Tony Hawker Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 San Marino San Marino Flag, Shirt & National Stadium (Stadio Olimpica; Capacity 7,000) Info: The San Marino national football team (Italian: Nazionale di calcio di San Marino) is the national football team of San Marino, controlled by the San Marino Football Federation (FSGC). The team has enjoyed very little success due to the republic's tiny population, the smallest of any UEFA country. The first official game played by a San Marino team was a 4–0 defeat in a European Championships qualifier to Switzerland in 1990. Previously, a San Marino side had lost 0–1 to a Canadian Olympic team in 1986, but this was not an official match. Since making their competitive bow, San Marino have competed in qualifying for every European Championships and World Cup, but have never won a match in either competition. They have only ever won one game, beating Liechtenstein 1–0 in a friendly match on 28 April 2004. So since their first international losing to Switzerland 4-0, San Marino have won 1 game and only drawn 4 games in 21 years, now it's my turn to try and take them forward.....no matter how long it takes. I've also loaded the San Marino league to see what happens and how they will develop and search for the first San Marinese Wonderkid Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 World Ranking: July 2010 : 207th January 2011 : 204th July 2011 : 205th January 2012 : 203rd July 2012 : 198th January 2013 : 191st July 2013 : 196th January 2014 : 200th July 2014 : 202nd January 2015 : 187th July 2015 : 187th January 2016 : 201st July 2016 : 201st January 2017 : 196th July 2017 : 203rd January 2018 : 136th July 2018 : 125th January 2019 : 178th July 2019 : 156th January 2020 : 173rd July 2020 : 167th January 2021 : 200th July 2021 : 179th January 2022 : 205th July 2022 : 207th January 2023 : 207th July 2023 : 208th January 2024 : 207th July 2024 : 204th January 2025 : 196th July 2025 : 168th January 2026 : 133rd July 2026 : Campionato Sammarinese June 2010 : 886th June 2011 : 884th (UP 2) June 2012 : 775th (UP 109) June 2013 : 509th (UP 266) June 2014 : 391st (UP 118) June 2015 : 294th (UP 97) June 2016 : 293rd (UP 1) June 2017 : 358th (DOWN 65) June 2018 : 459th (DOWN 101) June 2019 : 294th (UP 165) June 2020 : 232nd (UP 62) June 2021 : 175th (UP 57) June 2022 : 122nd (UP 53) June 2023 : 98th (UP 24) June 2024 : 76th (UP 22) June 2025 : 57th (UP 19) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 First Game: Friendly - Kuwait 1-1 San Marino Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 the sole goalscorer in both games was 34 year old Andy Selva. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Losing 4-1 at home to Moldova does not bode well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 They were a lot better than us on the day...what can i say In other news.....San Marino have won a game! the first friendly of the season winning 3-2 at home against the mighty.....ZANZIBAR! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 International Friendly: San Marino 4 - 1 Northern Mariana Goalscorers: Andy Selva (pen 28) - Mattia Guerra own goal (57) Gilmark Tan own goal (45+1) Matteo Bugil (46) Mattia Guerra (88) Hopefully this has given the guys some confidence for the next few European Qualifiers; home to Finland & Hungary Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichG Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Man that is some big defeats. Good luck with this. How are you going to develop the players? You have no control over that aspect as it is down to the clubs. I would manage a San Marino team as well to grow the club level status also or you will never get the players you need. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Yea, I'm going to take over a club, I just have to wait for a manager to get sacked first Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Well...we lost every major game but nearly beat Moldova away from home, On the upside, atleast we are winning the friendly games:D Declaring interest in the San Marinese teams and their laughing me off....I've been in charge of there country for 19 months! EDIT: How the European Qualifying Finished; And World Cup Qualification groups have been drawn: Will hopefully get a point or 2 of Bulgaria and FYR Macedonia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK22 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 That's the worst negative goal difference I think I've ever seen in an International Qualifying Group! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichG Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 lol that is some tough qualifying. What's your rating with the FA? I think much the same is coming in the WC group as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 San Marino as of May 2012 are ranked 206th out of 208 with 29 points Also Andy Selva is retiring at the end of June along with a couple more of our good older players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichG Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 No one has ever done a small International career save so I would do one of two things with this career. 1) Manage all the teams yourself. I.e. U21, U19 and U18's as that will give you some kind of idea what is coming through the ranks for future players. Just managing the main team will end up driving you crazy if you keep losing all the qualifiers. 2) Maybe consider FMRTE and do some tweaks. Maybe give all the San Marino clubs good youth facilities + academies to give you a chance in future years. I am not saying look at the CA and PA of players at all just give yourself some kind of chance. Unless you can control the domestic growth you will never stand a chance. It is a great idea to try and take a very small nation to a world cup but you are at the mercy of the AI and they do not develop a nation on their own. They need real player intervention to achieve this. Just some ideas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Thanks RichG, I appreciate your idea, I will take charge of the youth teams to monitor future players, but I'm anti FMRTE so I probably won't be using that. In other news Andy Selva has retired but also this: Hopefully this will get some good youth as they have a Youth Academy already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanista1994 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Good luck with this challenge. The usual approach for this type of club and country challenge with San Marino is taking over San Marino Calcio in the Italian lower leagues, any reasons why you decided to only load the San Marinese league? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 The San Marinese league is alot smaller than loading Italy down to Serie C/2 so I wanted the game to go faster, and I thought it would be a bigger challenge as a whole. