rycl77 Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Considering starting the challenge? Post in the challenge thread here San Marino Challenge The Goal - To win the World Cup with the tiny nation of San Marino The San Marino challenge entails taking international football minnows San Marino to the top with a World Cup victory. This seems impossible however San Marino has an ace up it's sleeve. San Marino Calcio is a club based in San Marino that plays in Italy's Serie D. Getting this club promoted to Serie A and investing heavily in youth facilities, junior coaching and youth recruitment should see higher quality Sammarinese players produced leading to a better national team. Goals Take San Marino Calcio to Serie A - DONE Win Serie A with San Marino Calcio - DONE Win the Champions League with San Marino Calcio - Get San Marino into the top 100 ranked National Teams - Qualify for a major tournament with the San Marino National Team - Win the European Championships with San Marino - Become the number 1 ranked national team in the world - Win the World Cup with San Marino - Win the Champions League with San Marino Calcio with a squad of purely Sammarinese players - Season Reviews Club 2016/17: Here National Team 2016/2017: Here Club 2017/18: Here National Team 2018: Here Club 2018/19: Here National Team 2019: Here Club 2019/20: Here National Team 2020: Here Club 2020/21: Here National Team 2021: Here Club 2021/22: Here Club 2022/23: Here Club 2023/24: Here Club 2024/25: Here Club 2025/26: Here Club 2026/27: Here National Team 2028 Update: Here Club 2027/28: Here Club 2028/29: Here National Team 2029: Here Club 2029/30: Here National Team 2030: Here Club 2030/31: Here National Team 2031: Here Club 2031/32: Here National Team 2032: Here Club 2032/33: Here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 San Marino Calcio have had a mixed history, however in 2014-2015 they were relegated from Serie C meaning the challenge now starts in Serie D. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreat10ne1 Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Good luck! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 Season 2016/17 - Serie D This is the system I will be looking to run in my first season. Trying to play a short passing game with an emphasis on possession however we don't have the best players for it right now so I've tweaked it a bit to try and give us better results. We're about to embark on a bumper pre-season to get some money into the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Good luck! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 Season 2016/17 - Serie D December 31st Update League Table Currently top of the table as we hit the midpoint of the season. We've been in absolutely cracking form but just can't seem to shake Vis Pesaro which is especially worrying because only the top team gets promotion, play-offs is just a cash prize (or so I'm told). Luckily for us we've already beaten them once this season handing them their only defeat of the season. Serie D Results The results in the league all in all have been good. We're playing good football and passing teams off the park. Our only loss was to Pineto in a game we had 3 clear cut chances to their 0 and they robbed us off a set-piece. Nonetheless if we can keep this up, particularly the brick wall defense I think we will be good for the title. Serie D Cup Results The board said they didn't care about this competition and to be honest neither did I, went with my best team however and got dumped out in extra-time to our league rivals Vis Pesaro. Oh well. Transfers Now this is where I maybe messed up a bit. Serie D has a set of particularly stupid rules which says you have to have 4 players under 20, 3 players under 19 and 1 player under 18 within the starting line-up. I didn't realise this until the window was closed and it meant I'd signed mostly oldies and couldn't fit them all into a team. Luckily we signed two loanees from Cesena who are young (Dhamo is under 18 which is a massive help) but it still means at times I'm fielding some awful Sanmmarinese players. Will be looking to maybe rectify in the January transfer window with the acquistion of a few youngsters. Key Players Umberto was already at the club when I joined. He's been a fantastic right-back for us this season, extremely solid and contributed well to a defense that's conceded 9 goals in 16 games. Mattia is my third best ability striker however won himself a starting spot when injuries to starters meant he came in. 8 goals in 13 games has been massive for us and he's been the deciding factor in a few games. Misc Our possession football style has taken effect and sees us league the league in average possession per game. Notes I do not manage the San Marino national side yet, not sure when I will take them over as the first few years can be extremely boring and pointless as the team just has no hope, if their manager gets sacked I'll apply but I won't force resign him for now. Next update will probably be youth intake although I'm not expecting much, thanks for reading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 Currently playing a game on Mars Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 MASSIVE win against our tital rivals Vis Pesaro who have been chasing us the whole season. Opens up a 5 point gap and with neither team losing many games this could well be the difference at the end of the year. We actually played pretty poorly and they more CCC's but for once we had the luck and managed to snatch and grab a 2-0 win. