DaNascimento

March - April 2020 After the fulminant start, we landed back in reality. Just two wins in the last seven games. Not what we want to achieve. First four teams secured their playoff-spots. If we continue like in the last games, we could become some troubles.

January - February 2020 Really good start with four wins in a row. Didn't expect that. Guerra looks like a pretty good scorer. Our aim is to get a playoff-spot.

Trujillanos Fútbol Club is located in the nort-west of Venezuela. It was founded in 1981. In 1989 the club secured his first promotion to the Primera Division. The only successes of the club is the win of the Copa Venezuela in 1992 and 2010. 2008 Trujillanos was relegated to Segunda Division. Two years later they made it to the Primera Division again. Our homebase is the Estadio José Alberto Pérez. A stadium built in 1976 and with a capacity of 30.000. The Team Pretty decent squad, i think i can work with that. A good amount of expierenced players and a bunch of young talents. Tactically we will start with a 4-2-3-1 formation. The League So here it gets interessant. Like most of the south american leagues, the Primera Division or in FM the Liga de Fútbol Profesional de Venezuela is splitted in an Opening an Closing Stage. In the Opening Stage between January and July we play every team once. After 18 games the best eight teams qualify for the playoffs, where the champion of the Opening Stage is crowned. Same thing in the Closing Stage between August and November. In the end the two champions play another two games against each other, to see who will be the champion. A bit a wild ride, but lets go!

Job-Hunt We start the save at the beginning of 2020, because most of the leagues in south america is played from january till the end of the year. In order to the league ranking we should start in bolivia. But as long as there is no job avaiable, it looks like our journey leads us to peru or venezuela. Application for all jobs went out and the first club which will offer us a contract will be our starting point. So it's FC Trujillanos from Venezuela. The only south american country, that never qualified for a world cup. Venezuela is economically probably the worst spot to start, but let's face this challenge. Trujillanos F.C. has won twice the Copa Venezuela but never the championship. A pretty average club in a pretty average league. More to come.

South America Adventure South America - a continent full of wonderkids and good footballers. But also a region with few financial ressources. I want to discover this a bit more, but not just on the sunny side of the successful teams like River Plate, Palmeiras or Flamengo, also in less good leagues like Venezuela or Bolivia. So let me introduce you to my South America Adventure. The rules are easy: Win the championship in every nations of South America, if possible with a team, that never won it before. Playable are all the leagues in the above shown countries. The aim is to start in one of the worst-ranked leagues like bolivia, venezula or peru. So let's jump into this! Career 2020 - Trujillanos F.C. (Opening Stage: 7th / Playoffs: Final Runner-up) / (Closing Stage: 7th / Playoffs: Final Runner-up) 2021 - Trujillanos F.C. (Opening Stage: 5th / Playoffs: Final Runner-up) / (Closing Stage: 3rd / Playoffs: Champion) 2022 - Atlético River Plate (Opening Stage: 3rd) / (Closing Stage: 3rd) / (Overall Table: 2nd) 2023 - Atlético River Plate (Opening Stage: 3rd) / (Closing Stage: 9th) / (Overall Table: 4rd) 2024 - Atlético River Plate (Opening Stage: 2nd) / (Closing Stage: 1st) (Playoff vs Penãrol: Champion) 2025 - ADFP Club Cienciano (Opening Stage: 3rd) / (Closing Stage: 2nd) (Playoff vs Cusco: Champion) 2026 - Club Fernando de la Mora (Opening Stage: 4th) / (Closing Stage: 2nd) 2027 - Club Fernando de la Mora (Opening Stage: 2nd)

thanks! no got an italian consortium who was before in charge at Parma. But they wanted to bring in Dolberg and Gabriel Menino as present. In the end just the brazilian came. The two prospects looks very nice. But yeah, the B-Team is important for development. You don't play till Segunda Divison B or do they even play lower?

