Coxie84 Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 Intro Posted on 1 Jun 2023 by CoxieFM WELCOME I’ve never tried ‘A Youth Only Challenge‘….. and it will be interesting and most definitely a difference way to how I have played the game previously. However, I do play similar way-ish as that I either buy, loan or raid the freebie market for younger players but to solely reply on youth intakes, well that’s a different kettle of fish, lol. I am also playing another challenge on FM23 at the moment called the ‘SAF Challenge‘ which I have just finished writing up season two and continued over on discord instead of blogged. Now back to this new series and I am sure you’ve all heard of ‘A Youth Only Challenge‘. But if not then, the rules are below, so you can see how I am going to approach this challenge on FM23… A YOUTH ONLY CHALLENGE RULES No transfers or loans into the club are allowed, however I can sell or loan players out. If I am sacked, it’s series over…Simple as that. (Let’s hope its not a one season wonder). No save game editors are allowed. I can sign backroom staff. AIM Is to win your chosen countries’ top division and win the Champions League in your continent with a previously unplayable club using only your academy as a way of acquiring new players – meaning No Transfers of any kind. No buying back former players, even on a free, and no loans not even as part of a deal to sell your player. However, I have a slight change to the normal AIM/RULE for this challenge, as that I will be picking the club myself and thanks to a video done over on twitter, on The Managers Seat page by my favourite Brummie Llama aka FM LLaMa, I saw the club for me… (This is the video, click here)… Also, I am allowed to keep any players that start under contract and have the option to extend their contracts as often as I wish and any players that are on loan at the club at the start of the challenge, can be used but I cannot extend their loans beyond the first season. Let’s hope all the best players at the club ain’t on loan then… Off to Buenos Aires, Argentina… COXIEFM SIGNS For Chacarita Juniors, a Primera Nacional football in the second tier of Argentinean football… Media predication is a 22nd in the season coming. Unfortunately the club as no history as such, so I am hoping to change that in season’s to come. But, the board and fans want the same thing…Finish above our fierce rivals Atlanta!! The kits were done by FM Slovakia, however their is no third kit available off the website, so if anyone would like to do a funky design for this then drop me a DM, would be much appreciated. The home and away kits look awesome, don’t you think. THE SQUAD’S MAIN I have about 18 players in the main squad and five of them are on loan. On initial thoughts of the squad, who are by the way predicted to finish in 22nd place in the league this season looks decent and lucky for me the four players with five star potential are my players not loanees. The loanees do look strong but I think I will have to pop into the reserves or maybe into the u20s to deepen the first team in certain positions like GK, D(C) & M(C). I haven’t decided what formation I will be using yet for this challenge, which could be key if I am going to stay in Argentina. RESERVES Not bad to be honest, only four players in on loan and don’t look the greatest which I am happy with because we have better players in the reserves. A few four and half and five star potential which again is a bonus with some of them likely to move into the first team squad following this update and especially during preseason so I can see what they are like. U20s I think, I am in luck again…Mostly this squad are on £5 p/w and there is a lot of potential in this U20s squad, which may improve my squad in years to come. Need to tie some of their contracts and maybe add a release clause or two in them. No, loanees in this squad which is a bonus. Just need to bring in the right coaches to help with. I can see two players already being promoted into the reserves and maybe feature in the league too. I will be highlighting few players in the preseason ’22 blog which will feature in the coming days after this has been released… CLUB INFORMATION & HISTORY NAME: Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors BASED: Club HQ in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The squad currently plays in Primera Nacional, which is in the second division of the Argentine football league pyramid. NICKNAME: Funebreros (“Undertakers“) because a former ground was near the La Chacarita Cemetery. The red color in its jersey (apart from black and white) is a reference to its anarchist origins. FOUNDED: 1906 HISTORY: The club was founded in 1906, in an anarchist Library on the boundary between the Villa Crespo and Chacarita neighborhoods. After a