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 23, 2016 Author Share Posted November 23, 2016 Season 2016/17 - Serie D Youth Intake All in all a pretty decent youth intake considering we're in Serie D. The only problem is all of our Sammarinese youngsters have terrible personalities and poor determination. Nonetheless they should all be able to contribute to the national side in the coming years I would guess. Gonna try and work on them to improve their personalities etc with tutoring. Andrea Michelotti Looks pretty promising with good marking, tackling, positioning and pace. Needs to work on his heading and I will try to improve the determination but this guy will definitely be a feature for the national side if I can develop him decently. Andrea Canti I don't really know what to do with Canti. He's good in random areas. Exceptional in the air and a good first touch, also good at dribbling. With poor determination and average physicals I don't really hold a lot of hope for him to be honest and I doubt he usurps Vitaoli, the national teams starting striker unless he improves a lot. Weird one. Mirko Bugli Not as much potential as the other two in terms of stars but looks like a decent player. Passing and dribbling need work but he has a balanced personality at least and there is definitely something to work with here. I think he can definitely star for the national side in the future. Going to re-train him as a left-back as he's got good marking, tackling etc <><><><><><> All in all a pretty decent one. The Italian prospects are useless to me as they aren't eligible for San Marino. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ropotas Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 17 hours ago, rycl77 said: Season 2016/17 - Serie D Youth Intake All in all a pretty decent youth intake considering we're in Serie D. The only problem is all of our Sammarinese youngsters have terrible personalities and poor determination. Nonetheless they should all be able to contribute to the national side in the coming years I would guess. Gonna try and work on them to improve their personalities etc with tutoring. Andrea Michelotti Looks pretty promising with good marking, tackling, positioning and pace. Needs to work on his heading and I will try to improve the determination but this guy will definitely be a feature for the national side if I can develop him decently. Andrea Canti I don't really know what to do with Canti. He's good in random areas. Exceptional in the air and a good first touch, also good at dribbling. With poor determination and average physicals I don't really hold a lot of hope for him to be honest and I doubt he usurps Vitaoli, the national teams starting striker unless he improves a lot. Weird one. Mirko Bugli Not as much potential as the other two in terms of stars but looks like a decent player. Passing and dribbling need work but he has a balanced personality at least and there is definitely something to work with here. I think he can definitely star for the national side in the future. Going to re-train him as a left-back as he's got good marking, tackling etc <><><><><><> All in all a pretty decent one. The Italian prospects are useless to me as they aren't eligible for San Marino. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ropotas Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 Have fun my friend i begin something like this with Vaduz and Liechtenstein..For me take control national team you can make some good results..I will watch you're sorry..;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 Season 2016/17 - Serie D Season In Review - Serie D Champions League Table In the end we kind of walked it, Vis Pesaro finally started slipping up and we pulled away, even when we did go through a small tough patch they were unable to capitalise. I was expected to win this division so it's not surprising but satisfying. Results Team of the Season Surprisingly our left back was actually voted 2nd best player even though at times I was dropping him for a youngster to abide by the Serie D Youth regulations. De Lucia was by far most deserving of the award however. Transfers In January I added Poletti, a club legend from previous years as our back up left winger. I loaned two more Cesena youngsters to help us with the stupid Serie D youth rules which stipulate you need at least 4 under 20's playing etc and lastly Zandrini who was a first choice keeper, same goalkeeping ability as our other number 1 Dini but Zandrini was more comfortable as a sweeper keeper and a better passer. Finances Finance wise we are struggling really bad, even though I was 2k under the wage budget. Looks like I need to have a big pre-season or we're screwed lol. Bit worrying. Misc That's all for this update, Serie C awaits us next season! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Congrats on the swift promotion back to Serie C - well done! Onwards to world domination now I suppose? