A Tale of Passion and Folly in the Heart of Italy

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Davelklatzen

10 years ago

3 months ago

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21 May 2016 13:18:59

Taken From Wikipedia:

Castel di Sangro Calcio is an Italian association football club from Castel di Sangro in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo. They play in Promozione. Their moment of greatness came in 1996, when they were promoted to Serie B, a noteworthy accomplishment for a team coming from a town of only 5,500 residents. Even greater, they were able to survive in that league another year. The story of their first season in Serie B is chronicled in the book The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss. The team played at the 7,220 seat Stadio Teofilo Patini in Castel di Sangro. The team's colours are red and yellow.

After reading the Joe McGinnuss book when I was younger, and a young FM/CM fanatic, I spent many a year trying (and sometimes failing) to bring the glory days back to the 6,000 strong community of Castel di Sangro. This is my first attempt in a number of years thanks to the league expansion (the first year I have played around with them.

This is my story

Grimnir

18 years ago

2 weeks ago

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21 May 2016 13:34:22

Looking forward to this, have always wanted to manage in the lower leagues of Italy but I've never gotten around to it.

Davelklatzen

10 years ago

3 months ago

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23 May 2016 15:34:21

First things first, lets take a look at the squad and highlight a few stand out players that I hope I can hang on to (oh the joys of amateur contracts)

Here is the formation I would like to play. I would like to take advantage of my strength at AMC and ST, the three main guys that will be rotating are also included

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/rLC8lGYhyHT3E0yGsY2yvnI3DAfJ5Tf5m6KtKrbx.jpg

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/5IWUAijENvun2Jnl7C5NVI7HgTDfBLMu4b641tIa.jpg

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/lvTAnnGrhPLEq0J0YxdlfaSoUCdv1Vk4IzTjVJwV.jpg

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/DgGdF3xsYswmm8z8y9BBZtUifjYrymsIzRObadj2.jpg

I do need to bring in a natural DMC though just to sure up the back and haven't decided on my instructions just yet but I will play around in the pre season and be back soon with an update

Also what's the best way to include pictures on here?

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