Following this, because i'm also on a Valencia save atm (luckly in my case Lim left after one and a half year). Interesting to see, how your youth prospects will develop

April 2022 The month of the truth! We started focused and the team delivered, what we were expecting from it. A 1-0 win over Lokomotive and a 4-0 victory against Opatija was a good start into the month. Things got even better because Rijeka drop some points in Opatija in the first game and Dinamo lost to Sibenik! But then we throw the situation away with a draw against Gorica. Dinamo made a close win to Istra and Rijeka drop again points with a draw in Osijek. On the 33rd game day we scored three goals in the last 15 minutes for a 3-0 win over Istra. Zagreb and Rijeka were also able to get three points. Between the high noons, all three teams had to play in the semi-finals of the cup. Rijeka was able to win 1-0 against Osijek. We failed to took revenge over Zagreb and lost to an early goal from Theophile-Catherine. At the end of the month, two games where sheduled, which probably decided the championship. First we had the direct duel against Rijeka. A week later Dinamo and Rijeka clashed each other. And yeah, against Rijeka we were the better team, but couldn't find a way into the net. 12 to 2 shoots and Livaja missed from the spot before the break. A totally unlucky result and it got even worse, because Dinamo did it better a week later and won through a late winner with 1-0. One game less, but Dinamo is seven points infront. I think, we can gratulate them for the championship.

Yeah, that one was terrible. I forgot to mention, that Vuckovic was sent off after 24 minutes and then the disaster began. Even when Dinamo scored three of the six goals in the last ten minutes.

March 2022 March we started with a 4-1 victory over Osijek. Tonio Teklic came from the bench and straight scored two goals. In Rijeka a goalless draw followed and in Koprivnica Marin Ljubicic was the match winner with two goals. In Gorica we won 1-0 by a late goal from Rokas Pukstas. And then came the debacle: In Zagreb we lost 1-6 (!) against Dinamo! A totally failure at all levels. At least the team gave the fans their money back. After the international break we could then we could make it up again - at least a bit. A tight 2-1 win over Sibenik is nothing we can really celebrate. Three points behind Zagreb and Rijeka. This is going to be a thriller in the last 8 games!

Youth Intake 2022 Overall a bit weaker intake than the first one, but still some decent talents. Unfortunately with Lukic and Šušnjara two of the most promising talents have a really bad personality. This could become a problem, but lets hope, they will develop in our U19. Adding Bosnia and North Macedonia to our flag sheet.

February 2022 Well this month we didn't play great football, but luckly an effective one. Five wins, one draw and one loss. Seven goals and two goals conceded - if you want to watch spectacular football, mind Split at the moment

January 2022 Just one league game this month, but a really important one against Zagreb. And after we were defeated by Rijeka before the winter break, we can seal a 1-0 victory now in this crucial fixture! A penalty from Livaja was the only goal on that evening. The friendly games were nothing to mention. But unfortunately Filip Krovinovic suffered a horrible knee injury in training. He will be out for more than half a year, a huge miss for us! We didn't do any transfers in winter. But some young prospects signed a new deal, so we can build up the team around team hopefully.

December 2021 Heading into 2022 with a really short, and a total disappointing month. First we secured a tight win in the cup over Istra, thanks to a doublette from Filip Krovinovic. Then two really bad games followed. First we lost in the top game at home against Rijeka. And if that wasn't disappointed enough, we travelled to Ukraine, where Luhansk beated the hell out of us in the cold winter with a 2-4 win. So the ukrainians qualify for the Conference League and we are out of Europe again in the group stage. Two games less but it doesn't look as good as last season. We are nine points behind leader Rijeka! Lots of wingers, a good centre-back and two for the central midfield. Not the most promising preview, but i take everything that helps us!

November 2021 That looks actually much better! Despite the two really close defeats against Valencia and Monaco we could win all our league games this month! In the derby against Sibenik Elez, Ljubicic and Cuic get their names on the scoreboard. In Opatija Cubelic scored his first Prva Liga goal and against Istra Livaja was the MotM with a hattrick! In the Europe League is, like i expected, all down to the last game in Luhansk. But playing in december in Ukraine is never easy. We had a good month, but unfortunately our opponents Rijeka and Dinamo had also three wins.