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanista1994 Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Thought it would be something along those lines. Buona continuazione then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Won the friendlies, lost the matches that matter, I expect this to be the way things go until about 2016 when we start getting some hopefully better regens in Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewFM Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Good luck with this one man, looks a very challenging career. I hope they don't decide to sack you before you have a chance to really turn things around for San Marino, although I'm sure they don't expect too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 We have literally have NO expectations, for the World Cup Qualifiers "The board hope you can learn from the experience of participating in the World Cup Quals (EUR)" I can do no wrong... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Is it possible to get sacked from that job? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 I don't know and I don't really want to find out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Heh, I wonder how you'd go about getting success? I suppose it's down to mainly tactics... Well I'll be following! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 well we've actually gotten our best away result to a good team i think, 3-0 loss away to Portugal!! we're going up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 YESSSSS!!!! BY FAR MY FAVOURITE RESULT SO FAR! 0 Shots & 34% possession and we draw who would've thought what effect a change of tactics would have :thup: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Great result, I presume you were using a 10-0-0 tactic? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 nope 4-1-2-1-2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Other than the 0-0 result with Poland it wasn't exactly a good year. I was hoping to lose by a bit less goals to Romania, then I saw that they were ranked 21st in the world... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 European Championship Qualifying Groups announced: Hopefully able to get a couple of points from Azerbaijan and Ireland. England have a straight forward group in my eyes; England Romania Bosnia & Herzegovnia Lithuania Kazakhstan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichG Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 lol 0 shots man. You have a long road ahead of you mate. Any regens coming through yet? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Well no amazing regens have come trhough for obvious reasons but i have called a couple up and am monitoring how a 16 year old is playing for the U19's: The 2 already in the squad And the 16 year old who has already scored 2 against Kazakhstan U19 to win 3-1: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 At least he'll convert some penalties for you! I presume you'll bring him into the senior team too? And that keeper looks half decent too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 A Good year, we even got our first point in the European Championship a 1-1 draw at home to Azerbaijan who were 80 places ahead of us at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Hopefully this will give us some better youths; currently basic training and minimal youth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 NEVER letting the ass man choose the friendlies again (last 2 fixtures) went from 186th to 201st losing those 2 games.....Infuriating:mad: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 How the European Qualifiers finished: We actually managed to get a point!! World Cup Qualifiers announced and we have 3 of the 4 home nations in our group. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anost Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Absolutely love these kinds of careers. Congrats on the 0-0 draw with Poland and the point against Azerbaijan. Will be watching closely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Thanks Anost, good to know people are following Just had this goal in a 3-0 demolition of Anguilla: [video=youtube;t8C5Xz8xFV4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8C5Xz8xFV4 Even more amazing, we were down to 10 men after only 4 minutes! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.W.G Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Impressive result against Poland and also nice to see your making progress with San Marino, I reckon you could nick a point against Malta as well. Keep up the good work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Brilliant goal, especially from a team with such little technical skill! And I'm with you on the 'knowing that people are following', it really helps to keep you motivated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 Thanks B.W.G and offen94 Just picked my squad to face East Timor and....England, England have just won the European Championship beating Spain 3-2 in the final. Spain won the 2010 and 2014 World Cup and the 2012 European Championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 If you beat England, that would just be incredible! East Timor is definitely winnable though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatwal Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 How is the San Marino league going And good luck and you are doing well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 We beat East Timor 1-0 but this players name severly stuck out to me You have to be Jesus to say that name And San Marino League Winners: 2011 - Juvenes Dogona 2012 - Fiorentino 2013 - Pennarossa 2014 - Juvenes Dogona 2015 - Juvenes Dogona 2016 - Domagnano San Marino have 1 spot in ECC Champions Second Qualifying Phase and 1 spot in the EURO Cup Second Qualifying Round The League ranking of 293 is currently 2 places below Blue Square North/South. Juvenes Dogana are now Professional Tre Penne have gone Semi-Professional. And here is how the clubs finances are doing: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 It seems like Sammarinese football is in the ascendancy, now with a professional club! Good luck against England! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Guys, I think I'm going to temporarily resign from San Marino and focus on a club so we can get some youth as we aren't faring too well (lost 11-0 to England) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 If you resign you might not get your job back... You may as well focus on the club and manage internationally in the background, no? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Hawker Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 If I resign and want the job back after I've gotten youths and the league up then I could always add a new manager to the national team then retire him so I'd be able to get the job back Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GylfiAsCharged Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Ahh, good thinking. In that case, do whatever you think will benefit San Marino more! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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