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 6 hours ago, the--dud said: Congrats on the swift promotion back to Serie C - well done! Onwards to world domination now I suppose? That's the plan but might take a little while Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 25, 2016 Author Share Posted November 25, 2016 Woohoo. Didn't expect this with how bad our finances are but I guess they've done the math and it makes sense? Also the board are expecting me to win the league again this season? Not sure if they're still referring to Serie D or not lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C Season Expectations The board initially wanted me to attempt to avoid relegation but I told them I would avoid it for a bit of extra wage budget. To be honest I'd probably quit if I got relegated back to the depths of Serie D, I hated it there Budgets As I always do in these lower tiers I set it all into wage budget and focused on getting free agents and free agents only. I feel that you can get similar players to those transfer listed for free if you look hard enough and that spending on transfers really isn't neccessary. Might be completely wrong but it's worked before. This budget is a significant upgrade from last season, pretty much doubled it so we were able to go after some decent players. Transfers A loooooot of activity. Essentially most of the players from the side last season were out of contract and barely any of them were good enough for Serie C and even if they were the chances are I could sign a better free agent. So I let them all go. This meant we had a squad of about 9 when all the loanees we took from Cesena returned so I had to go out and pack the squad out with a lot of new players. You'll see I raided parent club Cesena again, this time for 5 players which is an absolutely massive help. Not much to note on any of the players, some of you might recognise Dale Jennings, the guy from a few years ago who went from Tranmere to Bayern, well his career didn't really take off and he's ended up with the mighty San Marino. Sadly he's not actually that good and is a backup winger for us. Key Signings Two pretty good players for Serie C. Stendardo has some amazing stats in heading, tackling and marking and despite his age his physicals aren't atrocious. El Hilali was released by AC Milan at the end of the season so I snapped him up. He's a good player for this level with the potential to improve so I was more than happy to snap him up. Early season update to come shortly as I've played a few games this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C August/September Results So a mixed bag. We got eliminated from the Serie C Cup very early. We lost 2-0 to Fano in a game we probably should have won. Fano then lso beat Tuttocuolo the other team in our group straight after meaning it was impossible for us to qualify despite winning our last game 3-1. Then we started the league with three 2-0 defeats in a row. After that I was expecting an awful season and felt we would be waiting a while for us to be stick together a run of results however we then hit a bit of form. A great win vs Lumezzane boosted our morale and then we went on 4 match unbeaten run with a few good performances. You can see from the table the crazy amount of teams that get into the play-offs and I don't think it's too far fetched that we could make it in. Although I don't think the Serie C play-offs is an opportunity for promotion which is a bit weird? If that is the case then I guess we'll have to settle for another season in Serie C as Parma somehow didn't get promoted last season and are still around in our division. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C October Results What a month!!! After a shocking 3 losses in a row to start the season we have really hit form now. I've pretty much settled on my best 11 and it's clearly paying off. We've scored bucketloads of goals this month and won all but one game. We now have Parma in our sights although it'll be tough to overhaul them. Also I googled the Serie C Play-offs to clarify the situation, one team is promoted from the playoffs across the three groups. So we would need to beat the playoff winners from Group A and C should we win the play-offs in our division. Forza Titani If pics are too small, click to enlarge to a nice size. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandersson Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 good luck Titani! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedese Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Superb start to Serie C, and well done on the promotion + professionalism Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 1 hour ago, kandersson said: good luck Titani! Kandersson no way! I never realised you were on this forum, your San Marino exploits on what I wanna say was FM12??? on fmbase inspired me to start in 2012 and ever since then I've usually ended up doing the San Marino Challenge every year from FM12 onwards. Absolutely love you man and the way you posted your updates for your FM12 save is still my favourite save of all time to follow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 41 minutes ago, Jupjamie said: Superb start to Serie C, and well done on the promotion + professionalism Thanks mate! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C November Results After a great September we had a pretty disappointing November. We just didn't create enough chances. 