short period of institutional crisis, the club was re-opened in 1919. The football squad promoted to Primera División in 1924, and continued playing at the top level after football became professional in 1931. In 1940 Chacarita was relegated to the second division, but it lasted only one season. The team then moved to the General San Martín Partido in Greater Buenos Aires, next to the autonomous city of Buenos Aires. In 1956 Chacarita was relegated to the second division again, and won that championship the following year returning to Primera División. After 10 consecutive years at the top level, Chacarita won its only first division title, the 1969 Metropolitano championship. In the following years the team performed badly and was relegated all the way down to the 3rd division in 1980. In 1984 Chacarita came back to the first division, but because of Hooliganism by some of its fans, the club was punished with a suspension for a month and a loss of 10 points; having missing those points, Chacarita could not avoid a new relegation to the second division. After a long tenure in lower divisions (including the Primera C), Chacarita came back to the top division in 1999, where the team remained until 2004 Torneo Clausura, when it was relegated to the Primera B Nacional. In the 2008–09 season the club finished 2nd, after a 1–0 victory against Platense, with a goal scored in the last seconds of the match. This victory secured Chacarita a return to Primera División after five years of being relegated. At the end of 2011–12 season, Chacarita finished 20th and therefore the Funebreros had to play two matches against Nueva Chicago (winner of Primera B Metropolitana’s Torneo Reducido) to avoid being relegated to the lower division. Nueva Chicago won the series (1–0 and 1–1) and Chacarita was subsequently relegated. FINAL WORDS Also, I am 50/50 about this thumbnail. I like it, but I feel someone could do it justice, if anyone wants too… In the meantime, please feel free to leave a comment with any feedback and questions and don’t forget to check out all the other blogs on here and you can follow me on Twitter here. See you next time and thank you for reading… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxie84 Posted June 4, 2023 Author Share Posted June 4, 2023 (FM23) A Youth Only Challenge: Chacarita Juniors – Preseason ’22 Posted on 4 Jun 2023 by CoxieFM ‘A Youth Only Challenge‘ is all about focusing on your club’s youth development, with an emphasis on producing homegrown talents. Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Home of Chacarita Juniors a storied football club infamous for having never won Primera División in their history. Can they finally defy all odds by using youth only and go on to win the top división and then the Champions League… Last episode: (FM23) A Youth Only Challenge: Chacarita Juniors – Intro PRESEASON ’22 Hola mis amigos Y bienvenido a mi blog… So, we start this series off in January 22 and it’s not a bad start to life in Buenos Aires during preseason window as we go unbeaten in the four games played with two wins and two draws. To be honest, on my previous saves/series so far on FM23, I normally play the strongest XI during this period, however doing this type of challenge and having to rely on youth players, I did rotate heavily between players for each of the four fixtures to try most of the squads out and there were a few of them that did impress me and have moved into the first team from the reserves and U20s squads. I did however try not to rely on the loan players as much during the preseason as I know at the end of the season, they will be back at their parent clubs. But they might have to play a key role in the upcoming season, if we want to establish ourselves in the league with the board wanting us to finish mid-table. Media predication is 22nd out of 38 club, yes 38 clubs in the second tier of this great footballing nation. PLAYER WATCH I’ll post a little bit about some of the players that I have came cross during preseason who if I can keep around may have a big part to play in the first few seasons. Otherwise these blogs will be a little thin on the ground due not not being able to use transfer or loan markets. I’ll highlighting my four top prospects… Also, to note, I was looking in the U20s squad and saw two of my youth players on youth contracts as being wanted by another club. Both were being tracked/wanted by River Plate and to be honest both had four star potential so I got them both signed on new deals and added £1M release clauses on both of them. Federico Losas | GK Our first choice GK, has youth on his side and five star potential too and hopefully none of the big clubs like Boca or River come knocking to soon. Was expecting my first team GK to be mid 30s like my previous saves, It reminds me of Carl