The Hexagon Challenge

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The Hexagon Challenge

The Hexagon Challenge, probably the hardest challenge there is on Football Manager. So guess what, I’m going to make it harder. When I’ve done journeyman saves before, moving from club to club in quick succession usually kills the save for me. So my intention is to stay with clubs for extended periods of time. So how can I fit that in with the Hexagon? One Simple rule: I have to win each Champions League from a nation that has never had a Champion. 

The likelihood is, I’ll never finish this, but I’m going to back myself and see how many other trophies we can win on the way. 

Rules:

Win each Champions League from a nation without a Champion

Start Unemployed with No Coaching Badges

Bring Through at least 1 Youth Academy Player per season

I’ll be starting in North America, purely because DaveTheEditor’s megapack has yet to reach North America yet. With Mexico and the USA already having several champions, I don’t want to risk a Canadian team winning the Champions League before I arrive. Below are the nations I am unable to go to due to them already winning a title.

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First job interview, rejection. Bottom of the table York United have rejected me. 

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Club 1: Vancouver FC

After two in game seasons, the Vancouver FC manager left at the end of his contract, and the club have took a punt and appointed me. Season 1, they finished rock bottom with ONE point. Last season though was a massive improvement and the club finished 5th, 3 places above York United. 

Pretty uninspiring vision for the club, but that means 0 pressure on me from the board. In addition we have a pretty healthy bank balance, which can't be complained at.

Team

Key Player

Lars Dendoncker - brother to Villa's Leo. A Defensive midfielder at heart but will be used for us in the BPD role, hopefully with his dictates tempo trait he'll be able to get us going out the back.

Edited May 7, 2023 by jcricky

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Pre-Season

1000/1 - the bookies obviously don't fancy us.

Big window for us, and even with these signings, we're still predicted bottom. Just to let you know, there's a wage cap of £11,750 and a limit of 7 foreign players. Tried to primarily bring in players who I knew would impact the squad quickly, as well as some plans for the future. Ex-Rangers man Fraser Aird and Roque Santa Cruz are probably the biggest names. Badru and Lurling are real signings for the future, brought in from amateur sides. Then, Danny Trejo came up in a scout report and I had to sign him for the 10 position. What a player he is for this level.

Friendlies

A long but solid pre-season.

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Season 1: Quarter Season Update

What a start to the season. Valour FC we conceded late and I was brought down to earth. Then two goals in 3 minutes gave us the 3 points. 5 clean sheets in 7 games is impressive, especially when you consider our first choice GK is injured. New signing Emil Gazdov has been brilliant so far.

Top of the league with 19 points and the only unbeaten side so far. We did get this email after our third game. I'm not too bothered, I'll take the relatively miniscule fine.

Shaan is our top scorer but arguably one of our worst performers, very weird! Dendoncker has been a machine and Bitar has been my particular highlight so far!

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Season 1: Mid-Season Update

After a great stat we've become slightly inconsistent. 3 wins, 3 draws, 1 loss in our previous 7. Not only that but the goals have really dried up.

We still find ourselves top of the league, 6 points ahead of Valour. A couple of injuries sees us really fall away which is massively disappointing but expected.

A new contract already which I'm buzzing with. A really poor youth intake though which is not what we need.

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Season 1: 7 Games to Go

Inconsistency continues. We're through to the Quarters of the Canadian Championship against Vancouver.

Still top by 6 points.

Simon Colyn came in from PSV on a free transfer. He plays the same position as Trejo but I couldn't pass up on a young Canadian of this quality.

 

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End of Season 1: Disappointment

Remained top of the league, this time by 12 points. We suffered a couple of heavy defeats in the build up when the season was already done. Then, a managerial mistake, I thought the semi was a single leg, so after going 2-0 down I went over the top attacking and ended up losing 4-0. Condeming us to a loss v Pacific FC.

Pacific FC ended up winning the league from 4th position, beating Valour 1-0 in the final.

Nice to see Gazdov and Dendoncker finish the season with some individual awards. A big off-season needed now. Striker is top of the list, along with a couple of wingers.