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Champions League Final 2044: Dortmund (N) Winners! And an easy victory in a match without any doubts about the result. I'm glad we didn't meet Man Utd in the final, s that would have been a more evenly matched tie, with us still being the strongest but them easily able to cause an upset. This marks our sixth Champions League win, and the end of another succesful season. We're slowly seeing the progress of San Marino in europe. SS Virtus came short in their draw in the europa league and lost the first tie in their second round of the Europa League knockout stages against Rangers 3-0. They still won their hometie 1-0 however, gaining important points for the national coefficient, which we'll see soon in the end of season summary over San Marino in Europe. Another win, another succes, and another small step in the right direction for San Marinese Football.

Just for comparison with the grey players, this is Mirco Spighi who was the biggest profile at Folgore Falciano in 2021. He would probably be half or maybe one star now. The grey players we are getting right now are still below the level of the players we signed on free transfers in the first season. It's a long journey and we still have long ways to go, if San Marino are to overtake world football. Or just get close to the top at least. So far some of the objectives have been to be competitive in europe, win european trophies and then end up winning the Champions League. Now our objective is to keep winning the Champions League while in order for San Marinese Club football to rise and become a greater force in Europe. That's the curren objective, and we can succeed in many ways. I'm just hoping eventually we can get into the top six of the national coefficient. Then we would have at least two teams in the champions League Group Stage, and two teams in the Europa League, and two teams nin the qualifying stages of the Conference League. This season we had four teams in Europe, and it really helps on the coefficient. That's the objective. Make sure the other teams rise to the challenge, while maintaining our dominant position as well. That shouldn't be hard. Just very slow...

Grey players An option I've never used before in Football Manager, but this time around it actually makes kinda sense. When you're not able to fill up your squad the game generates "grey" players for your team. In San Marino we have to have at least two San Marinese players in the team for all domestic matches. Normally these players don't have anywhere near the current ability of the teams you're facing, but in San Marino, some of the players can actually become "quite good" compared to the general level of footballers in the San Marinese league. Some of the players we get are actually dual nationality, I believe it's due to our many affiliate clubs around the world, but choose to be San Marinese because they think they'll be able to get into the national Squad. Overall some of these players might not make it into the national squad, but they can still be solid players for some of the other teams in the league. Right now the level of the league is still quite low. We have four teams that have a few players who are two star level, but still mostly 1,5 star in current ability. And we still have a few squads whose best players are only one star, meaning these players are quite competitive in the domestic games. My focus right now is on signing up players, making them available for some of the other squads, hoping it will help San Marinese football in the future. I belive it could provide a huge improvement in San Marino. We only have one real good player in Riccardo Rosti, and then among the rest of the players we 3-4 decent players and a lot of players who would be good in San Marino and nowhere else. Some of the attributes are also evenly distributed, making sure that there are more allrounders. San Marino are lacking players with evenly distributed technical skills, and this might help a bit. There are still not many good players though, but there are a few players who might make that decent ability we could use for every spot in the national team. That would really help. There's no sight of a decent goalkeeper however, and I think that might be a future problem for long to come. They're all very bad...

Champions League final 2044 So once again we're in the Champions League final and this season we shouldn't have been in it, but managed a huge comeback. In the first semi final against Man Utd we lost 3-0 at Old Trafford. I still had hopes though. After all we beat Man City 7-2 at home, and we could replicate a result like that because we're really strong at home. With 2-2 at half time and Man Utd scoring on their only two chances in first half I gave the players the hairdryer treatment and then something clicked, and they managed a magnificent comeback with club legend Ed Malyon scoring the equalising goal in the 93rd minute giving us the extra time we needed to take the win and secure another Champions League Final! Marian Kunert scored two goals right of the bat in extra time and we could switch to a more defensive and not so intense formation to make sure we didn't get any injuries from this match.

