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Pretty sure they've got to be there 3 years before their 21st birthday to be considered home-grown, and with South Americans not being allowed to move until they reach 18 that makes it extremely tough.

Almost impossible, in fact. But let's have a go anyway... at least at trying to qualify. Join my Argentinian alter-ego Salvador Berrezzi on his new thread - here.

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For the CL itself there is a home-grown restriction - it's not just the leagues. I'm not entirely sure this is actually logisitcally possible, but I'd be interested to see people try.

That's why I think it's probably only possible to do it with a German or Dutch club (with no league restriction) and sign South American kids - do they not become homegrown if they've been through the ranks for a number of years? I'd buy certain players from South American under 19 teams for my own under 19 squad, and bring them through over a number of years. Which means it would probably take 8 to ten seasons to even be in a position to achieve the challenge. But I'm sure it must be possible somehow.

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I don't know whether this has ever been suggested here before, but what about a 'South America rules Europe' challenge?

My idea was this - you set yourself up as a manager with any South American nationality, giving yourself a suitably South American name! You load at the very least Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay leagues, two divisions of each, PLUS ONE EUROPEAN LEAGUE. I suppose you could add Chile and other countries if you wish.

The challenge is to take control of a club in the European league, and win the European Champions League with them, but with an entirely South American match squad and staff.

I'm not sure how popular this would be as people will say 'ah it wouldn't happen in real life', but this is a game.... imagine the European club has the backing of a South American oil company or something, I'm sure it's possible to change sponsors or something on one of these editor things.

Anyway, how you'd do it is up to you. You could try Barcelona or Man City and buy the very best South Americans you can find, but you'd have to have the dual EU nationality for most of them, and also to get rid of the top European players gradually as well. Or you could try a league like Holland or, I think, Germany, where this is no non-EU or homegrown restriction, and try to get the very best South American kids, and mould them into a side... by the time you're challenging for the CL, they'd all be naturalised Europeans anyway to agree with the 8+4 or whatever it is.

It might be good in Portugal too, to get a side made up of entirely Brazilians, but you need to know your Brazilian football to get anywhere, even into the CL.

Also, there'd be no point in trying to do this all at once - take over a club, and replace all the Europeans with South Americans in one transfer window. I'd be curious myself how long it would take to put together such a squad and one which would be competitive, particularly somewhere like Germany or Holland.

Anyone interested in this? I wouldn't expect anyone to win the CL, but I'd be interested to see others screen shots of squads and most memorable matches etc.