winners! Now we just need the Super Cup! Overall Best XI 2029/30 Best XI Lasha Tsetskhladze Zvi Jie - Nathan Scerri - Ruslan Japaridze - Pálmi Rafn Gissurarson Dimitri Kassekar - Brian Vella Dean Bugeja - Martin Davis - Ibraim Fijuljanin Luka Luković Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 2030/31 Pre-Season Just the time for the two friendlies but we've made some great progress in Europe! Clear favourites now. Just the three players in, all Maltese for squad depth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 September 2030 An early defeat but no need to worry thus far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 October 2030 Goals, goals and more goals, an amazing month! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 November 2030 Another perfect month but we can't shake Birkirkara. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 (edited) December 2030 Super Cup winners! Malta complete! I'll stay in charge until a job comes up in the Welsh top tier. Edited December 18, 2022 by Makoto Nakamura 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 January 2031 Terrible to drop points against two of the bottom four, we lose top spot if Birkirkara win their game in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 February 2031 Birkirkara lost their game in hand!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 March 2031 It's going down to the wire, the final game? Home to Birkirkara. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 Well there's a surprise. What does he have that I don't? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucdark Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 hace 3 horas, Makoto Nakamura dijo: Well there's a surprise. What does he have that I don't? Coaching qualifications?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Nakamura Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 6 hours ago, ucdark said: Coaching qualifications?? But I have the trophies and the street smarts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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