Four teams in Europe I know it sounds amazing and this is quite groundbreaking as it is the first time we've had four teams playing european football during the autumn season. This season SS Cosmos qualified for the Conference League and both Tre Penne and SS Virtus ended up in the Europa League. The first round was amazing as every team won their match, and then it became more clear once again that the other squads still need lots of improvement berfore they will become dominant in europe. Still this was amazing and SS Virtus actually managed to win four matches and their group helping the national coefficient tremendously this season. We're in february now and getting ready for the next stages, and we already have a very nice coefficient for the season and might even reach our highest coefficient ever, if we manage to win the Champions League again this season.

You've gotten very far and I can honestly say that I'm rooting for you and hoping there's an update on your save every time I get in here. I like your format and all the details you keep trail of. With All the money you now have, and the ability to finally keep a hold of your best players it shouldn't be long before you challenge for promotion. Great job 😃👍

UEFA Super Cup 2043: St. Pauli (N) Another win, and we didn't even do any friendlies before this one. We've sold a few players and mostly just pushed a lot of money into the other San Marinese teams so far this summer.

San Marino in Europe 2043: This is a first. The national league has actually gone down in the rankings, but that might as well be a result of the others going up in reputation, rather than San Marino going down. In terms of coefficient, San Marino are now 9th after Turkey really has upped their game the past two seasons. Our best option is to overtake Austria and reclaim 8th.

Champions League Final: Strasbourg (N) Deserved winners in a onesided match. Of course it helps when our former right back record buy from many season ago gets a direct red card. A nice victory and a great end to the season. Nothing much has happened for San Marino this season, but luckily the SS Cosmos has performed well and done a difference that will be felt in the future, and maybe shows a promise of what's to come? Let's hope that. Other than that the result is really nice and shows that our squad is terribly strong right now. We have Milovanovic who has turned 33 and wil start to deteriorate, but other than that we have a strong squad that could easily win many more trophies in the future. This is also the fifth trophy we've won in the Champions League, and Rosti now has five medals, contributing in four finals. Our players are dominating the team of the year.

Champions League Final 2043 Once again we've gone all the way, and now we only have Strasbourg left. A few seasons ago they got a sugar daddy and it really shows. They have bought a lot of our players for high sums, and now they are in the final against us. This will be interesting. We are huge favourites.

Another European adventure is over... But it is not our campaign. SS Cosmos have been participating in the conference League this season exceeding all expectations almost making it to the Quarter Finals: This is so much better than expected. We've been used to the other teams not really performing at all. SS Virtus is probably the strongest team among the rest in San Marino, but they are consistently getting severely beaten in the Europa League. Meanwhile we haven't gotten much from the automatic qualification we had for the conference league (They always qualify for the conference league, because no one has won the Europa League Playoffs yet). But this year SS Cosmos has done brilliantly and won second place in the conference league giving us some much needed points for the national coefficient. We are bleeding points and have been overtaken by Turkey right now and are currently aiming for 9th at the end of this season. We still need the last match of the first knockout round of the Champions League. If we win that match we're already ahead of last season in the coefficients. Very important. And look at 40/41 where we won the Champions League. We really need the other teams to contribute if we are to win anything. Right now a win in europe gives us 0.400 for the coefficient, because we have five teams in europe. We will inject more cash into the other clubs for the next seasons to see how they do.

