Intro
Hey! So I just started a club career story with Macclesfield ( http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/foot...-stories/372838-club-career-macclesfield.html ), and wanted to do an international career to go alongside it. I personally feel as though international management is often overlooked in FM, and I love it! Some of my best memories have come from this side of the game, including taking Ireland to the final of Euro 2016, taking Norway to the knockout stages of World Cup 2018, and winning the WC 2026 with Uruguay!
I chose Trinidad & Tobago for a bit of a challenge. On FM17 I had a career with Jamaica (got them to WC in 2022 and won the Carribean Championship in 2018) which I really enjoyed, and so North America seems like a good option again. We've got some decent players, and a young starlet (on the Jamaica career I enjoyed developing Leon Bailey a lot). Hope you enjoy it!
We start in June 2017, and I'll probably do an update every 4 months. We're already out of WC2018 qualifying unfortunately, failing to get to the 5th and final round of the CONCACAF competition after finishing an embarrassing 3rd in our 4th round grouo behind U.S.A. and Guatemala. We've got the Carribean Championship in 2018 as our first major tournament, the the Gold Cup in 2019, so it's going to be a busy couple of years!
Anyway, I've played our first game against French Guyana, who're unranked but actually have some very good players such as Privat and Ludovic Baal who both play in the French top flight.
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We played at home, although we had to travel to the town of Sangre Grande in the north-east of the island (population approx. 16,000), rather than playing in the capital city. The stadium was small but it was nice to play our football in a different part of the country. We also gave a debut to 22 year old midfielder Duane Muckette who looks like he could be a useful player for us in the future. It was Kevin Molino, who plays in the MLS, who got the late winner for us after a poor performance though, scoring his 19th international goal.
Coming up in the next update we'll do September 2017-December 2017. In that time we'll have three more friendlies starting with Barbados. I'm starting out playing a 4-3-2-1 with a DM, 2 CMs and two wingers. Feel free to check out my Macclesfield career mode too!
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