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The Pentagon Challenge
Hello everyone!
With our Man. City save reaching it's end with the win of the UCL, it's time to start a new challenge.
I had many in mind but the one I was interested the most was the Pentagon Challenge. I never attempted to complete this one before and other than seeing some people posting about their experiences and tips I'm just going to learn the best way to do it as we go.
What's the Pentagon Challenge?
For those who don't really know what this challenge is about, it's a very straight forward concept:
Win the 5 major contonental trophies:
- Asian Football Confederation Championship (AFC)
- Confederation of African Football Championship (CAF)
- Confederation of North, Central American & Caribbean Association Football Champions League (CONCACAF)
- CONMEBOL Libertadores (Copa Libertadores)
- UEFA Champions League
Although the concept is easy on paper, the challenge is everything but easy to complete. That's because here's some rules we need to follow to do it the right way:
- We must complete the challenge in a single save game ( so basically not start a new save after completing one continent);
- No international management (not the best in FM anyway);
- The use of the in-game editor is forbidden (I don't even have it so no worries here);
- Players attributes should be masked (first time using this feature but it enhances the realism so I'm up for it);
- Start the save unemployed and with minimal badges and player experience.
Presenting Quim Tropedo
Here is our future legend. Quim Tropedo is a 30 year old Portuguese man from Guimarães who's dream always was to be a football player. Unfortunately, he lacked the skills to follow his dream and he decided to follow a different path. Now he became a maanger still waiting for the opportunity to get his license.
I decided to put all the mental points available in Adaptability because we will travel a lot around the world and having this trait higher will be a big help to change countries.
Looking For Our First Job
Due to our current qualifications we will start only with the African and Asian countries available to us since they are usually the ones with the lowest requirements. For this challenge you are basically required to download some sort of league add-ons because in Africa you only have South Africa in the main game. I did some research and chose some countries that are usually amongst the contenders for the CAF.
We will add more leagues as we procede in the challenge but for now this should be enough.
We got interview invitations from around 50% of them and after a lot of travelling, talking and ,most importantly, lying, we landed on Milford FC in South Africa.
Meeting the Club
Founded in 2012, Milford FC played in South Africa's 3rd division ever since 2014, having finished in the top 3 multiple occasions. In 2023, Milford FC bought the National First Division (South Africa's 2nd division) status of Uthongathi FC, replacing them in the competition.
The club's matches take place at Umhlathuze Central Sports Complex, which is located in the city of Richards Bay and has a capacity to take in 5k supporters, which can eventually go up to 8,750. The facilities are not very good but they could be worse as well.
i couldn't find any kits for them since it's the first time they are in South Africa's top 2 divisions so I decided to create them with the minimal inspiration I coudl take of the internet.
Finance wise we don't have any money to use for now but at least our balance is positive even though the projection is not looking very promising.
Meeting the Squad
Our best player is a 30 year old striker named Mike Gumede who actually looks very good. He knows how to finish and is fast, decent mentals as well. I'm expecting him to be a tremendous goalscorer for our team.
According to our assistant manager both our wide defensive positions are well covered by Zolani Nkombelo on the left and Mphakamiseni Nene on the right.
I think they both lack some aspects in their game, Nkombelo has the physicals but everything else is not very good and Nene is quite the opposite since he lacks the speed.
Siphelele Magubane is our best winger and actually looks very good to play on the left side of our attack.
The shadow striker Lindokuhle Zungu looks very good as well. Lacks the mentals but has everything else and he's only 22 years old as well so he will develop slightly.
Our defense is probably the worst part of our squad. Sphakamiso Khumalo is our best center-back and at 32 years of age he will only get worse.
When it comes to our goalkeepers things don't get better as our best keeper is not very good.
As you can see, the quality we have in our front 4 is severly damaged by our lack of defenders and central midfielders available. We'll have to try to make some money by selling players in our 2nd team and try to get some transfers in for free if we really want to avoid relegation this season.
The staff needs a bit of work too but I'm not sure if we even have money to bring in some better ones. Let's wait and see I guess.
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