We're in March! Overall things are going great this season. We had a draw against Bayern Munich in the Champions League Group stage, but other than that we are still winning all we can. It's been a long time since I last gave an update on our squad and it might be time for just that. This is our strongest lineup as it is right now. We actually have a better Left Back in Cameron Sadler, but he's turning 30 soon and I am currently retraining Mario Luciani as a Left back because he just has so much potential in that spot. Goalkeeper: Our Goalkeeper is probably the best keeper in the game in 2043. He's made the team of the year on several occasions and was awarded the best goalkeeper in the world recently. Other than that he's also the most expensive player ever: That's right. We bought him for way too much money, but we needed the upgrade. We have Salvini at the club, but he's away for the third season in a row with PSG, trying to make a step up. Salvini is a fine player, but just not the same level as Orzechowski. Right Back: Good player. Tied with Alfonso Peña in this spot. Peña is in midfield right now. We actually had a better player at right back, but we sold Gonzalo Gascon because he doesn't like big matches, and was getting older. Centre Back: Milovanovic has been the best Centre back in the world for many years, and now he has been overtaken by Jan Hansen who will be in our central defence for the next many seasons. Left Back: Our new Left Back is a former Loan farm player of ours, who was sent to Victor San Marino for a few seasons. He's homegrown in San Marino and does well in the registration regulations which is another reason we want him in our squad. Another reason is his abundant talent. He came back from loan and was sold to Bayern Munich with a buy back clause at 54M. When we sold him he was a three star player with a full five star potential at the age of 22. I haven't seen anyone else with full five stars, hence the buy back clause, because we wanted to keep track of his development, while we could not maintain it ourselves. He's proven to become a fine player over the last 2,5 seasons and we bought him back, trying to train him as a Left Back. Central Midfield: Deadly central Midfield. Peña also in contention for Right Back, but Mané could easily be in mifield as well. Didier Dias primarily plays as a left Winger in our squad, because we still field San Marinese Superstar Riccardo Rosti in the Champions League. Right Winger: Scary good player. Was originally a central midfielder who we retrained (same with Didier Dias at Left winger) and he's been magnificent. Left Winger: Fine player, but mostly doesn't play because Didier Dias is here instead. Strikers: Both are Ballon d'or winners, with Pereira being the recent winner and Malyon winning last year. Malyon has been at the club since 18, and has never looked back. He's the record goalscorer at the club, and will probably go down in history some day as the greatest goalscorer in the world. Obviously it helps that he plays in San Marino, but he has still performed exceptionally in Champions League as well. And with 66 goals for England, he is only 41 goals away from being the record goalscorer for England as well. Mason Greenwood has 107 goals in 109 matches. That's the lineup for now. We have great players in squad and a few players away on loan as well. Right now we are focussing heavily on sending out money to Victor San Marino and then the other squads in San Marino are up next. Victor San Marino went into the Conference League in their first season back in Serie A after their relegation. Then they came close to relegation in the next (two matches a week was hard on them), and this season they are in contention for Conference League once more. I believe they are now strong enough to stay in the Serie A. We have sold them a few players, and they are consistently bidding on some of their former loan players. We are happy to sell players to them. Youngsters can become trained in San Marino and that might benefit us in the future, when we are registering for the Champions League. Other than that we are fielding lots of San Marinese players in the league right now, trying to make the best of some of the talent we have at our disposal. Last year was a huuuuge dissappointment for the national squad. They were supposed to break into the top 100 but then they had this season: The only nation they beat was the best one of them all. They really should have beaten both Iceland and Israel... That's about it for now.

San Marino in Europe 2042 After a dissappointing end to the season it's nice to see that overall progress is still being made. In the club coefficient rankings we're still 1st. And our nations coefficient still justifies 8th, but we're close in the run-up and might lose our position this year. We really need to win the Champions League, and we really need some of the other teams to perform to their best in Europe.

Meltdown... I really did not expect anything like this. Our goalkeeper gave three goals away and everyone just didn't perform. We should have been the better side in every position but none of our players performed anything at all... Terrible end to the season. We've had a lot of injuries at the end of this season up front but our defence was just nowhere to be seen today. Dissappointment...

We're in the Champions League Final for the fourth time in a row, and the sixth out of the last seven seasons. Standard Liege is our Belgian affiliate. We did mis 1 point for the coefficient against Bayern, but other than that it has been a succesful campaign once again. With our current squad we've built upon every season and we look stronger than ever with almost every position filled in with the best player in the world for that position. I am hoping that next season the other clubs will contribute more. This season we got two wins from the european group stages. That's not good enough if we want to conquer the world, which is my ambition. We're far from that, but hopefully soon, the other clubs will begin to buy foreign players and finally deliver to the ambition.

