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October 2023 Victor San Marino Another great month in the league with the only slight downside being the 2-2 draw to Rimini, we should have won that as we were 2-0 up but Gabelli got sent off and we couldn't hold on. After blitzing the record for number of goals in a match in September in the 9-1 win over Lentigione, it took us less than a month to beat that by destroying Progresso 11-1. Bolzan playing like Serie D Haaland. Last season it Bolzan scored 19 in 37 matches, this season he already had 21 goals in 11 matches. Unsurprisingly we keep our place at the top of the league but the draw to Rimini allows Carpi to narrow the gap to only 2 points. We play them next in the league so a win opens up a 5 point gap. Transfers I wasn't expecting to sign anyone else but both Pavlev and Scorza were available for free and both are improvements at what we have at RB and DMC respectively so they're welcome additions. San Marino National Team More losses but 2 goals against Serbia and only conceding 1 to Montenegro is great. We remain rock bottom of the group but I wasn't expecting anything else. One last game against Azerbaijan and then qualifying is done.

Well that was unexpected but it’s gonna be fun to see the prodigal son’s time at Mansfield

I’d probably say add Dover as well!

September 2023 Victor San Marino To say September was a good month is an understatement. We're through to the second round of the Cup but more importantly we're unbeaten in the league with an astonishing 19 goals in 3 games! Bolzan has been on fire with 9 goals and all of the wide players that were brought in during the summer have played their part. This has been the overall stats of my front four (Mata and Orfei rotating with Bani and Molossi respectively). Absolutely on fire!. All of that puts us 2 points clear with a perfect record and a +12 goal difference over the chasing pack already. San Marino National Team Business as usual with the National team, although Azerbaijan went down to 10 men before they beat us but they had something we don't, players who can play football. We're bottom of the group but I don't really expect much until the next Nations League. Oh we did move up to 207th in the FIFA Rankings though so that's good.

Hey Peterborough! Looking like a tasty final 4 games

Pre Season 2023 Victor San Marino Pre season went fantastically well, with us winning all of our games. Bolzan returns this season on loan from Roma and in pre season he chose violence, getting 11 goals in 5 games with 3 hat tricks. Transfers Vitale comes in as an upgrade to Pellanda in goal. Although a natural left back Gabelli will is one of our 2 new starting CBs. Vesentini has the honour of being our first transfer to cost money, coming from Virtus Verona for a whopping £2.9k. Although a CM by trade he's got all the attributes i want for a BPD so is being converted to play alongside Gabelli. Both Bani and Mata come in to improve our left wing, Bani is being trained to play there as we need cover there and he's better there than as a DM. Mata will be our starting LM for now though. Like a few of our other signings Molossi is being retrained as a Right Winger, his attributes are more than good enough for it at this level. Orfei comes in from SPAL on loan and is instantly our starting Right Winger. Finally Mattioli comes in to start up top alongside Bolzan. Mattioli was comfortably the most well rounded striker I could afford and that would come but there is one I'm keeping my eye on but he wouldn't join, hopefully that'll change if we get promoted. Overall I'm very happy with our transfer business, we've improved the CB pairing whilst keeping last seasons CBs so that great. We've also massively improved our wings which whilst they weren't bad last season it is nice to get some wide players that have pace, acceleration and crossing, I'm hoping for this to bring us goals. And finally Mattioli increases the skill level of our CF that will be playing alongside Bolzan. I'm hoping that Gabelli, Vesentini, Mata, Orfei and Mattioli help us to finish what we started last season.

April 2023 Victor San Marino Well I forgot to get an image of the table at the end of March so it's a double month again. We had a good 2 month spell with only the loss to fellow promotion hopefuls Carrarese. The draws though have been a pain in the ass all season. Every drawn game seems to be us smashing teams but our strikers just can't seem to find the net. Unfortunately after spending the majority if the season at the top of the league, we couldn't hold on and ended up 2nd. We actually were 1st for most of the final day as Carrarese were drawing to Borgo San Donnino but they ended up shipping 3 goals in the second half and so our hopes of promotion went up in smoke. Overall its been a great season as we were tipped for relegation and to come 2nd is a fantastic achievement but to miss out after doing so well is heart breaking. Honestly a younger me would have just gone back and replayed the Aglianese game until I won and got promotion but I've grow and so next year were gonna look to go one better and make it to Serie C. Bolzan was the stand out player for us this season and luckily we've managed to secure him on loan again for next season. I've also managed to re loan Furlan who's been a rock at the back for us. The board have given us pretty much the same budget for next season as they did for this one but as I really didn't use it there's a lot of room for recruitment. We also had another Golden Generation Youth Intake. I've scooped up all of the 5* potential players and then some of the rest. As it currently stands only Morri looks like he could make it to the first team and that's mainly due to his his Finishing, Heading and Natural Fitness. San Marino National Team There was also in international break in March but as you can see it was really not worth mentioning. Bottom of Euro Qualifying group A with -18, although Azerbaijan have also lost both games so there may be a slim chance of a point off of them during qualifying but that might be a dream too far at this stage.