Rushworth who was on loan at Walsall a couple of season ago. Great potential too. Anyway, back to Losas, some room for improvement but looks solid. Nicolás Chávez | LB Defo, first on the team sheet and another youthful player with five star potential. This club has a few good players and hopefully make some money of some of them in the near future so I can invest into the youth and training facilities. There is another LB, at the club who is on par and could come in if I lose my first choice. That is Facundo Regiroli, who is 17 and back up to Chávez. Enzo Hoyos | AM I think I have hit the jackpot here with some of these five star potentials at this club. I’m hoping their are more in the squad that will develop like Hoyos as I play a style of tactic that requires three AM in the shadow striker role. He’s got some good attributes but there still room for improvement and hopefully can get some goals for us during this upcoming season. Valentín Chocobar | AM This lad had to feature with a name like this and he has already impressed me during preseason by getting his name on the scoresheet. Hopefully Mr Cadbury doesn’t melt under pressure. Plus as well, I’d recently visited Cadbury’s World in Bournville too. I feel as the series goes on I will more and more use the preseason blog to show off players in detail. FINAL WORDS Yes I have packed enough red meat for the series in South America, like the Argentina World Cup squad did for Qatar, thank you very much and I’ll just sit quietly in the corner minding his own business adding crushed chills to my avocado toast. Also, it’s always nice when you get a DM on Twitter saying that they have also watched @FM LLaMa which featured the Undertakers in and they also are doing a save with them. Also, shout-out to Eric Ely, who done the third kit for this club. Will do a picture of it in the next blog… In the meantime, please feel free to leave a comment with any feedback and questions and don’t forget to check out all the other blogs on here and you can follow me on Twitter here. See you next time and thank you for reading… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxie84 Posted June 7, 2023 Author Share Posted June 7, 2023 (FM23) A Youth Only Challenge: Chacarita Juniors – Midseason ’22 Posted on 7 Jun 2023 by CoxieFM ‘A YOUTH ONLY CHALLENGE‘ is all about focusing on your club’s youth development, with an emphasis on producing homegrown talents. Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Home of CHACARITA JUNIORS a storied football club infamous for having never won Primera División in their history. Can they finally defy all odds by using youth only and go on to win the top división and then the Champions League… LAST EPISODE: (FM23) A Youth Only Challenge: Chacarita Juniors – Preseason ’22 MIDSEASON ’22 In this midseason update covers 19 games in all competitions, 18 in Primera Nacional and our Copa Argentina 5th round match and without further ado, let’s crack on… *Apologies, it is slightly rushed due to work commitments but please still enjoy as the end of season will be better and a banger!!! * FEB – MAR ’22 The season campaign started very well, which saw The Undertakers go on a ten game unbeaten streak in the league and climb to the top of the división for a while at least. Our first game ended in a 1-0 win over Def.de Belgrano and saw us set a new team record for youngest player ever at 16 years and 81 days. Then days later to set another new record, this was set by none other than Mr Cadbury himself Valentin Chocobar who grabbed his first goal for the club by scoring in the 2-1 win over Deportivo Morón with a thunderous strike within the 18 yard box. Already, setting records within the first two games of this series using youth players, buzzing FMers. The wins kept coming for the rest of the month of February with victories over Atlético de Rafaela and Club Atlético Güemes 2-0 and 1-0 respectively. Back to back 4-1 victories over clubs like Villa Dálmine and Gimnasia y Tiro started the month of March before beating Estudiantes de Río Cuarto 2-0 to make it seven wins in a row, damn I don’t think I have had a better start then this on FM23 so far. However, it was Deportivo Riestra who held their own against us and stopped us winning our eighth game in a row, but we didn’t lose but drew 0-0. To be fair, neither side wanted to score…Also, got my first Manager of the Month award during this period too. APR – MAY ’22 We went on to make it ten games without defeat in the Primera Nacional with cheeky 1-0 win over San Martín de Tucumán and then 1-1 draw at home against Defensores Unidos. However, it was fellow Buenos Aires rival Club Atlético Aldosivi, who stopped us in our tracks to hand us our first defeat of the season by beating us 1-0. We were poor in this game and we had better chances but you don’t