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4th july 2043 – Lima, Peru (A short story)

Chris Earl II walkes on to the pitch at Monumental Universidad San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Its 3 hours to kick off and the manager takes his time to remember his glorious career so far. Will it be another success tonight?

It all started 29 years ago in a small office inside the stadium in Bristol. Earl II was a totally unknown manager when he 21 years old took charge at Bristol Rovers. Already in his first season he took Rovers from 18th and up to promotion. (League fixtures part 1, part 2). He also did well in the Johnstone Paint Trophy (cup view).

In his second season, the first full one he did even better. Winning League Two at the first take was quite some achievement. Once again he overacieved in cup tournaments aswell.

After almost 2 seasons at Rovers, the fans where sad to see their manager leave. An offer from Brighton Hove & Albion where too good to turn down. It would soon become obvious to the football world, that this manager stopped at nothing to enhance his career. Earl II won promotion from Championship to Premier League at the very first try.

During his time at Brighton, Earl II managed an international team at the same time for the first time in his career. He took charge of Ivory Coast in 2017, and won the African Cup of Nations in 2019.

Second season at Brighton saw the manager first attempt at top flight football. He soon found out that Brighton didnt have the best resources to succeed in England. So the possibility came for him to move to German side Wolfsburg. He jumped on the plain to get to Volkswagen Arena. Moved the team from 6th to 5th in the first try, but the club failed FFP to be excluded from Europa League in the next season.

Second season at Wolfsburg ended with a second place behind superior Schalke 04. A big dissapointment for Earl II and he moved club once again, now to the football loving country of Brazil where he took charge at Internacional.

In his first attempt it ended with a first league trophy for Earl II as Internacional won Brazilian National First Division.

Then the manager got restless and wanted to move back to Europe. Roma in Italy had underperformed in the first part of the season, but they where still in Champions League. Earl II enjoyed maybe his best part of the career at Roma, winning Champions League twice, the Italian Serie A, Italian Cup and Club World Championships. He enjoyed players like Andrea Florenzi, Miralem Pjanic, Lionel Messi and Memphis Depay.

While at Roma, Earl II also took charge of France. And in the summer of 2022 he could call him self World Cup winner for the first time. Earl II then left to take of Brazil, where he managed for the first and only time in his career to get sacked in the summer of 2023 after loosing to Mexico U23 in the quarter final of Copa America.

In the meantime he had won both the Premier League with Man.City together with English FA Cup and English League Cup. And he had also won Ligue 1 with Paris SG and the French League Cup. But he never won the French FA Cup.

Earl II then moved to Corinthians where he won the Brazlian National First Division again, the Brazilian Cup and the Copa Libertadores.

The manager then moved to Mexico and America (MEX) where he won both the Apertura and Clausura part of the Liga MX and he also won the North American Champions League.

Paraguay National team was the next stop and Earl II won the World Cup for the second time in 2026, but then left Paraguay to take over France yet again. He resigned as manager at France after not being able to win Euro Nations.

In between he had won Eresdivisie and the Dutch Cup together with Europa League with Ajax, Bundesliga and another Europa League with Dortmund and La Liga, Copa Del Rey with Real Madrid.

Earl II then moved to South Africa and Kaizer Chiefs. 2,5 successful seasons at the Chiefs saw the manager win all domestic cups and leagues on 2 occasions and the African Champions League once, before leaving to join Suwon of South Korea.

After an unsuccessful spell at Spain, Earl II lifted Euro Nations with Italy in 2032, together with European Nations League, and a Confederations Cup in 2033.

At Suwon he won the Korean K League Classic, and the Asian Champions League. He then moved to Sporting CP where he won Taca de Portugal, Portuguese League Cup and Primeira Liga.

With Mexico National Team he won the Gold Cup in 2035, and almost won the Copa America but lost in the final to Ecuador.

That was in 2035, the same year as he won the Greek Cup with Olympiakos, but not the League.

With Celtic he won 2 league titles, 2 FA cup titles, and 2 league cup titles together with another Europa League.

Then he went on to win Asian Championships with South Korea in 2039, before moving to Arsenal. With Arsenal he won the Premier League again and the League Cup, but then failed to win most other trophies spending a lot of time on holiday.

Finally in 2042 he was given the opportunity to make up for his mistake with Brazil nearly 20 years ago. Brazil was going to play Copa America in 2043.

The group stage saw Brazil play Mexico U23, Uruguay and Ecuador. Brazil won their group after 2 wins, and 1 draw.

Quarter Final was played against Chile with Brazil winning 4-0. Semi Final saw Brazil beat Ecuador 5-1. Now it was that one final game to go before the manager could quit and rest after a glorious career. The Final at Monumental against Argentina.

THE FINAL

Brazil takes the lead after just 7 mins, through Maurcio Bueno (Arsenal).

Argentina makes it 1-1 just 3 mins later through Nestor Serrano.

But then Junior (AC Milan) makes it 2-1 for Brazil after 39 mins.

3-1 M.Bueno again after 74 mins, and just a minute later 4-1 Vinicius (Juventus).

6 mins before the end, Junior settles the score 5-1 for Brazil.

Earl II walks off the pitch with a great smile, hail the manager, the greatest of all time. The Earl takes the throne and intends to stay there!!!

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