February 2023 Victor San Marino 8 points from 12 in February isn't a bad return but Corticella were 19th when we played then and Tritium were also in the bottom half. Both games involved us fluffing chances that we should have scored and I'm disappointed not to have to got the full 12 points. After spending the whole of the season in the top spot we drop down to second after Carrarese wipes out the points lead we had. We've got 9 games left to play and it seems that we've chosen to do it the hard way.

January 2023 Victor San Marino Oh dear, only 1 point in January and 2 loses, including one against 2nd place Lentigione isn't going to help with winning the league. Including the last game in December that means we've not won a in our last 4. Well January has cost us and seen Lentigione claw back to only 2 points behind. Transfer wise Duse comes in as an upgrade in DM and I've renewed the contract of players I want for next season and transfer listed the rest.

Clearly the game has realised what your trying to achieve with the save and have said no

Thanks fella, 2 wins and a draw is definitely San Marino Hall of Fame form

December 2022 Victor San Marino Had to do both Novembers and Decembers fixtures as one entry as I accidently played the Prato fixture without taking a screenshot of the league table. Either way it was a nigh on perfect 2 months with draws against Carrarese, Forte Querceta and Carpi as the only blemishes. We continue to remain strong at the back with only 5 goals conceded in 9 games. Pellanda proving to be a fantastic signing for us in shoring up this between the sticks. We extend our lead at the top of the table to 8 points with over half of the season gone. Another excellent youth intake but not as good as last year, which was a golden generation intake but my only concern is that due to our overall club finances and the state of our youth and training facilities unless we get players that are good enough to be around the first team then it doesn't matter how good the intake is as they're not going to progress enough to be with us in the long run. San Marino National Team We also got our group for the upcoming Euros qualifiers and in all honesty its gonna be a long qualifying process, can't really see us getting anything from any of them.

Ah nuts that’s unfortunate, hopefully you’ll be be given a move favourable draw next season

October 2022 Victor San Marino Another very good month in the league, only the 2 loses to Forli who are our senior affiliates and Belfiorese. We also went out of the Cup to Fezzanese but I'm not too worried about that. We've managed to increase our lead at the top of the table to 7 points and we've basically ensured safety from relegation as we were told at the start of the season that 40 points are needed to avoid being relegated. Having said that after 13 games and 33 points I've now got my eyes on more than battling against relegation.

Hopefully you’ll beat Hertha in the return fixture and they’ll lose to United and you can sneak 2nd spot in the group

Cheers fella, the Latvia win was so enjoyable but I had the kids asleep upstairs and had to mute the celebrations. The league was a worry just due to the number of draws we kept getting towards the end of the season.

September 2022 Victor San Marino The board are expecting us to "Fight bravely against relegation" and the season preview has us down to finish 17th so this could be a long, hard season. At least the fans are giving us some hope with an extra 13 people picking up season tickets. Well a perfect month in the league has certainly repaid the faith in the fans, and if it wasn't for the 2 we conceded against Mezzolara it would have been a month with out conceding as well with would have been wonderful. We're also through to the second round of the Serie D cup with is great, hopefully we'll get some financial benefit from that but I feel winning it might not be possible. Our perfect month in the league sees us soaring at the top of the league with a 2 point gap already, whilst favourites Carrarese and Carpi are in 12th and 13th respectively. And I though Serie D was gonna be a struggle. San Marino National Team We had 2 games left to play in the Nations League against Latvia and Liechtenstein. Well get got a draw against Latvia that could have been a win as Latvia went down to 10 men after 38 minutes but we just couldn't score. On the other hand we found our shooting boots for the Liechtenstein game and smashed 3 past them to finish the group in style. The only question is where did we finish. After starting the Nations League group on a run of 120 losses in a row, we managed to get 2 wins and a draw in the next 4 and somehow little San Marino have won the group with a respectable g/d of +4 to get promoted to League C.

