2014 : the turning point
Okay, after two years, all the useless contracts in my team have expired and my wages are around 300k/year. Not bad for a team consistently winning Simadeildin. However, bad news : El Bahri wants to leave the team! I told him to wait a year, and he accepted. Still, I need a new right midfielder.
I recruited a new striker, a nigerian regen named Agoye. He's a complete striker, and will go well along Eboigbe.
I also recruited an awesome french offensive midfielder, and the next Bastian Schweinsteiger (!!) Not sure how long I can keep the latter.
Tactic : still the 4-4-2 :
Olsen - Naes, Rutgers, Savolainen, Justinussen - Sigurosson/Vassaugh , El Bahri, Zazu, Dedola - Eboigbe, Agoye
Bench :
GK : Pormar
Def : Andresen, Magnusson, Marshall
Mid : Tokpa, Olsen, Loland, Pohjanpalo
Str : Jonsson, Colombo, Udsen
Yeah, Marshall is now old and slow, so he went down to be a full back.
I also took briefly control of Tanzania (8 months) to learn Arab and to see if there's some good regens : there's only one, for next season.
League Cup was easy as ****, as was first part of Simadeildin. El Bahri is killing it for his last year, Eboigbe is still a beast but scores a bit less and provides a lot more assists. I taught him two special skills : "Run with ball in the center" and "Run with ball a lot" because of his pace, acceleration and dribbling. He's really making the opponents sweat.
The new stadium has been built at the same time. It's the biggest one in Iceland (10500) and in our opening game in Simadeildin, we scored 7500 attendance! The money will come more quickly from now on
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11 games won out of 11
The second part is always the hardest with the Cup and the C1 every three days.
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Second part was good, we finished Simadeildin three games before the end and after that, we made 3 draw games. Still didn't win the last game of the season, that's frustrating.
Agreed to sell El Bahri for 150K (team record) to a STUPID SWEDEN TEAM FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL??? SERIOUSLY??? Stupid IA...
Around the globe :
France won the 2014 World Cup against England (1-0 AET, Diaby)
Cristiano Ronaldo won the 2013 Ballon d'Or (Messi not even in the top 50!!)
Manchester City won the C1 against Real Madrid (0-0, 8P-7P, Pepe missed the last one)
Lyon won the Europa League against Vfb Stuttgart 2-0 (Tafer, Lisandro Lopez)
In Tanzania, my job was precarious. The president wants me to play "well" in the African Nations Cup Qualifiers, all the while knowing I'm against Ivory Coast and Gambia. -__-. I quit with basic knowledge of Arabic and left to Ireland!
The European run : 2014-2015
All the Iceland teams except us died ASAP. Great.
I drew BATE Borissov in 2nd round. Seriously? They're in the last 32 in Europa League IRL. We have no chance in ****...
2nd round
BATE Borissov 2-3 Vikingur
Eboigbe, OG, Zazu
Vikingur 0-0 BATE Borissov
Well that was unexpected. I instructed my players to try to score goals on the away game and we did. The home game was rough.
3rd round, we drew NK Maribor, the Slovenian champs. I think we have a chance here.
3rd round
NK Maribor 0-3 Vikingur
Savolainen, Zazu, Rutgers
Vikingur 1-1 NK Maribor
Eboigbe
Yes! This means we get to play the Play Offs, and wheter we win or lose, we get to play a group stage (Europa League or C1)
However, we drew Sparta Prague, yet again the toughest team possible...
Play Offs
Vikingur 4-0 Sparta Prague
Zazu (3), Dedola
OMG! Zazu was on fire. He scored a free kick, and an impossible goal by shooting near the corner post. Now we're sure to go the C1 Group stage. What could happen?
Sparta Prague 3-0 Vikingur
...doesn't matter, we pass! Iceland is awarded good UEFA coefficient, and we're going up the ladder (35)
And we win 7.2 M€! I went to the board the day after :
-New training center + New youth facilities (3.5M)
-Pro status!!
-Scouts allowed to go all around the world!!
I keep 4M just in case, because I don't know how much I will have to spend now that we're pros (actually, not now, but starting in January 2015)
Champions League group F
Arsenal
FC Porto
Glasgow Rangers
Vikingur
LOL, we're dead. In every group, we were dead. Doesn't matter, we have 4M in the bank! I'm still playing every game seriously to see the flaws of my 4-4-2 against big teams.
Rangers 4-1 Vikingur
Eboigbe
Vikingur 3-1 FC Porto
Agoye (2), Eboigbe
That was a stolen game. We scored in the 1st minute, and they owned us all the 1st half, but we scored again in our only counter. They came back in the 2nd half stronger and scored. We held on until the last minute where their goal keeper went to help the other players in the corner kick. The corner kick failed and Agoye shot the ball from the midfield to score.
Anyway, we won 800K with this game, more than 50 years worth of Simadeildin. >_>
Arsenal 4-2 Vikingur
OG, Eboigbe
Vikingur 0-3 Arsenal
Vikingur 2-4 Rangers
Dedola, Udsen
FC Porto 6-2 Vikingur
Eboigbe, Savolainen
We get carded a lot in C1, which is never good. Two people were sent off during the group stage alone. But our offensive power is very good, even from European standards. We need a new defense line.
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Up next : The recap of Iceland in 2014, random thoughts.