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Moritz Hanraetz

Say hello to the hero (or villain) of my Football Manager 20 Touch save.

Moritz was born into a working middle-class family in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, more specifically the city of Stuttgart. He fell in love with the beautiful game at the little age of 6, and has been a die-hard supporter of his hometown club ever since. It has been a dream of his since those times as a child to eventually hoist the shirt of Die Roten above his head. However, his lack of not only technical, but physical ability to play even at a sunday league level forced him to give up those dreams. Now, he is trying his hand at football management.

Game Settings

I have loaded Germany (3. Liga), France (National), and Switzerland (Challenge League), as France and Switzerland are quite close geographically to the state of Baden-Württemberg.

He will start unemployed with Sunday League experience (which is generous.)

Goals of the Save:

Win a trophy with a team from all three countries. (Germany, France, Switzerland)

Get the VFB Stuttgart job.

Win the Bundesliga with VFB Stuttgart.

Reach and win a European Final with VFB Stuttgart.

Get the Germany job.

Win a trophy with Germany.

Play enjoyable passing football.

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Hansa Rostock

On November 1st, Moritz got his first expedition into football management, leaving his side job as an assitant coach of a local U-9 team. He was offered a $3.2k per week contract for one year only. Moritz doesn't appreciate the lack of trust that they are showing him, and he is quite offended by the lack of length on the contract. However, things were looking dire at the local primary school's training ground, so he didn't have much room to complain.

The Squad

5 Year Plan

The tactic 

Moritz considers himself a connoisseur of possesion football. For the past few years he has been arduously studying Xavi and Iniesta pass compilations on Youtube with unnecessarily loud techno music in the background. He despises defensive football. He considers parking the bus a sin of football, and he believes it ruins the purpose of the game. He gives his attacking 7 (striker, wingers, center mids, and wingbacks) plenty of room to express themselves, while the back 3 (defensive mid, centerbacks) can sit back and spray a ball in if needs be. Lots of focus goes into his wingers, and he is hoping his two star players, LW Opoku (on loan from Hamburg) and RW Omladic can provide important attacking input, and carry the attack. 

Geh Rostock!

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Hansa Rostock

Moritz joins Rostock in a mid-table position, and the board expect to reach the 3. Liga playoffs. After joining on the first of November, here is how his first two months went.

Mannheim 2-1 Rostock

Goals: Opoku

Unfortunate late loss to Mannheim, players got complacent

Rostock 1-1 Zwickau

Goals: Opoku

Red: Butzen

We very much could have won this one by 3 if we didn't get a 20' red.

Kaiserslautern 0-2 Rostock 

Goals: Nartey, Opoku 

Two assists from our starman Nik Omladic got us the deserved win.

Rostock 0-0 Carl Zeiss Jena

Frustating loss to a defensive Jena team 

Unterhaching 1-2 Rostock

Goals: Opoku, Omladic

Easy win for the boys until Nartey (Mez) got a late own goal, then it was squeaky bum time.

Magdeburg 1-1 Rostock

Goals: Nartey

He would make up for it in the next game, with DLP Hildebrant spraying a beautiful 30+ yard pass that would be compilation worthy 

Rostock 4-1 Großaspach

Goals: Bulow, Nartey, Opoku, Straith

An all around fantastic performance leads us into our winter break, and Moritz has plenty of business to do.

Moritz Shopping List:

- Backup Roaming Playmaker

- Starting LB

- Starting Left footed CB

Geh Rostock!

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Hansa Rostock

Welcome to the end of season 1 update where we go through the Winter transfer window, and the remaining games in the league. Here is the shopping list that Moritz and his assistant manager made up last update:

Moritz Shopping List:

- Backup Roaming Playmaker

- Starting LB

- Starting Left footed CB

Let's see the potential targets at each postition.

LB's: 

Unfortunately the only LB that was even on Scherff's level, will be on loan until the end of the season.

Also unfortunate is that Grosch, who would be starting for the rest of the year, will only be joining next season, but he will probably start next year as well.

Two options here, but I went for Pasquarelli, he just looked a better player and will be on loan for the rest of the season.

Youth Intake Preview:

Breaking this down

GK- nothing listed

Fullbacks- few fullbacks 

CBs- nothing listed

Wingbacks- no new wingbacks

DMs- one great DM prospect could make this a good intake

Wingers- no wingers

CMs- nothing listed

AMs- no attacking mids

STs- no strikers

Now on to the games...

January

FC Bayern II 1-2 Rostock

Goals: Butzen, Konigs

Early goals sealed the game.

February

Rostock 1-0 Uerdingen

Goals: Opoku

Chemnitz 2-2 Rostock 

Goals: Nartey, Vollmann

Rostock 1-0 Braunschweig 

Goals: Konigs

Rostock 1-0 Meppen

Goals: Butzen

Duisburg 0-1 Rostock

Goals: Konigs

Beautiful football going 4-1-0 and 4 clean sheets. Moritz is happy.

March

Rostock 1-0 Wurzburg

Goals: Verhoek

Ingolstadt 0-2 Rostock

Goals: Nartey, Hildebrandt

Rostock: 1-0 Koln

Goals: Thellufsen

April

Halle 0-0 Rostock

Goals: 

Start of the weirdest run of form I have ever experienced playing FMT. Also, 0-0 draw 

Rostock 1-1 1860 Munich

Goals: Nartey

Munster 0-0 Rostock

Goals: 

Mannheim 1-1 Rostock

Goals: Opoku

Zwickau 1-0 Rostock

Goals:

May

Rostock 2-2 Kaiserslautern 

Goals: Nartey, Konigs

The only game in this set that I feel we didn't deserve to win, however a late team goal from Moritz's boys gave us 1 point.

Jena 1-0 Rostock

Goals:

Rostock 1-1 Unterhaching 

Goals: Atilgan

So, so, so, so frustrating in April and May. I believe that a late equalizer from 1860 is all to blame, as the morale went down the drain. My strikers forgot how to score, even though we had 3x as many shots than our opponents except Kaiserslautern. I just hope next season will bd better, as we will have to recruit plenty of backups.

Highest Goals: Opoku & Verhoek

Highest Assists: Omladic

Highest AR: Butzen

Highest POM: Butzen

Geh Rostock!