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    [FM22] Forza San Giovanni - A San Marino Youth Only Challenge

    in FM Career Updates

    Posted · Edited by Bedese

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    9 out of the 15 clubs in the league are predicted to finish 6th, so... :idiot:

    All the teams in the league appear to be Semi-Pro now, though! That's a fun change, but a shame we actually have to pay people now :lol: 

     

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    In true Sunday League fashion, our best tactic looks to be to put everybody behind the ball and then hoof it long to either a big man or a fast guy, both of whom presumably aren't actually very good at football.

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    [FM22] Forza San Giovanni - A San Marino Youth Only Challenge

    in FM Career Updates

    Posted · Edited by Bedese

    Some more fun anecdotes from the National Team that I've found over the years:

    - When San Marino earned their first ever point against Estonia, the players celebrated by.... drinking strawberry vodka and smoking cigarettes all night long, a thought that would certainly upset the fitness staff for a bigger team but sounds like one excellent way to party.

    - San Marino were 'sponsored' by Adidas - I say sponsored, because Adidas would only give them blank shirts, on which they'd have to sew the Sammarinese badge on themselves.

    - When Manuel Battistini swapped shirts with Wayne Rooney, he tried it on 'to see where Rooney's muscles were'.

    - Against Lithuania, San Marino won a free kick. Nicola Chiaruzzi told Matteo Vitaioli to try the 'dead leaf' free kick technique. Vitaioli didn't know what that was or how to do it, so he just smashed it as hard as he could. That was San Marino's first away goal in 14 years.

    - Nicola Chiaruzzi missed San Marino's game against Slovenia because he couldn't find anybody to cover his shift at a bar. Similarly, goalkeeper Aldo Junior Simoncini once missed a game against Ukraine to stay home and study Algebra for an exam. San Marino lost 9-0, but Simoncini passed his exam.

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    [FM22] Forza San Giovanni - A San Marino Youth Only Challenge

    in FM Career Updates

    Posted

    San Marino are, quite literally, the worst team in world football. Sitting at 211st out of 211 national teams, they're below such giants as Eritrea (who's entire National Team seems to flee and seek asylum every time they play an away game), The British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat... you get the point.

    With a population of 33,000, San Marino have as many competitive wins as they do traffic lights in the country - zero. One of the smallest countries in the world, they have a National holiday every time the team scores a goal. They don't get those holidays very often.

    The players in the national team are essentially the same as you and me. Outside of one or two professionals, they all work real, 9-5 jobs. They head into every game knowing that not only is a win unlikely, but to keep the score down to less than 5 would be a good day at the office. They're underdogs in every sense of the word. With club football being increasingly dictated by the size of the owners wallet, many fans are instead looking towards international football. There's no money in international football, no buying better players or skirting around financial fair play rules. It's a question of sport, rather than finances. There's always a chance of an underdog causing an upset, and San Marino might be the biggest underdogs there are in the sporting world.

    These are ordinary people, going out to compete for their country against some of the best players in the world. My favourite story about the National Team is this:

    In their final pre-match warmup before taking on England, Nicola Chiaruzzi's boots fell apart. Chiaruzzi went off to Wembley in search of a new pair of boots, and had a shop assistant begin to explain to him how best to break in the boots. Chiaruzzi calmly explained that, actually, he wouldn't have the time to do that. He was looking for boots that he could wear in two hours time at Wembley.

    Despite being continually ridiculed by the press in every game they play, they continue to compete, hoping that one day, an upset might come.

    Let's see if we can get that upset.

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    [FM22] Forza San Giovanni - A San Marino Youth Only Challenge

    in FM Career Updates

    Posted

    Hello!

    I could do a long and rambly introduction, but that's not really my style - my updates tend to be very brief, and sometimes sporadic, and detail isn't really my strong suit - oh, and I'm also quite bad at FM, so we may not make very much progress :lol: 

    Instead, I'm going to copy and paste the introduction from one of my last attempts, because it's not plagiarism if you admit it, right?

    Before that, though, here's the lowdown. Because @Makoto Nakamurainspired me to do so years ago, I'm going to take charge of San Giovanni, the least successful team in San Marino, which puts them on the same level as a midtable U8s Bulgarian team. The ultimate aim from the club side is to win the Champions League with San Giovanni, but because this challenge is really about San Marino, the real goal is to win a World Cup with the mighty Titani - or, failing that, maybe just winning a competitive game or two. To do that, the challenge is going to be youth only - we're not going to sign anybody with San Giovanni (I'm undecided on whether or not I'll allow myself to re-sign any ex-youth players yet...), instead relying solely on youth intakes to bring through new talent that's hopefully slightly better than what we currently have.

    Normally when I do this, my 'realistic' aim for the save is usually just to make it into a Champions League group stage. However, with FM adding in dynamic youth ratings this year, I'm really intrigued to see how far we can actually drag this tiny nation up - it should be a fun ride, hopefully!

    With thanks to @Pompeyboyzfor his work on investigating youth development on the new FM, @Jimbokav1971for inspiring me with his saves to think a bit more in depth about FM and youth development (and maybe goalscoring GKs down the line ;)) and to anybody who fancies coming along for the ride!

     

    So... why San Marino?

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    [FM20] Growing up down Wembley Way

    in FM Career Updates

    Posted

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    Holy...

    I have no idea what happened. I expected Lincoln to be 3 up on us by halftime, but instead we were the ones 3-0 up at halftime! We absolutely cruised past them, and we're into the Third Round with the big boys! An away draw against one of them would probably see us ship double digits, but would fix our finances...

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    :eek:

    Well... I hope our keeper has a good councillor :lol: 

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    [FM20] Growing up down Wembley Way

    in FM Career Updates

    Posted

    Okay, so this has been a weird season...

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    I didn't think we were good enough to be real title challengers, because I think we're still a year of development away from being able to really compete at the higher level. However, we lost just 7 games this year - the least in the league - with the best goal difference in the league, and if it wasn't for Halesowen getting a ridiculous 92 points, we'd have smashed the league. As it is, we're into the playoffs - and even though it's only the Quarter Finals, we probably have an okay chance of winning them.

     

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