Huipio

That would be great!

Wow! What a great challenge and 'blogs' here on the forum of your journey. Impressed by the detailed youth intake statistics and maps! Can we download the excel with algorithms calculating positions somewhere? Keep it up!

So a new season with FC Honka, let's see what we can do. We finished really strong last year so I will be relying on the same match squad. Maybe looking for 2-3 free transfers to bring in. Finnacially we are struggling so there is almost no to no room getting players in. Instead we will work on our team dynamics and prefered positions, see if that can bring us a bit higher up the table. The board are asking this: So a tophalf finish in the premier league and at least a semi final in the cup. Last year we reached the final (I wasn't on board yet) but the players know they are capable of a good cup run. The Finish season runs from january to november, so half way are season we'll be drawn in the Euro Cup preliminary round as well. Hopefully we can get an easy draw and win a few matches. That we do our finance good. The finish cup start with preliminary group matches at the start of the season. We make a flying start with a 7-0 win. We don't loose any of the five matches and progress to the 2nd round comfortably. In the second round we grab a deserved win away at TPS. This means we're in the QF. We start the league with three consecutive wins as well, so we are thriving on good morale. In the QF we go 2-0 up and then park the bus. Eventually we squeeze in a 2-1 win against RoPS. Same tactic in the SF against Ilves, we start pressing hard and attacking, go 2-0 up and then park the bus, hoping to get another goal from a set piece. RoPS get one back but that's it. A 2-1 win! The final will be played at our home ground. We go 0-1 down against a good HJK team. HJK are the current title holders, a team with a very big history and reputation in Finland. But our attacking tactic pays of. We get the 1-1 on the board, encouraging the team at half time to get this win for the fans. It looks like the FM gods are with us, in the 92nd minute we score 2-1! The cup is ours.... at least so we thought. Injury time 3 minutes, but celebrating the goal took some time so the referee continues play even though we are will over the 93th minute. The unbelievable thing happens, HJK get a 2-2 equalizer in the 95th minute and we go into extra time. No more goals in extra time, so penalties iit is. Luckily we've been doing penalties in training the day before. We get the win in the end 4-3 on penalties. What a way to start of my managing career in my first full season. We are top of the league after 7 matches. But their is a long way to go there.

So a new start for me, this time I loaded more leagues at the start. At least 1 in every continent and I decided not to go for the first possibilty to become manager, but to be a bit more patient and see which interesting clubs would sack their manager to step in. Started unemployed I got rejected for jobs in the K1 Korea and First division in Colombia. In Europe I tried to get a job in Iceland, but no luck there either. Then there was an opportunity in Finland. Team was last in the premier league, I got an interview, but denied. Two weeks later there was another chance in Finland. FC Honka, finished 3rd last season and were struggling to end mid table. They offered me the job! With 21 matches played in the league there was only 1 match to go. So I thought... The system in the finnish league works a bit different as I found out. After 22 matches the league gets split up in a champions group (top 6 teams) and a relegation group (bottom 6). I drew my first match and ended up 8th in the league. Next I played half a competition (5 games) with the bottom 6. I found out that the best of the rest would get a spot in the play-offs for the 4th Eurocup spot in Finland. So my first goal was the end 7th after 27 games. I won my first game but lost my second. I thought I could forget the playoff spot, but winning the last four ment I went into the playoffs. I started in the QF here with the number 3 of the league already qualified for the final. We won in the QF, beating KPV on penalties after 120 minutes of football produced no goals. In the SF we played Inter Turku, one off the big teams in Finland. We had a good game and won 1-0. We were in the final of the playoffs, much more then I expected when I took over at the end of the season. We played Ilves, 3rd in the league and fresh legs. The final was played home and away. As challengers we played at home first. Being the better side, we lost 0-1. Unfortunately, getting the Euro spot would have been to good to be true. Although we still had the 2nd leg... We got of to a flying start with a goal in the first minute. We went 2-0 up, I was thinking will away goals count on aggregate? I didn't check the rules. I didn't matter we scored another goal in on the 1 hour mark and won 3-0. We didi it!! Very curious what the board will ask from the team next season. Although there have been talks about a takeover in the media as well. We just wait and see and try to get some players in for next season. So far we didn't get any transfers in, because there was no transfer budget. Let's see how far we can take FC Honka, as a start of the challenge it would be great to win the league and the cup in Finland. The difference between the top teams and us doesn't seem that big.

Well, what a season that was... I was able to register my star player and it made all the difference. Picking up my first manager of the month award, finishing 2 coaching courses and finishing 10th in the league. Overachieving big time. The second half of the season we were the 3rd team in the league. A good build up for more... Or not... I decided to start a new save. I've been away from the game more then 10 years and ran in to some setup problems giving me more opportunities to get my reputation up sooner. So wil be starting over again, this time for real ;-)

So first job is keeping SH Shenxin in the first division (2 tier). But with an overtake likely to happen soon and a big debt there is no room for any transfers at all. So I had a look at the reserves and U19's to see if I could get at least a back up for all postitions. It seems there is a lot of potential in the U19 squad, but can they keep us in the league. We'll have a go! Unfortunately (not strange for a manager at 19 managing his first team) I made a big mistake by not registering one of the star players (16 yr old striker) for the league. Half way, we are struggling big time. The take over has taken place, we are out of debt, but still need to pay back a loan, so no transfer budget yet. Furthermore I'm trying to get my first training badge as well. Hopefully with the tranferwindow opening in a week I can register my star player.

Well, first job accepted... see how we go in season 1. Hopefully we'll do good enough to keep the job even if the club got sold. Would be nice if a foreground sugardaddy would buy the club next season.

I had a look and don't see the Confederations Cup, I do see the Olympics and the Panamerican Games though... We'll see how we go ;-)

HI all, Been away for a long time from Football manager. Think the latest version I really played was FM12, first one was CM 97-98. But I remembered that two years ago I downloaded the free version of FM20 and thought to give it a go. So here we are... up for the challenge! I'll start in China and see if I can get a job there as a 19 yr old Sunday footballer from the Netherlands. Keep you posted.