3 goals the entire month is pretty appauling. We would have been winless but for an extremely late winner in our last game. Not very good but we're still in the play-ofs, Parma maybe just too far ahead though! Sammarinese Prospects Update The image on the left is Canti on youth intake day, the one on the right is him now roughly 6 months later. Other than him gaining a tan you'll notice his determination (a key stat in deciding whether a player reaches their potential) has flown up a massive 5 points from tutoring which is fantastic. He's already been capped twice by San Marino and is for sure going to be their main man if he can keep improving at this rate. I'll keep him with us at the club for the next one or two years before loaning him out. Sadly I can't see him ever making the grade here at the club but he's better than the San Marino League! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 San Marino National Team - 2016/2017 Update I don't currently manage the national team. I will obviously in future but right now I'm focusing on the club as managing the national team through defeat after defeat is pretty boring haha. They had an extremely rough 2016, losing every single game without even scoring a goal. A 2-0 loss to Montenegro probably their best result. 2017 saw two goals scored both from San Marino legends Vitaoli and Stefanelli both in 3-1 losses. Much better than 2016, a 1-0 friendly defeat to Georgia maybe their best result. These less than stellar two years have obviously not done much for their ranking as they currently sit in..... Ranking 206th, we've got a job on our hands. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C December Results A month to forget.... We just can't create anything atm it's terrible. Thinking of changing tactic up a bit but not sure where exactly. Maybe shifting from a 4-3-3 with a DM to a 4-2-3-1 wide. Our only goal was a free-kick too. One of those months where you swear the game hates you and you want to punch your laptop screen in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Well it looks like our promising 17 year old Sammarinese target man is being bought off of us already for 100k. Don't think this will be good for his career as I've focused a lot on developing him but best of luck to him I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C January Results Only a few games this month but we struggled again, I've changed to a 4-2-3-1 wide. Youth Intake Update Canti is gone, a promising player but we do need the money to be fair. The board took the decision out of my hands. On a different note, Michelotti's determination has more than double in just under a year and his personality is now fairly professional Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C February Results Slightly better, desperately need to STOP giving away penalties and goals from set-pieces but at least we picked up some points this month. Need a strong finish now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C Youth Intake Not as impressive as last year. At least our best product is Sammarinese but I'm only really thinking two of these guys will achieve a successful career for the National Team. Colombini the 4.5* product also has a fairly professional personality which is pretty cool as last year the personalities were terrible. Colombini Quite like the look of this guy, already got very good passing and first touch with a fairly professional personality. Will get to work on his determination immediately with some tutoring but this guy looks so promising! Capicchioni This guy also looks pretty good but again needs work on the determination. For sure we have something to work with here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C March Results Struggling so much, 5 points outside of the playouts now. Jesus. Went to back to my old formation but didn't really get much from it. We can't even beat 10 men at the minute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 This sums the season up to be honest, both strikers on over 10 hour goalless streaks. Not good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Sums it up at the minute, concede a last minute penalty in a game we deserved to win, save the penalty but concede the rebound anyway. Ffs 7 Penalties conceded this season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kandersson Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 13 hours ago, rycl77 said: Kandersson no way! I never realised you were on this forum, your San Marino exploits on what I wanna say was FM12??? on fmbase inspired me to start in 2012 and ever since then I've usually ended up doing the San Marino Challenge every year from FM12 onwards. Absolutely love you man and the way you posted your updates for your FM12 save is still my favourite save of all time to follow. thanks for the kind words mate, it's always nice to see fellow Titani managers going deep with the challenge! Make San Marino great again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C April/May Results Finally, some good results! After the Mantova game where we got absolutely battered I decided to completely throw out our old tactic and move back to a formation I used to good success on FM14. We deserved to win the Parma game but conceded a stupid last min penalty and then went on a decent run to end the season. And as you'll see in the league table, crept into the play-offs! Frustrating season to say the least but it's not finished yet. With this formation we actually look capable of beating many teams so who knows how well we'll go. Parma annoyingly haven't gotten promoted so I have to fight them again next year. The play-offs start here! How far we will go nobody knows. And here