October 2021 So this month was a bit better, but still not good. First we got a tight win over Osijek. In the top game against Dinamo, we could secure a late equalizer through Atanasov which rescued us a point. Also a late equalizer got us our first point in the Europa League. Against Monaco Kacaniklic scored the 3-3 in the 94. minute! Back in league business we got another, and really disappointing draw against Slaven Belupo. In the cup Stipe Biuk scored our only two goals against Croatia Zmijavci. And in the last game of the month, we throw away a 2-0 lead against Lokomotive. Hard times in croatia at the moment. It's probably all down to the last game against Luhansk for the 3rd place. We need to find back to winning, because Dinamo is allready five points ahead of us!

September 2021 Not the start we wanted. After an win in Istra, we lost the premier game in the Europa League in Valencia with 0-3. Three days later we faced another crucial defeat in Rijeka, while the hosts scored in the 92. minute. In the cup we could win against Varazdin before we draw in the league against Gorica. And the last lost hurts the most. At home we lost 1-2 against Sorja Luhansk. While we were a bit the better team in a tight game, the ukrainans scored the winner in the 89. minute. So we start the international campaign again with zero points. One point behind Dinamo and Osijek. Now we need to power up a bit.

August 2021 First a quick look on the outgoings this summer. Posavec we sold to Hoffenheim, because we focus on Silic in the nearer future and a million is good cash for the 25-years old Keeper. Mlakar will join him in the Bundesliga. Actually didn't thought of selling him, because he has massive potential. But the slovenian is not a homegrown player and the offer from Hoffenheim worth of 3,5 millions and 20% of the next sale profit was a good sale. And also Darko Nejasmic was leaving. The 22-years old had a good loan year at Osijek and i could use him in defensive midfield. But then Udinese came with a new investor and a nice offer, so we took the cash and try to develop Franjo Lazar in this position, who has bigger potential. Squad 2021/22 Keepers A good pair. With Subasic and experienced veteran goalie and with Silic a bright talent. Both will get their playtime in this season. Defenders The new central defender pair will be Elez and Dimitrov. Behind them we promoted 18-years old Robert Pelivan to the senior squad. On the wingbacks nothing changed. Right side will play Simic and Lovrencsics and on the left side Melnjak and Colina. Dolcek will play on the wing. Midfielders Here we have some new faces. Lazar and Pukstas were promoted from the U19. Cubelic and Teklic returned from a loan spell and will get their minutes. Both with massive talent. Atanasov developed really good in the last season and will be now a key player in midfield. Same for Cuic. Fossati, as key assist player last season, will also get much minutes. Vukovic is the first option in the defensive part. So many good options, that we get into a dilemma, because actually we don't really need Krovinovic anymore. But i didn't sold him this summer, because we need one or two experienced players in central midfield. Attackers Livaja is still the key player in the offensive, playing as left wing. Behind him Stipe Biuk came up from U19. Right side we have with Kacaniklic and Eduok some more expierenced options. In the front row Diamantakos and Ljubicic will fight for the one spot. The 19-years old striker made his arguments with allready 12 goals and the season didn't even start. Summarised we can say, that we have a really balanced and young team. Probably the squad is a bit weaker than last season, but that's okey, because we need to let the young players a bit time to develop. So back to business. Romanian side FCSB wasn't a big problem, wining 7-1 in aggregate. In Borrisow we had than our problems, losing 2-3. But in the reverse game at home, we won 4-0, thanks to a hattrick from Livaja and qualified for Europa League. There we face again a though group unfortunately. In the league we made it out to 3 wins out of 3 games. A good start!

July 2021 Our facilities our good, but they could be better. So i after the good run this season, i tried to upgrade them. But unfortunately both were rejected. The youth facilities the board allready believes as good enough and for the training facilities we don't have enough money. Because we started early into the Champions League Qualification we didn't had a long pre-season. On 7th of july we allready played the first international game this season. With Europa FC from Gibraltar we had a doable go and we won it with 13-1 in total score. Especially Marin Ljubičić had fun and scored 8 of the 13 goals. Between that two games, we had the Superkup against Dinamo Zagreb. That game was thougher, but thanks to a goal from Marco Fossati, we have won our first trophy for this season! Then totally out of nowhere we had the first league game (the second one is one month later). Livaja continued there, where he stopped last season and scored twice at the 2-0 victory! The Champions League campaign afterwards received a big damper. We faced serbish champion Red Star Belgrade and in the homegame we managed nothing. Losing 0-2, even if we had 12 shots and the serbians just 5. So we needed to success in serbia. Livaja brought us shortly before the break infront. But that wasn't the half-time score. In the extra-time the homeside got a penalty, which they scored to 1-1. Ten minutes after the break, we also get a penalty and Livaja made it to 2-1. But in the remaining time we didn't managed to score another goal and have to continue now in the Europa League Qualification.