August 2022 Victor San Marino We had a nice easy Pre Season, scoring loats of goals and getting wins over other Serie D teams which is always good. Should probably have beaten Fabriano Cerreto but I was in the garden with the kids whilst the match was playing so wasn't able to ensure we didn't lose our 2-0 lead. I made a total of 8 new signings for our first stab at Serie D. Unfortunately there was an issue of ambition and location that stopped me from getting any real talent that will help us progress in the long run as most players either didn't want to move relocate to San Marino or didn't think we were ambitious enough. Either way I think I've managed to buy relatively well and whilst they more than likely won't last to see us into Serie C, they will certainly do a job for us for now. Pellanda comes in as first choice GK, boasting much better kicking than our our previous No.1 and is generally a decent upgrade. Both Furlan and Massaccesi improve our backline and whilst Furlan is on loan this season I will be trying to sign him when his contract runs out at the end of the season, unless we get a very unexpected promotion. Menghi and Beatrizzotti have both been brought in to play in the middle of the park in the new formation we will be using. Menghi is going to be taking the starting role in a 2 man midfield with star player Santoni, whereas Beatrizzotti was brought more for his technical and mental abilities rather than his physicals which he is severly lacking. Albonetti re-joins us on a contract after being on loan last season, during which time he managed 10 goals and 3 assists in 26 games and also had a 7.29AV R. He'll be our starting left winger. Pilastro on the other hand will be fighting for the right wing berth. Finally we managed to get Bolzan on loan from Roma, completely free of charge. He'll be our starting AF next to last seasons top goalscorer Carrer. Hopefully Bolzan's acceleration, along with his trio of 12s for the "Holy Trinity" should ensure he bangs in more than his fair share this season. Finally this is the tactic we will be using for the foreseeable future. I got this from @Makoto Nakamurafrom his career thread in Africa, must say if you haven't I recommend giving it a read, @Makoto Nakamuraalways delivers when it comes to great career threads. Anyways as someone who doesn't normally play lower league or obscure leagues I decided to copy @Makoto Nakamuraand use the same tactic as he's always in weird and wonderful leagues. Once we start reaching Serie B and Serie A I will be trying to make my own tactics.

June 2022 San Marino National Team We got drawn against Latvia and Liechtenstein in a 3 team Nations League group. Liechtenstein looks like they could be a potential scalp with them being only 18 places ahead of us in the FIFA rankings. Kaspars Gorkss!, Marians Pahars! Your boys took one hell of a beating!! (It's really hard to find famous Latvians that are commonly known) Unbelievablei thought that we'd have a chance of taking a point off of Liechtenstein but to get 3 from Latvia in a convincing 4-1 win was outstanding from the lads. Unfortunately we couldn't do the same at Liechtenstein in what was a close game but we just kept fluffing our lines in front of goal. After the fantastic win against Latvia and the 2 goals we got in the losing effort to Liechtenstein we're actually top of the group with another match against each to finish off the fixtures for the Nations League for this calendar year. With us being in League D group 2 I don't know if winning the group puts us into group 1 or League C, so that will be interesting to find out. Finally I was going to keep a log of how long it would take before we got a win with San Marino in this save but after 120 consecutive loses, 8 of them as manager we got a win and hopefully the dream of World Cup glory can start to blossom.

Thanks fella, are there any PIs?. kinda need a tactic to use whilst in the lower leagues in the San Marino challenge I’m doing

April 2022 Victor San Marino 2 games to play and only 3 points between us and Fya Riccione, we got off to a bad start by losing to Valsanterno but we weren't punished too badly by Fya Riccione as they drew against Del Duca Grama to cut the deficient to only 2 points and take the league to the last game of the season. For the last game of the season we put Tropical Coriano to the sword and with better finishing it would have been more than 3-0. Fya Riccione wilted in the final game of the season and lost to Valsanterno just as we did and so we ended up winning the league with a 5 point margin (that really should have been more as all season we created several chances every match but found it so difficult to finish them). With that we are finished with the Eccellenza and will be plying out trade in Serie D next season, hopefully that will bring in more finances and we can begin bankrolling the improvement of our training and youth facilities. Always nice to finish the season with some silverwear........I'm sure Spurs fans can imagine . I joke of course (my Dad's a Spurs fan so i couldn't resist). Finally we get a cool £8.4k for transfers and our wage budget increases by £2.2k a week so we should have some room for improvements across the team once the transfer market is open. I've decide I'm going to wait until the window opens before I start looking for players for next season, purely so I can see which released players that haven't been scooped up are available and also hopefully once the new season begins to roll around it'll improve my standing and more players will be open to moving to San Marino for their football.

Jesus you get a nice little gap at the top of the league and the draw gods punish you with United, arguably the only team you could have got worse that that was City

March 2022 Victor San Marino Only the 2 matches in March, with a hard fought win over Classe before a 0-0 stalemate against Fya Riccione. The win over Classe means that we maintain a lead over Fya Riccione in the league as we head into the last 2 matches of the season. With Savignanese too far back to challenge us, it means that the league will be going to either us or Fya Riccione. We've been top of the league since November so it would be a shame to miss out on winning the title in the last 2 matches. We also had a great youth intake with 2 potential 5* players in Betti and Mitrano as well as lost of 3 1/2 - 4* players. Unfortunately most of them seem to be wingers but I'll be reviewing them at the end of the season and looking at retraining to fit our tactic. Also with the intake being so good, unless there are some better players available if we get promoted, almost all of the youth intake that we sign will be in the squad for next season as there's not a great deal attribute wise between them and what we already have. Oh we also has a friendly with the San Marino National Team against Luxembourg but we got hammered 4-0 so nothing really so say about that.

February 2022 Victor San Marino February was a decent month, taking 8 points from a possible 12 but again we could only manage a goalless draw with Russi. We maintain out spot at the top of the table but with 4 games left to go and 1 of them being against 2nd placed Fya Riccione, our issue with finishing has me worried that a 3 point lead may not be enough.