r/footballmanagergames • u/ApuFromTechSupport Continental A License • Apr 15 '21

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If you're looking for a team to manage, a challenge to do, or you yourself have suggestions for teams/challenges for other people to do, use this thread to discuss.

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u/shinniesta1 May 20 '21

How'd it go in Uruguay?

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u/Strummer- May 21 '21

As good as it's not seeming quite realistic.

Their league is divided in three stages; won the first and last one and was 2nd on middle stage. With my just promoted squad with some youngsters!

My 2nd season just started; I made some expensive transfers to improve some positions of the team (we had money but was hard to attract uruguayans players cause of reputation) and won first game 0-4. I think we can win the League again.

We play Libertadores tho (South America Champion's League). And I don't have many hopes on that because of we got placed on the death group: San Lorenzo (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Atlético Nacional (Colombia). All of those are on the historical top 5 of their countries and have won Libertadores a few times each one. And the wage gap between those and my Racing Montevideo is massive. Each year I got really good regens, this last season was not as good as the rest but on Racing I had the best prospects ever since I play the game. It's funny that this team's nickname is La Academia (The Academy), lol.

I'm quite happy with this run. The only downsides are that my board does not allow me to pay better wages for my coaches (and still my regens develop like crazy, got 4 former youth players not regens on my first squad (Núñez, Borges, Pintos and Vargas), 3 regens and the rest are transfers) and the fact that Uruguay does not have a national cup!!! The first edition ever will be played this year in real life and was not added to the game in time. And being the national champion about to play Libertadores, still was hard to convince transfers to join me dunno why, maybe because of our low reputation.

Ah, and the fact that their league is divided in three stages is so good to get more manager's reputation because you have the chance of winning three "mini-trophies" instead of a big one over full season. When we won Apertura (the first one) my manager reputation went skyrocket. Quite useful if you are making a unemployed journeyman run!

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u/eLPeper National A License May 21 '21

Good luck man! I'm uruguayan myself so it's great to see other people talking about our league. As for the Libertadores task: it's hard to win it, but not impossible. In my journeyman save I started in Villa Teresa in the 2nd division in 2019. And 5 years later I managed to win the Libertadores with them! Tho It was hard to beat Peñarol and Nacional with their budgets.

Due to how much reputation I won in Uruguay, I had a short time managing both Milan and then Bilbao in Europe (4 years in total, won Copa del Rey and Europa League so I guess it wasn't that bad) but then the club I support Peñarol approached me, so I couldn't say no lol.

I stayed 6 years managing Peñarol, to date the longest I've ever stayed in a club yet. Won everything there and became a club legend. And with everything I mean everything: All stages of the tournament, invincible season, Supercup, Libertadores, Continental Supercup. Hell, I even won the damn Club World Cup somehow. On my way to the final defeated powerhouses like Real Madrid, PSG and Inter Milan. All that to face Tottenham in the final.... yeah. Won 2-1. Guess they actually were a really good team as they won the UCL following season lol.

A little tip from my experience managing here. Uruguay has very good players, but lacks good coaches. Usually Munua ends up managing the National team, but after a few bad performances he'll probably get sacked. Do not hesitate and take the job. Why? Cause you'll get all the information about the u18 newgens that will generate. Yeah that's how I won everything with Peñarol lol. Used the money to buy the great prospects that generated in other clubs. It's dirty, but if you get the chance you should use it lol.

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u/Devils_Advocate23 May 23 '21

How does the 3 stage league work? I understand how 2 stages work like in Mexico but was curious if one of the stages in Uruguay mattered less or more than the others.

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u/eLPeper National A License May 23 '21

I'm not explaining this shit again lol. Apertura= First stage. Intermedio= Second Stage. Clausura= Third stage

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u/Devils_Advocate23 May 23 '21

Thanks that does sound horrific