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Ok now at a stagnation point I think. I've won the CL twice in a row with Tre Penne, still only in a 12k-ish capacity stadium, my board are very frustrating, but not really making any progress in terms of league rep or coefficient. Pretty much stuck in 12th place in the UEFA coefficients and 15th in terms of league reputation, I think it's the teams behind me holding me back. So new plan, once I achieve 5* facilities everywhere with Tre Penne (hopefully in the next season), I'll take over another team in the league and try to drag them up too. Could be interesting.
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So I thought I'd provide a little update on my career so far as I enter the summer of 2040. I'll start off with the national team. San Marino national team and league So this has gone generally okay. Nothing mindblowing in terms of qualification but we're sat solidly as a Nations League Division C team, and sat in 138th in the FIFA rankings, 1 below our all-time high. Unfortunately youth player generation has been a bit slower than I'd hoped, but it's still really good progress 17 years into the game. As for the league itself, we've moved up to being the 26th most reputable league in the world, above the second tiers of Spain and France, but still below Serie B, Championship and 2. Bundesliga. Hitting the 3* reputation bracket there will hopefully help a little bit. And as for the teams in the league, we as a team only just broke into the 3* reputation rating bracket. Which is odd considering we were basically level with La Fiorita for quite some time, who as far as I can tell have never successfully made it through a single round in Europe, though admittedly their entry point has improved as our coefficient rating has. Tre Penne So this is where it gets interesting. Naturally we have dominated the league nigh on year-on-year, mostly winning with 100% win records. That said, we lost in the final of the most recent Coppa Titano and Super Coppa Sammarinese, so maybe it shows the rest of the league is improving. From a facilities point of view, I'm finally in the process of obtaining a 3* youth facility, still not great but it's getting there. Everything else is maxxed out, and we have a new-ish 12.5k capacity stadium with 9k seats. Tre Penne in Europe But what's really interesting is our performance in Europe. We have consistently made it to the group stages of the CL with relatively little trouble, but after a couple of years of then failing to make it to the next round, our coefficient dropped a fair bit. Up until this point, that had been our best performance in Europe. Then out of nowhere, this season has been a complete freak one. Against all the odds we made it to the CL semi-final, losing the first leg 2-1 to Inter and having to travel away. Then, what I can only describe as a freak result that I've never seen before, we won 4-0 and made it to the actual final of the Champions League. By pure coincidence, that final happened to be my 1,000th game in management in this save, where we ultimately lost to Liverpool, but it has really, really helped our European ratings, which in turn will help improve the league. So we now find ourselves in 20th place, which I anticipate improving in the next few years as long as I can consistently make it out of the group stage of the CL, which I think/hope is achievable now. Looking at the numbers there, I'd like to think we can break into the top 15, which would give us 5 places in Europe, and distribute a bit more money around the league: And then final screenshot, just Tre Penne sitting in 22nd, above PSG and just behind Man Utd in the European club coefficients . I must admit, this is a bit of an unusual save, not playing too many games, instant resulting a lot and just really trying to optimise the finances we've got and doing the best at a club with a relatively poor reputation. But it's quite fun and the novelty hasn't worn off yet, really intrigued to see how far the Sammarinese league can really go, and hopefully in turn, the national team.
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Okay interesting, how good were your facilities at that point? I have maxed out training, youth recruitment and junior coaching, with 2.5* youth facilities now and some brilliant youth coaches, but just nothing coming through. Even reached the Round of 16 in the CL with Tre Penne this season - really frustrating.
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Yep I'm now over a decade in with Tre Penne and I must admit it's getting a little stale... I've previously had success with the San Marino challenge by taking over San Marino Calcio in the Italian leagues and having a super long-term save with them. Decent San Marino regens came through and all was fine. The issue here is that I'm yet to have a decent Sammarinese regen come through at all in over 10 years, and that's despite upping the youth recruitment and junior coaching to the max. I'm now in the CL group stages every year, and have made the knockouts once, so the club is in good health with perfect training facilities and a ton of money (although still only 2* youth facilities). But I wonder if there is just an inherent in-game feature meaning you will never get a decent Sammarinese regen through in the Sammarinese league, no matter how good your youth recruitment/coaching and youth coaches are. Has anyone found any different?
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Question here for you guys then. Has the World Cup enhanced or diminished Qatar's reputation? At the beginning we were told it would highlight their issues, and it felt pretty negative with the poor fan zones, the poor treatment of journalists, and of course the obvious about workers rights. But now, at least from here, it feels that there is a turning point and people are seeing past that because the football has been great. Certainly the narrative in the media has changed, with the usual tabloid suspects suddenly incredibly quiet on the realities of the workers abuses and being hugely positive now over the entire tournament. Personally, I really don't think that's a good thing, I think long-term it could be very damaging for us, but I'm interested to hear how others perceive it, particularly being in different parts of the world.