Champions League Quarter Final: Man Utd (A) Another entertaining match! After their start we gained momentum and took charge, but it was tight most of the way and things could easily have tipped the other way round. Our new striking prodigy João Pereira did all the work himself. He has been at the club since 18, but been away on loan for five seasons before breaking into the first team.

Champions League Quarter Final: Man Utd (H) The bookies are putting Man Utd in second and us in first, so it's an even draw already. This is one of the most dramatic matches I've seen so far. Francini (Who we sold to them, old loan farm player) committed two penalties and we missed both of them. After his red card we threw everything ahead to try and secure the victory only for Rosti to get a direct red card shortly thereafter. Our old midfield general Jamie Ross scored the last goal of the match and we conceded another red card before the end. Terrible match, but one of the most entertaining games I've seen in this save.

San Marinese Golden Boy This is a first one for us. We actually have a San Marinese golden boy. I doubt he'll ever be any good at absolute top level, but in San Marino he's looking like the best striker we've ever had. He hasn't fulfilled his potential yet, but will soon reach his ceiling I guess. Still this is testiment to the progress the nation has gone through over the years. A fine striker who could do a decent job in the bottom of the Serie A. Along with Barretta we of course still have Riccardo Rosti who has now reached 24, and has become a very good player, who is actually doing an okay job for us. He has been part of every Champions League Succes we've had, and I plan to keep him in our squad and make him a legend of the game as one of the most winning players of all time. His Technical ability is okay, but his mentals and physicals especially are what has taken him to a very high level. Crazy improvement from this guy. Both players are pivotal in the succes of San Marino. The national squad did okay over the last year: That beating by Spain hurts, but we have some tight matches, that could easily have ended up with a much better result. Barretta has finally started scoring for the national squad and that will help alot. He comes at a good time. Marco Marani and Francesco Raschi are both 32 and will soon be done. But the striking department will not be hurt by them stopping. With the results over the last year we're also looking at a nation nearing the top 100. Right now San Marino is no. 102, could the next year, be the one where they break into top 100?

UEFA Super Cup: Sevilla (N) Winners... Not the most exciting match ever. I think i counted six shots on the woodwork from our side, and lots of chances where we should have sealed the deal. But no... In the end we still came out with the win though.

FIFA Club World Cup Final: Man Utd (N) Winners! Tight match where we just waited to strike when they were tired. Our new wonderkid Ole Gunnar Solskjær (I do have the ingame editor installed, but really haven't used it), scored the last goal against Man Utd. He's only just turned 18 and is already looking like value for the money, with a price of 3.6M.

FIFA Club World Cup After a bumpy start to the World Cup, we went and did the job all the way with a our Club World Cup plan of ultra defensive Tiki Taka football with low intensity to tire out opponents. Once again it has ensured our progression through the tournament.

Huuuuuuuuuuge jump this year! We're in the top ten with the San Marinese League. This is amazing and will most definitely help the other teams in the long run. This means more money will go into the league and the clubs while their reputation will rise, and in the long run the current ability of their players will rise as well. No news in this one after another Champions League run. The nations coefficient took a hit however: We still have a long way to go, before we can reach the next level. Last season we had Virtus in the Europa League and Fiorentino in the Conference League. Virtus won one match, and Fiorentino got severely beaten. As a result the nations coefficient wasn't succesful. We will probably have another bad season next year. Tre Penne aren't automatically qualififed for the conference league, and Virtus will be in the europa league again. It's still a long process, but things are going the right way.

Victor San Marino in the Conference League next season: After a terrible start to the season Victor San Marino defied all expectations and qualified for the conference league next season. Of course it also helped that five of the players in their starting lineup are loanees from us. But this will really help the improve and consolidate their position in the future. As an extra note, four of the players in the media dream eleven are players from Folgore. Peña, Hansen, Ortolá and Parilla. Meanwhile Skinner, Wood, Fonseca, Iacono and Molina are former players, and this summer we're signing Gavi on a free transfer (he's a model professional we want for mentoring). The only player we haven't had anything to do with is Kosloski in goal.