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The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
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Castel Di Sangro is a small village with a population of 5,000 that was involved in the biggest miracle of football according to some. The miracle started in 1993 when Osvaldo Jaconi took over a Serie C2 side facing relegation and led them to second place. The next year he started the miracle by getting the small town into the Serie C1 that contained some teams that had been in the Serie A not long ago. Avoiding relegation was the goal and somehow Castel Di Sangro finished second and made the promotion playoff where the miracles occurred. They had a two legged semi final and lost the first leg 1-0. With only 15 seconds left in the game Jaconi put on a defender who had played 7 games and failed to score in any of them. 7 seconds after coming on the defender scored and Castel di Sangro advanced into the final against Ascoli. 120 minutes went and just before time ended the manager subbed keepers for the shootout. After 8 rounds of no misses the subbed on keeper made a seemingly impossible to get them into the Serie B.
There despite not having a stadium ready until December when the poor quality pitch flooded and couldn't be used. Following that two players died in a car crash, the captain of Ghana was on trail and signed but, then instantly sacked due to racism. The owner who was possibly close with the mafia then staged the signing of a Leicester player who started a fight and turned out to be a actor. A player and his wife were charged with Cocaine smuggling. Finally after heroics from the keeper kept them up the final game of the season was fixed to ensure Bari got promoted.
Since then they have been relegated and are now in the 6th level of Italian football and an amateur team again. I want to get them into the Serie A this time and create a bigger miracle. Annoyingly I can't make the 6th division playable so I promoted them to the 5th division where we are now massive underdogs to survive and have no actual players so I will have to sign an entire team and keep us from relegation. Then I will try and climb up the leagues and become a force in Italian football. While in Serie B they also had Carlo Cudicini and Vincenzo Iaquinta at the club both of whom went on to great things.
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The only thing we have to our advantage for this level is we still have the 7,000 seater stadium even if the village population is 5,000
View attachment 186115
Castel Di Sangro is a small village with a population of 5,000 that was involved in the biggest miracle of football according to some. The miracle started in 1993 when Osvaldo Jaconi took over a Serie C2 side facing relegation and led them to second place. The next year he started the miracle by getting the small town into the Serie C1 that contained some teams that had been in the Serie A not long ago. Avoiding relegation was the goal and somehow Castel Di Sangro finished second and made the promotion playoff where the miracles occurred. They had a two legged semi final and lost the first leg 1-0. With only 15 seconds left in the game Jaconi put on a defender who had played 7 games and failed to score in any of them. 7 seconds after coming on the defender scored and Castel di Sangro advanced into the final against Ascoli. 120 minutes went and just before time ended the manager subbed keepers for the shootout. After 8 rounds of no misses the subbed on keeper made a seemingly impossible to get them into the Serie B.
There despite not having a stadium ready until December when the poor quality pitch flooded and couldn't be used. Following that two players died in a car crash, the captain of Ghana was on trail and signed but, then instantly sacked due to racism. The owner who was possibly close with the mafia then staged the signing of a Leicester player who started a fight and turned out to be a actor. A player and his wife were charged with Cocaine smuggling. Finally after heroics from the keeper kept them up the final game of the season was fixed to ensure Bari got promoted.
Since then they have been relegated and are now in the 6th level of Italian football and an amateur team again. I want to get them into the Serie A this time and create a bigger miracle. Annoyingly I can't make the 6th division playable so I promoted them to the 5th division where we are now massive underdogs to survive and have no actual players so I will have to sign an entire team and keep us from relegation. Then I will try and climb up the leagues and become a force in Italian football. While in Serie B they also had Carlo Cudicini and Vincenzo Iaquinta at the club both of whom went on to great things.
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The only thing we have to our advantage for this level is we still have the 7,000 seater stadium even if the village population is 5,000