Parker26
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The African Adventure


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Africa is a continent that I don't think many people are familiar with, and therefore shy away from managing there, which is the same for me. I am going to try to make my way around as many African clubs as I can, winning, or coming close to, the league.


http://www.thirdhalfsoccer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/africa-football.jpg


However, I won't be attempting to make this into too much of a story, but instead just documenting what happens during my career due to not having a lot of time to focus on this. For this reason the updates will be yearly or whenever something of significance happens, which I will post here.
Parker26
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The African Adventure - Algeria - ES Setif

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I decided to start in Algeria, with ES Setif. A team with a very good background, domestically but also in the champions league. However the league has been very competitive with at least 4 teams competing for the title each year which is another reason for me wanting to join the league




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This is the formation I plan to use


The media predicted either a 2nd or 1st place finish...

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...however we didn't manage to win the league, with JS Kabylie running away with it in the end. But with the highest goal difference in the league, we definitely didn't do too poorly.



The League

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We only lost 5 times in the season, and only 2 of them at home. The most significant results was to start with was the 1-0 away defeat to the eventual champions, Kabylie. At this point they were 5th, and this kick-started their eventual surge up the league. The next one was the 2-0 victory against the favourites for the league, USM Alger. We were in a three way battle for the league, and this win gave us a bit of breathing room, and probably helped us on our way to second. Finally, it was the 2-1 home defeat to Kabylie, which was the end of our title hopes.


The Cup

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The highlight of the season was undoubtedly the 2-1 victory against Belouizdad AET. It was a game we dominated but only scraped a vital victory. It secured a double, however the Super Coupe was won by the previous manager. However the first choice central midfielder, and eventual player of the match, Sofiane Lagraa, sustained an injury after his goal which resulted in 10-11 months on the sidelines. His contract was expiring and I was trying to resign him, however, at 29 years old, it put the final nail in his ES Setif coffin.
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The Champions League

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All but one of these games were played by the previous manager, and the match I did take charge of, we lost. It didn't matter as we were already out, but we did lose to USM Alger, incidentally.

Transfers

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We made one quite high profile signing, in Rachid Ghezzal, on loan from Ligue 1 giants, Lyon. He is Algerian which is a bonus, and he also filled the space of the star man, Abdelmoumene Djabou, who got a long term injury. The only other player of note was Sofyane Cherfa, who was signed as the new centre back as the previous first choice was sub-par and 37 years old. Cherfa is 31 but quite a bit better. began his career at Monaco, and has played in other areas of France as well as Greece and also Cyprus.
The three players leaving permanently were Walid Chenine, who left to Cameroonian side Astres, Eudes Dagoulou, who also left for Cameroon, and finally, Hacene Ogbi, who I released. He was the highest earner despite being a back up. The other two left due to being foreign and also backup players.

The Squad

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The team has performed very well, but I need to improve the depth. I was given a squad with a lot of wingers, and not many defenders, so i have got 6 players who made less than 5 starts, 3 of which failed to feature at all. Each of these players, other than the second choice keeper, I will be moving on, and replacing with a few center backs and a replacement central midfielder, to fill the gap left by Sofiane Lagraa. The key players this season, were Abdelmalek Ziaya, who scored 29 goals in 41 games, Fares Hachi, the full back, who got 18 assists as well as 3 goals, from left back, in 39 games and also Toufik Zerara, the central midfielder, who got a 7.87 match rating, in 44 appearances.


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Managed to get into the Algerian Hall of Fame after 1 year. I also signed a new two year contract.
Parker26
9 years ago
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I have just started the second season, however there is a crash dump, which happens on the same day each time I try to play it. Does anyone know how to fix this? Or what is causing it?
Dan
13 years ago
5 months ago
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I would imagine its an issue with the customer databases, try send it to SI see if they have any solutions over there.

Hopefulyl you get it recovered as its been good so far
Parker26
9 years ago
2 weeks ago
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I would imagine its an issue with the customer databases, try send it to SI see if they have any solutions over there.

Hopefulyl you get it recovered as its been good so far


Looks like its a problem with some of my custom databases conflicting. So I think I am going to have to end it. Frustrating, I was getting into it

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