is the formation we'll be rocking for the play-offs. Our wingers were diabolical and neither of our strikers was able to score when playing up front on his own so I decided to ditch the wingers, focus on playing through the middle and it's worked for the most part. Our attacking midfielder Calvo has been a beast so far too which is a bonus because he wasn't getting used in the old formation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 God damn it. Went 1-0 down to a free-kick. Equalised. Gave away our trademark penalty and went down 2-1. Had to chase the game and conceded the third when honestly we were the better side. Well that's the end of the season for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2017/18 - Serie C Season In Review - Good Start, Disastrous End League Table Just about made the play-offs. Expectations were to avoid relegation and we did it relatively easily. Results Four wins from December 12th onwards. Simply shocking. An absolute collapse. Forced us into a change of systems towards the end of the year. We had such a good start too, not sure what happened. I think our tactic has just been found out by the AI. Team Of The Season De Lucia was named player of the year for the second year running. Impressive again so he'll be kepy on. Torelli had another good year also. From that Team of the Year I'd say that Zandrini, Stendardo, Pompei, Romitit, Carcinelli, Pagliarini and Buso will all be gone for various different reasons. Time for us to upgrade the squad if we can. Transfers Same as last season with a ton of signings made to try and get our squad to a level in which it can survive in Serie C. One to note was the sale of Canti for 100k. A Sammarinese prospect who came through our youth intake was sold by the board for 100k. Can't say I blame them with the state of our finances. This is how Canti looks, already a regular for the National Team. Finances Our finances are bit of a state. I'll do our usual bumper pre-season against big teams to bring in cash and the payment from the league should leave us only about 100k in the hole which isn't bad considering we were about 800k in the red at times this season. Not sure if the board want to cut my wage budget yet or not but I've stuck to it and not gone over. Formation This formation was implemented for our last few games to decent success so I'll be sticking with it into the next season, hopefully with better strikers and a more solid defence it can be a success. Misc We absolutely need to not concede as many penalties next season. This literally killed us at times and we even conceded one in the play-offs. Seems a bit of a fluky stat so if that goes back to average next season we could gain a few more points. On to 2018-2019. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 26, 2016 Author Share Posted November 26, 2016 Season 2018/19 - Serie C Season Expectations Being expected to reach the play-offs may sound like a lot but when you realise you only need to finish 10th to get in then it's not really a massive challenge. Should be achievable again. The real challenge will be actually winning games in the play-offs. Budgets Our finances have actually decreased from last year a little where we had 19k wage budget but it's not really an issue as I was under the budget last year anyway. Transfers We've got our typical batch of Cesena's finest in for the season with only a handful of free transfers to date. I shipped out a bunch of underachievers from last season. Key Signings Solid CB for this level, should help us shore up our porous defense. Other than him there isn't really much to shout about so far, I'm still hunting for players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 Season 2018/19 - Serie C August/September Results Pretty poor start to be honest. Our defense still feels suspect and I'm still looking for a CB to bring in. We thumped Rimini 6-0 away but sunce then we've just been inconsistent and conceding stupid goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 Season 2018/19 - Serie C October/November Results Usually try to post these in one month updates other than when I combine August and September because there's like 2 games in August but I got so wrapped up in the game I forgot to screenshot after October so I've grouped them together. Anyway, as you can see we actually had a pretty good run. Some good results in there with one or two poor ones. The victory over Parma stands out and the 1-1 draw with Alto Adige stings as we literally killed them and ended up drawing. Nonetheless we're sat in 5th, firmly in the playoffs but already a cool 11 points behind Parma. I found a CB to replace the terrible Romeo and he's helped us keep a few more clean sheets but the defense still isn't perfect. Thinking I might look for a new keeper. As you can see from this screenshot, we absolutely dominate possessionm we're 5% clear of the next team however we don't create enough chances with it. I'm focusing on tweaking my tactic to try and produce more CCC's without success for now but there's defo an improvement from last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 I'm in demand, sadly for them they will need to wait until I've won the world cup with San Marino Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledKopite Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Really great start to the thread! Hope you can make it through the play-offs this season! How much do you tend to make during pre-season doing friendlies? I'm playing in the Romanian 2nd division bleeding cash (though nothing like 400k in the red!) and was wondering if I could pull off something similar. Looking forward to seeing you progress up the leagues! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 29 minutes ago, ExiledKopite said: Really great start to the thread! Hope you can make it through the play-offs this season! How much do you tend to make during pre-season doing friendlies? I'm playing in the Romanian 2nd division bleeding cash (though nothing like 400k in the red!) and was wondering if I could pull off something similar. Looking forward to seeing you progress up the leagues! Thanks for reading mate I make about 100k roughly doing friendlies although that's because I play all the big teams in Italy (Milan, Napoli, Inter) which brings in about 10k per friendly if not more. Not sure they will be an option for you though as I'm pretty sure they only play me because I'm in Italy? Always worth having a look at who you can ask for a friendly as it can really boost your funds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 Season 2018/19 - Serie C December Results Largely positive month, we got dumped out of the Serie C Cup which I don't really care about as the cash prizes aren't that great and lost just 1 of 5 games in the league. This sees us into third place although we trail Modena and Parma by a large amount. National team yearly update to come next, they've actually done pretty well haha. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 San Marino National Team - 2018 Update After scoring 2 goals in 2 years San Marino banged in two in their first game. Albeit it was against Gibraltar, an equally terrible team and they lost 4-2 but you can't have it all right? The introduction of the European Nations League is going to be the nations best friend over the coming years as it means they can consistently play against teams on their level. Games against the likes of Luxembourg and Kazakhstan regularly means a high chance of better results. Three games where they didn't lose, an impressive draw vs Malta, a win vs Luxembourg and a draw with Kazakhstan meant they had their best year in history. You can already see Andrea Canti getting in amongst the goals at aged 18, fresh from our academy. These results meant they moved up four places from last year, not too bad. I still don't manage them and don't intend to until I reach Serie B with the club. Best Players 10 caps at the age of 18 and already 3 goals, Canti looks a dead cert to beat Andy Selva's legendary 8 goal all time goalscoring record for the country. Although Selva did it in the days before the Nations League. Anyone who's attempted the challenge before is familiar with Matteo Vitaoli, in past versions he actually played for the club however nowadays he plays his trade away from San Marino. Still easily one of their better players he has been leading the line for them in recent games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 Just signed this big guy on a freebie. Doesn't massively fit our style of play but he's absolutely quality. Worth 700k too so worst comes to worst I'll flog him at the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jar11 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Awesome start, how did you go about getting san marino into the game (the club in serie d that is)? Where did you get the custom database? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 4 minutes ago, jar11 said: Awesome start, how did you go about getting san marino into the game (the club in serie d that is)? Where did you get the custom database? I used this one: http://www.fmscout.com/a-italy-serie-d-fm17.html Also to note, to be able to manage the national team you need to click custom on database size and load all players of nationality for San Marino. Good luck if you decide to start, maybe I could make a challenge thread in the challenge section Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jar11 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 7 minutes ago, rycl77 said: I used this one: http://www.fmscout.com/a-italy-serie-d-fm17.html Also to note, to be able to manage the national team you need to click custom on database size and load all players of nationality for San Marino. Good luck if you decide to start, maybe I could make a challenge thread in the challenge section Awesome, thanks for the info! And quick reply! Best of luck! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GloryFan2002 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 @rycl77 Show us your best eleven Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rycl77 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 7 minutes ago, GloryFan2002 said: @rycl77 Show us your best eleven Still uses my old formation that I used in Serie D for now. Pompei, Dhamo, Carncinelli were all loaned from Cesena. De Lucia who's been our player of the season both seasons actually starts the game at the club which is a bonus as he's still balling in Serie C. EDIT - Just considered that you might have been on about my starting XI atm. Here it is. Also for anyone considering starting up the challenge I made a challenge thread so we can all see how each other are doing etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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