El gaucho libre

So, here I begin. After my last career having been a complete failure – it ended after about a month due to a crash – I am trying to make another one. Still going from Uruguay, with many different possibilities, let us see where it will bring me.

Some technical data.

The game began on the 27th of December of 2015. The originally open leagues are Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, England, Paraguay and Uruguay. This time I didn’t load any league extensions except the ones by claassen, as they are proven to be stable. It will make it a bit more difficult for me to find a job as no lower league amateur clubs will be loaded, however, I hope it will make the career more interesting.

Let us go then.

So yes, I have to do two updates in an hour. I can’t say it is my favourite decision. However, let it be so.

And after not a very long time, in February I have been offered contracts from two clubs: Crawley Town from the League Two and Deportes Temuco from the Chilean Primera B. After having had quite a dilemma, I opted for the Chilean club as it was more interesting personally for me. So the Chilean Championship will be seen here now.

Deportes Temuco – March 2016

Deportes Temuco is a professional football club from the city of Temuco in Southern Chile. The city itself is a very interesting place, it is the centre of the indigenous Mapuche culture and it undoubtedly is worth visiting.

The club play at the Bicentenario Germán Becker Stadium in Temuco. It was built in 1965, after the World Cup held in the country, and its capacity is of 18.500 people. Deportes Temuco are the only club to play at the stadium. The club have once played in the highest Chileans divisions, but then they suffered a big crisis and recovered from it only in May 2013. Since then they have been playing in Primera B, being always one of the candidates for promotion.

Competitions



Deportes Temuco is at the moment 10th in the Clausura Table of the Primera B and 10th as well in the Global Table. It is safe from being relegated, but very far from the expected promotion.The club’s main rivals are Iberia Los Ángeles, Deportes Concepción and Deportes Puerto Montt, being all of them the closest geographically clubs to Temuco. However, only the last two can be analysed as real rivalries (Iberia the most) because Deportes Concepción has a more real clásico in their home city and Deportes Puerto Montt has a traditional clásico against Provincial Osorno, even though they only play amateur competitions this year. There is a derby admitted by FM, but the rival – Unión Temuco – is extinct.

Here go some recently played matches and the schedule for the rest of the year – we only have 7 more matches, unless we classify to the playoffs.


Players

The squad of the main team is quite big – there are no reserve competitions in Chile. There are good players, so there must be no difficulties during the first season. Ah, I forgot to mention it: the currency is always the local one – Chilean peso. The exchange rate is approximately £1=$1000.



Let us see where this adventure takes us.

The following two months in Temuco weren’t exactly the ones the gaucho would like to have. The Mapuche pride and traditions didn’t help the team.

Deportes Temuco – April 2016

Competitions



Actually, this looks like the worst stage at a club I have ever had: out of 7 matches I had 2 draws and 5 losses. Really bad. Obviously, the board wasn’t very happy with me and offered me to resign, which I accepted. There was nothing else to do in Temuco – I had lost everything I could. Only for some mysterious reason the club weren’t relegated: after finishing 16th in the Clausura, they managed to get the goal difference one goal above Barnechea in the Overall Table.

Here is the competition overview:


And here the surprising Overall Table:


So now I am looking forward to finding a new club to work with, let us see if it ends well or also like this.

Cool stuff will be following.

Thank you, you will motivate me to go on even more.

After having been sacked in Chile, I found myself unemployed once more. After having been looking for an employee I found the Uruguayan football season ending, so I tried to apply there. Actually, that was a good idea. So, that was how I got my current job – manager at Rocha F.C.

Rocha F.C. – July 2016

What can we say about Rocha F.C.? Well, they were founded in the 1990s as an attempt to federalise the Uruguayan football. There were a lot of different clubs in the Rocha Department, and they decided to unite and form one single to compete at the national level. That was how Rocha F.C. were founded. Since then, the club have been playing in Primera and Segunda.

Competitions

Rocha F.C. currently play the Campeonato Uruguayo Segunda División. Last year they were 13th, so the expectations are not to struggle for permanence.



Here is a part of our schedule. It is incomplete; we will have some more matches after the season break, in February and further.



Players



Our squad is quite big, we have enough player for rotation and, to sum up, I am quite happy with this squad as I can think of some tactics suiting it.

Good luck with this, shame about the first sacking but hopefully onwards and upwards now!

Thank you! Well, the first sacking is already in the past, now let us concentrate on Rocha.

I have been away from the story for several days, hope you understand me.

Rocha F.C. – October 2016

So, let us continue. We have had some work (if it may be called so) during the pre-season, even if we had two serious matches, our rivals didn’t see them so. So after it we went into the season and we weren’t so brilliant there, however, it was much better then in Chile.

Competitions



Not an ideal start, as I said before, but yet something. Now let us believe that we will convert this into a good go and, maybe, we will reach something even this season. If you are not familiar with the league system, it is like this: the two first teams get direct promotion, while the ones from 3rd to 6th place play a play-off for the third promotion. The last team in accumulated table gets relegated.

Here goes the table:


Players

First of all, let us see our summer transfers:


The club contracted four good players, the four for rotation. However, we were left by Matías Malán – a good first-team player – and it brought some unhappiness to the team. Also we managed to say goodbye to several players I didn’t see in the first team. So, I definitely believe that it was successful.



This is our squad – statistics are provided as for 23/10.

Here we go, thus.