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I've watched a few, almost entirely England games but also the odd game. The football itself has been really decent, can't knock that at all, but aside from that it still hasn't felt full 'World Cup' for me. Didn't feel nearly as gutted at going out to France as I might have done at other tournaments, which says a lot in itself really. Not sure if that's partly due to the stupid kick off times over here or if it is some sort of mental block at it being in Qatar, but I'll take it regardless.
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England vs France - The Buildup
foolsgold replied to Coulthard's Jaw's topic in 2022 World Cup Forum
Reckon outside of the home nations, it's got to be up there hasn't it? Alongside Germany and Argentina? Was watching it in Melbourne yesterday and even at stupid o'clock in the morning there were a bunch of anti-French songs being sung constantly . 6am start on a Sunday for us, almost verging on all-nighter territory but will be sensible and go for the 5.30am alarm -
****ing ridiculous. I sense there is about 1/10th the usual excitement for this World Cup. Just doesn't feel like a real one.
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I appreciate that you can't exactly tell just from looking at it, but I had to connect at that airport earlier this year and it looked anything but 'not ready'. Probably the fanciest one I've ever seen.
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Tbf I had no idea Bein is Qatari-owned. Thought the issue was just with him working on the World Cup full stop.
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Depends. If he does raise awareness, and consistently and regularly bring the issues to appropriate attention, then there is a fair argument to be had that it's better he's there than some other pundit who doesn't mention a thing. Hope he donates all the money he makes to some appropriate charity though.
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Alright, why not go ahead and tell me what I meant seeing as you know better than me . I'm not personally comfortable going to a place built pretty much on slavery so recently, but fair play to those who are. But the fact is, if I or others have that stance, I'd like to know how others justify it before I go ahead and make myself a hypocrite. And as you say, in some cases it's actually hard to distinguish between watching this and watching the EPL. You've made points I absolutely agree with, particularly noting Newcastle fans reacted and behaved post-takeover, so I'm not sure it's 'preachy' whatsoever to want to gather other's opinions (who are usually far more clever than mine!) and make a call from that. If anything it's the absolute opposite. The only thing I'd disagree with is that any kind of protest is 'performative'. People don't tend to protest for bantz.
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The post wasn't meant to be judgmental in any way btw, just intrigued to hear others thoughts.
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Completely agree. Like most of us I like to consider myself quite a 'moral' person, I try to do the right thing, but I'm completely undecided on this. There's no denying that we should all be avoiding this, but then is it possible to watch the tournament without contributing in some way to Qatar, even if only by paying with your attention? It's going to be a tricky one this.
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Now that's over, it's been kind of fascinating. Not in a callous way, but I remember over the years people joking semi-excitedly about the extra Bank Holiday that we will have when the Queen does go. But now it's happened, pretty much everything being shut, nearly every TV channel showing the funeral - for those not so interested in the royals I'm not sure it quite lived up to the 'hype'. I'm pretty intrigued to know what people thought of it, from all points of view re: the royals. Here in Victoria, they've made the public holiday on the Thursday rather than the Monday, the day before another public holiday we already have for the AFL Final. 4-day weekend - for those not so into the royals, it couldn't really have fallen any better .
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And to respond to the actual point, no one is 'losing their collective rag'. People just don't enjoy being forced into 'mourning' for someone they've never met. If you'd like to mourn, by all means, go ahead, pay your respects that's no problem. On a less important level, there are absolutely elements of it being forced on you. ITV displaying the funeral all day long, without adverts, that's fair enough. But nothing says freedom of thought like having the exact same thing also broadcast non-stop on ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITV4, ITVBe and ITV Hub. I know it's not the same thing, but it's the sort of thing we'd mock North Korea for . But on a more serious note, people have lives to lead. Businesses will close in a cost of living crisis. Cancelled appointments in the NHS mean that it is almost a categorical fact that there will be deaths as a consequence. People who have worked hard year-round for a holiday are now forced to miss out on part of it and stay in their accommodation. These are genuine impacts that could hurt people, and something people are totally justified in being hacked off with. I'm not even anti-royal, but at least these moaners you mention are free thinking and not just following the directive of what you must do. Trying to siphon this into a 'younger generation are snowflakes' type argument is very rich, considering how some of the older generations behave. And it's probably a lot easier to be pro-establishment when you're not part of a generation where the state actively tries to make things as difficult as possible at every facet of your life.