Season 2020/21 - U19 Review Well, it was also for our U19 a wonderful season. 25 wins out of 26 games and scoring 81 goals - that's a dominant thing! I picked out the five best players of the season: Marin Ljubicic, Stipe Buik and Marko Domancic builded up a good attacking duo, scoring together over 60 goals. Luka Buble was the chief in midfield with 17 assists and next to him we have the very talented american Rokas Pukstas. So for next season Ljubicic and Buik will be promoted to the senior squad. Domancic and Buble will be loand out to Druga Liga and Pukstas is on the verge of the senior squad.

End of the Season Review 2020/21 5-1 over AEK and a 3-0 win in Zagreb. Really nice games to remember! Fossati, Subasic and Livaja settled new records. Simic also, but probably he's not proud of it. Diamantakos not really with a great season. I would have tought Kacaniklic on the right wing and Eduok in the front spot. Great team performance this season! Kalinic and unfortunately Katic will leave again this summer. Hoping, that we can hold together the team and bring in some new talents from our U19. Livaja is allready been chasing after his 19 goals this season.

May 2021 Well, we didn't even had to play. Because Dinamo didn't do their homework and lost to Osijek on 1st of May we became champions on the couch! Didn't expected that on the first season, but it's nice to allready achieve it. Because after this season probably some harder times are coming, till our youth players are finally developed. So after our little champions party, we probably were a bit tired in the game against Rijeka and it became a goalless draw. But the last two games of the season we could win again without a doubt. Only downer: The cup final we lost to Dinamo trough a goal from Petkovic. But i prefer to take the championship. I mean, you can't win everything on the first season. Statistics & Awards Livaja wins the goalscoring award. Veteran Subasic is awarded as best goalkeeper. Melnjak, Fossati, Atanasov, Livaja and Diamantakos were voted in the best eleven of the season.

April 2021 Another outstanding month from the team! We started with the most important game in Zagreb. Probably an early championship-decider. Nervosity? Nope! With 3-0 we smashed our rivals at their own stadium. Livaja again with two scores, what a season from the former talent! A week later he also scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Istra. Slaven Belupo we also beat 2-0. Again Livaja found the net and also defence-boss Katic with a goal. The month ended with two victories over Osijek and Hrvatski Zagreb. Zagreb still has one game more left, but we're 12 points infront now. This should it be... But we have games against Osijek and Rijeka infront of us. Dinamo just have Osijek and teams from the the lower table.

March 2021 What a month! 5 games and 5 wins! In the cup we get through to the final. In the quarter final we won 1-0 after a though fight against Rijeka. In the semi final we came back late through an equalizer from Dolcek and an late winner from Mlakar. In the final we face now... Dinamo Zagreb! In the league we beat Gorica, Lokomotive and Sibenik. The team is now in a good shape. Livaja and Eduok were the players in best form this games. 8 games left and should we allready start to dream? No, because Dinamo has still three games less than we and is just three points behind! Also nice to see: Our U19 has won the championship! 22 wins after 22 games - 4 games left to play - what a dominating statistic!

Youth Intake 2021 So, we were waiting long for our first intake. An important one, because it will be a will be a cornerstone for future success or failure. The preview spotted some good players, unfortunately no golden generation, but there should be some talents, who could play a role in our senior squad in some years. So lets look at the boys. Well, i allready mentioned, that we will have an kosovan midfielder. Leonard Ademi is also our top prospect from this generation. A balanced player, with a decent first touch and a high workrate! Bazdaric and Kulas looks also nice and are pacy wingers. But Bazdaric we need to retrain to an attacking winger, because wir not playing with normal wingers. And Kulas unfortunately has a bad personality. Bartul Jordan on the other hand could become our defense chief in near future! For the statistic lovers and some flag chasing.