score you don’t win, simples. We took a break from league action to jump into the 5th round of the Copa Argentina and faced last seasons Primera Nacional winners Tigre and we got battered like a fish. I’m definitely more of a battered sausage and small chips guy, with a side of mushy peas!! We returned to the Primera Nacional and faced fierce rivals Atlanta. Basically this is the only game that matters to the board and the supporters is to beat the Bohemians and The Undertakers buried them 2-0 and the fans were singing my name afterwards. We remained in first place in the league too. However, the next two games saw us lose back to back for the first time this season losing to the likes of Independiente Rivadavia and Deportivo Madryn but we will forget about it because it was soon forgotten as we went on to win the next four league games and the highlight was the 5-0 win against Flandria as Blanco scored four of the five goals. But, going slightly back to the back to back defeat, did however see us drop into second place in the league. LEAGUE TABLE Only in second on goal difference and it’s massive, lol…One goal separates 1st and 2nd, both level on points. Massive 18 games to play for and then I do believe the league splits if you don’t win the league. Maybe, I should look into this or we will find out together… YOUTH INTAKE Wow, I think this is the best intake of youth I have had, well fact it is for defo. I did sign the four players below, I believe there was another one or two more players that were in the top talent bracket and snapped them up too. PLAYER WATCH Back again, with player watch which featured in the last episode and two feature again and there a new player below too. Federico Losas | GK He has been class so far this season and kept 10 clean sheets in 19 games and only conceded 16 goals. If I can keep Losas I think he will remain our number one for years to come. I will likely renew is contract during the next update and add a release clause. How much should I set it by…. Enzo Hoyos | AM Played a key role in some of the matches and scored twice and assisted three times and has the potential to reach four an half stars. Ricardo Blanco | AM New kid on the block, I mean feature or more like old man of the squad. Blanco is currently the oldest player in our squad and has got 7 goals, six assists in 17 games so far this season. He hit four goals in one match and has been excellent so far this season for The Undertakers. FINAL WORDS After the game against our fierce rivals, the South American lads started a game of bean bag keepy uppies in the corner of the dressing room just for fun. In the meantime, please feel free to leave a comment with any feedback and questions and don’t forget to check out all the other blogs on here and you can follow me on Twitter here. See you next time and thank you for reading… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxie84 Posted June 8, 2023 Author Share Posted June 8, 2023 (FM23) A Youth Only Challenge: Chacarita Juniors – End of Season ’22 Posted on 8 Jun 2023 by CoxieFM ‘A YOUTH ONLY CHALLENGE‘ is all about focusing on your club’s youth development, with an emphasis on producing homegrown talents. Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Home of CHACARITA JUNIORS a storied football club infamous for having never won Primera División in their history. Can they finally defy all odds by using youth only and go on to win the top división and then the Champions League… LAST EPISODE: (FM23) A Youth Only Challenge: Chacarita Juniors – Midseason ’22 PREMERA DIVISION JUNE ’22 The first game of this month was covered in the previous update but it was a simple 1-0 win. However, the next match saw us return back to the top of the league thanks to two late goals from Maritato and Caro Torres in the 2-0 victory over San Telmo and made it five wins in a row. The away match against Patronato saw seven goals as both GK’s were having bad days, well can include the defenders too in that sentence. Old man Blanco scored a brace with the another two goals coming from Alderete in the 4-3 win. JULY ’22 A busy and unbeaten month of July followed as we looked to cement top spot in the league with two wins and three draws. Alanda got the winner in the 1-0 victory over Agropecuario Argentino. Then three draws in a row with two of them ending with 0-0 draws over Quilmes and Deportivo Maipú with nothing to report really a part from a sending off in the Quilmes and you’ll find out the player lower down in PLAYER WATCH. Astina got our goal and rescued the draw against Racing (CB). Somehow, with ten men with manage to beat Alte. Brown 1-0 with Valentin ‘MR CADBURY’ Chocobar with the only goal in this match. AUGUST ’22 It was errors galore and a match Chaco For Ever to forget as we beat them 5-0 in front of their home