A Life of International Management - Bettering Rudi Gutendorf

[Makoto Nakamura]

Rudolf "Rudi" Gutendorf (born 30 August 1926 in Koblenz) is a German football manager, renowned for managing the highest number of national teams – to date a total of 18 teams.

The main aim of this save is to bring back into Football Manager, win as many International Competitions a I can and to be better and manage more nations than Rudi Gutendorf did.

So here I embark on my journey, with Saudi Arabia U19's, I mean, why not?

[cerud]

Glad to see you back! That is an impressive stadium!

[rlipscombe]

An interesting challenge and a different one to club challenges. will look forward to this. nice stadium too...

[b101]

welcome back

[deltablue]

Typical seeing you with a youth team

[Makoto Nakamura]

Glad to see you back! That is an impressive stadium!

An interesting challenge and a different one to club challenges. will look forward to this. nice stadium too...

welcome back

Typical seeing you with a youth team

Thanks guys That stadium is King Fahd International Stadium, attendances are poor being under 19's and there are no Saudi players under the age of 20 so the squad is just grey players, we even lost to San Marino!

[pricey687]

GL in this It willbe interesting to see just how many countries you can do well with.

[Makoto Nakamura]

GL in this It willbe interesting to see just how many countries you can do well with.

Thanks Pricey

The first year of management

And my first piece of silverware! With us winning the AFC U-19 championship I think we qualify for the U20 World Cup in 2013 which I think is where I'll resign and try to go for a senior team, it's no fun having a team with no players!

[cerud]

Congrats on the first of many trophies

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well we weren't in the U-20 World Cup so back to the job center I go!

[rlipscombe]

still it's a trophy in the bank.....

[Nobby_McDonald]

I bet you win more cups than leagues.

[Makoto Nakamura]

A proper team! Now I did get a crash dump so I played 1 less game as a Saudi Arabia manager but this came up and I've taken it!

[cerud]

Kyrgyzstan! This is definitely taking you around the world.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Kyrgyzstan! This is definitely taking you around the world.

And this part of Kyrgyzstan seems colourful

[Makoto Nakamura]

2013

Key Player:

We've only played friendlies this year, that will change now as with 2014 brings us into the AFC Cup Qualifiers which is a competition I would like to see my self winning/

[pricey687]

why did it say you took over from you :confused:

[DazRTaylor]

Someone else who reads Four Four Two.

Interesting career choice.

[Makoto Nakamura]

why did it say you took over from you :confused:

Because I applied for every job for 2 years got none and crash dumped so I decided this way would be easier.

[pricey687]

ahh sorry it was me being thick I forgot about being able to do that :o my bad

[rlipscombe]

this ground ain't as hot!! proper national team though - good luck in the qualifiers...

[gogogo golem]

Good luck. I just remembered this guy from Four Four Two as well (well after reading DazRTaylor's post, it hadn't clicked).

[JackJCFC]

Stunning stadium, good luck

[Makoto Nakamura]

this ground ain't as hot!! proper national team though - good luck in the qualifiers...

Thanks Rlipscombe, will be good seeing how I fare against proper opposition

Good luck. I just remembered this guy from Four Four Two as well (well after reading DazRTaylor's post, it hadn't clicked).

Thanks gogogo, I've never actually read Four Four Two :S, it was actually a massive coincidence as I've known about him and what he's done for months, it's only now that I decided to do a career from it.

Stunning stadium, good luck

Thanks Jack

[Makoto Nakamura]

2014

We have won a proper, senior, international competition! We were very poor in the following friendlies and we have the Asian Cup to contend with in January which we will do very well if we just get out of the groups!

[FMtillidie]

Well done so far mate .

[Makoto Nakamura]

Resignation

We didn't play awfully, it's just that the other countries has much better players, I've hit a birck wall with Kyrgyzstan so I decided to call an end to my time with them.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Welcome to Norway!

[deltablue]

I first heard of him (I think) from reading 'Has anybody got a whistle' years ago.

[Makoto Nakamura]

3 months later...

My big break has come! I join Ghana just after their success at the WAFU Cup and a couple of months before they start qualifiers for the African Cup Of Nations.

[cerud]

Ghana should definitely boost your reputation!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2015

I think it's fair to say that I'm not afraid of free-flowing goals and in every game bar the England game we've played very well! almost every players in the squad scored this year which is even better, I think that 2016 is the emptiest year in terms of fixtures with just friendlies and competition qualifiers.

[rlipscombe]

Well racking up the international roles now! good to see another trophy in the cabinet. understand you leaving for Norway U19s but Ghana is a big break. good luck.

[Makoto Nakamura]

I decided to take control of the Under 23 team for the Olympics, we only went and won it! We had some amazing fightbacks in the games against France & Argentina.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2016

Again a great year for me (barring the 5-0 loss to Spain) as I bring home an Olympic medal as well as the WAFU Cup, we've qualified for the Cup of Nations and have World Cup Qualifiers to contend, I think I'll stay until the World Cup and then resign after that as I'll have gained a good reputation.

[cerud]

Congrats on Olympic Gold!

[deltablue]

Well done! Looked tough.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2017 - The year of domination

25 International games...wow, just wow, what an amazing year to be from Ghana, Cup of Nations - WON, WAFU Cup - WON, Confederations Cup - WON I will only be in charge of Ghana for the next 6-7 months, so let's try to assault the World Cup!

[Nobby_McDonald]

A proper team!

A proper team? You even lost to Borat's boys!

Doing well with Ghana though.

[rlipscombe]

awesome work mate....

[gogogo golem]

Great work.

[Makoto Nakamura]

A proper team? You even lost to Borat's boys!

Doing well with Ghana though.

They were just too good for ol' Kyrgyzstan

awesome work mate....

Great work.

Thanks guys

[Makoto Nakamura]

A bit of an anti-climax to my time with Ghana..

[cerud]

A tough group. Looks like no one really jumped ahead.

[deltablue]

Bit of a limp assault.

[Makoto Nakamura]

And there we have it, we lost the WAFU Cup and we couldn't make it past the Groups of the World Cup, I end on a low, but I thought it was time to end my time at Ghana.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Wow, help?!? Who do I choose?

[deltablue]

I had a lot of fun at Uruguay once, so that or Belgium.

[EvilDave]

Belgium, Mexico or Korea for me - the others all seem a little too big for this stage in your career. Shame about the World Cup exit with Ghana, good little run you had the previous year!

[rlipscombe]

that's a seriously tough choice there!1 Agree about the top jobs being slightly unrealisitc maybe? However how do you turn down Brazil. i guess it's a case of if you take a top job and fail, will the others still want you? For me maybe Belgium or Mexico