support. Enzo Hoyos got his first hat-trick of the season with Blanco getting the other two goals. Plus it’s always nice to see a club vision objective being completed during the season too. The winning run continued in the next two matches beating Alvarado and Brown (Adrogue) 1-0 and 2-0 respectively before after 15 games or so without defeat, it was Ferro Carril Oeste who beat us 2-1 in front of our home fans and it was our fourth defeat and final defeat of the season. SEPTEMBER ’22 However, in that defeat we still managed to reach the playoffs…Two seasons ahead of schedule set by the board. We were held to a 2 all draw against managerless Guillermo Brown (PM) in a game we should have put to bed, however we paid the price and were pegged back to level it. Gimnasia (Mendoza), Tristan Suarez and Estudiantes were all no match for us as we beat the three clubs mentioned 3-0, 1-0 and 3-0 respectively By doing this, this happened with three games to go… OCTOBER ’22 The Undertakers newly crowned CHAMPIONS of the league were not finished as that we still had three league games remaining and so I decided to rotate players with the reserves and u20s and drop the five or six loan players we had so I could make the decision for next season who I needed to promote into the first team squad. I was surprised as I thought we would have dropped points in the final three games, however we won all three and found some new faces for new season too. Polizzotto bagged a brace on his first 90 minutes in the 4-1 win over Nueva Chicago and Palacios and Loaysa scoring too. Polizzotto scored another brace in the very next match against All Boys in the 3-1 win. Then, finally another new starter up front Ezequiel Diaz scored a brace in the 4-1 won to end the season unbeaten in seven games. LEAGUE TABLE CHAMPIONS for the first time in our history and in my first season in charge. The other team that got promoted were Quilmes via the playoff system. Fifteen point gap between us and second place at the end of the season, when at the midseason point we were second only by goal difference. However, I do think we may struggle next season, maybe!! PLAYER WATCH RICARDO BLANCO | AM The old man of the squad and this seasons top goal scorer and also had the most assists during this first season. In 32 appearances, he got 11 goals and 10 assists. Not bad return for a 32 year old, who is in his prime. But will he be able to cut it in the top flight of Argentinean football next season? ENZO HOYOS | AM Hoyos is ten years younger than Blanco and he was the club’s second top goal scorer and assist maker this season and has featured in the previous blogs. Huge potential, will look to tie him down in the off season because with a four and half star potential, I feel the club might come knocking. This season 8 goals and 7 assists. MARTíN POLIZZOTTO | FWD This 19 year youngster featured during the season and made two sub appearance, however he did start the last two games up front once the season was ours and he scored four times in two games which impressed me that much he had to feature in this section. Four and half star potential and breakthrough prospect and one to keep an eye on for the future. DAVID VALLEJOS | DM This 15 year old youth player was in this season’s youth intake and he has the potential to be five star rated. Vallejos was the best of the best and hoping next season get might get the odd game or two. New contract in the off season and a release clause. Need to make money and invest into the youth setup here in Buenos Aires. Oh, yeah I nearly forgot about this bit as well, so glad I saved it. Young David here become the youngest player ever at 15 years and 285 days and had a debut to forget too…He must be in the Guinness book of records for youngest send off too? IN OTHER NEWS The team’s got that winning feeling as the u20s squad won the u20 Division B title by a point with MARTíN POLIZZOTTO notching 19 goals. END OF SEASON REVIEW The standard part of the blog, feel free to scroll and enjoy my friends. 1 / 8 FINAL WORDS If you have got this far down in the blog, then thank you and brace yourself for some massive news below… This is the 330th blog, so thank you for your support since May 2020. But this will be my final blog that I’ll be doing on FM23…I might return for FM24 or I might not return and if that’s the case, my blogging days are over… I’ll still be in the FM Library discord channel… My WordPress site will still be active so people can take a look around… In the meantime, please feel free to leave a comment with any feedback and questions and don’t forget to check out all the other blogs on here and you can follow me on Twitter here. See you next time and thank you for reading… Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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