TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
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Episode 1. Welcome to Poland


So everything started one night when i got a call from the chairman of Lech.They said that they want a manager that can bring back the team from the dead and they think that im the right manager for that...I said that i will think about that ( because i was actually sacked from my club 3 weeks ago so that was something unexpected ) but i said to myself.. "you are good manager just accept that offer and bring back Lech to the top" so i bought the first ticket for Poland and the journey started.... !!

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Welcome to Poland-Poznan.


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Poznań is among the oldest cities in Poland and was one of the most important centers in the early Polish state in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The first center city was Ostrów Tumski, the natural island on the Warta river-very similar to the Île de la Cité in Paris. The first rulers were buried in Poznań's cathedral on the island. It also served as the capital for a short time in the 13th century, hence the official name: The capital city of Poznan.

Poznań is one of the biggest cities in Poland. The city population is about 550,000, while the continuous conurbation with Poznan County and several other communities (Oborniki, Skoki, Szamotuły and Śrem) is inhabited by almost 1.1 million people. The Larger Poznań Metropolitan Area (PMA) is inhabited by 1.3-1.4 million people and extends to such satellite towns as Nowy Tomyśl, Gniezno and Wrzesnia, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Poland. It is the historical capital of the Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) region and is currently the administrative capital of the province called Greater Poland Voivodeship. Poznań is today one of the largest Polish centers of trade, industry, sports, education, technology, tourism and culture. It is particularly important academic center, with about 130,000 students and the third biggest Polish university - Adam Mickiewicz University. It is also the residence of the oldest Polish diocese, now being one of the most populous archdioceses in the country.

So i was impressed with the city.It was really cool in Poznan.The atmosphere ...everything was really good..i started looking for a home because i was sure that this was going to be a one hell of a journey with Lech Poznan..also i arranged a meeting with the staff and the players.. so everything was really good at Poland for now.

Also i can't wait until the start of the season...from what i saw in YouTube Lech Poznan have one of the greatest fans and the atmosphere in every game is amazing...

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Episode 2 will be uploaded soon....( also if u have any advices for the story you can share it...because i know that im not that good at storytelling but i will try my best !! )
Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
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Superb start @TheMazzeRunner as always!
TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
358
Thanks @Dan !

Episode 2. The Club and the Stadium.


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The Club

Here we are ! First day at Lech Poznan....and as a first day at Lech i thought i should learn more about my players and the club so i aranged a meeting with my staff and the players.My staff help me a lot here 1st because i don't know polish... and second it was all new for me here...yeah maybe Lech is not doing so good in the last years but this is a really big club so i wanted to learn more and more about the club and about the history of the club...

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As you can see the club have 7 Ekstraklasa leagues titles 5 Polish domestic cups 1 Polish First Division Cup and 1 Polish First Divison North Group Cup.
Also Lech Poznań (Polish pronunciation: [lɛx ˈpɔznaɲ]) is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division. The club is named after Lech, the legendary founder of the Polish nation.


The club was established in 1922 as Lutnia Dębiec, later changing its name several times. From 1933 until 1994, the club was closely linked to Polish State Railways (PKP). As a result, its popular nickname is Kolejorz [kɔˈlɛjɔʂ], which means The Railwayman in local slang. The club's debut in the Polish top division took place in the year 1948. The brightest era of Lech was in the early 1980s and early 1990s. Lech has won the Polish league a total of seven times, most recently in 2015, and is the most popular football club in the Greater Poland region.


The biggest rival of the club is Legia Warszawa and it's our job to overtake them and take the first place in Poland club standings.


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Players-Lech Poznan

It was time to meet the players too.The meeting was at the club stadium Municipal Stadium in Poznań ( or INEA Stadium ) and i was expecting all players but then i learned from my assistant that the half of the players are injured......that was really bad and that half of the players are actually the players from the first eleven.
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And here you can see the injured players:
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This is the full squad and there you can see some really good players... like Karol Linetty , Gergo Lovrencsics , and in my opinion our future star or already the star of the team Dariusz Formella.Our number 1 goalkeeper will be Jasmin Buric but we have to buy a goalkeeper because we have only 2 goalkeepers..and if we manage to get a better one... ( i think that we can try for Denys Boyko from Dnipro) Buric will become 2nd choice.I can't say anything about the defenders but i think that i will be using Kedziora Douglas Arajuuri and Kaminski.... ! Now for the attack ... i will buy a forward because i don't think that with Robak we can win the league....and even if we can.. we just need atleast 1 more striker.


Player Report

In every episode i will show you a report of the players.In this episode we will look the report of Dariusz Formella.

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The Stadium

The Municipal Stadium in Poznań (Polish: Stadion Miejski w Poznaniu, pronounced [ˈstadjɔn ˈmjɛjskʲi]), sometimes called Bułgarska Street Stadium or INEA Stadion [iˈnɛ.a ˈstadjɔn] for sponsorship reasons, is an association football stadium in Poznań, Poland. It has a league capacity of 43,269 (all seated). The stadium was originally built between 1968 and 1980. From its inauguration in August 1980, Lech Poznań has used the ground as its main venue. Since 2010 it has also been used by Warta Poznań.The ground is situated on the street ul. Bułgarska in the southwestern part of the city (Grunwald district).

In the years 2003–2010, the stadium underwent a complete reconstruction, including the building of four new fully covered stands. Currently it is the fifth-largest stadium in Poland (after National Stadium, Silesia Stadium, The Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw and PGE Arena Gdańsk) and third largest in Ekstraklasa (after the latter two).The grand opening after final renovation took place on 20 September 2010, with Sting's Symphonicity Tour concert.
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So that was my first week at the club and everything is really good for now......we will do some really good transfers and we will start our pre-season training camp and the friendly games....but all that in the next episode.... !

Episode 3 will be uploaded soon....( also if u have any advices for the story you can share it...because i know that im not that good at storytelling but i will try my best !! )
Grimnir
16 years ago
2 months ago
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This should be interesting, will be reading
TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
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Thanks @Suffolk Seasider Im sure that it will be more interesting when the season starts.

Episode 3. The Pre-Season and Transfers.


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Pre-Season-Lech Poznan
It was that time when we were supposed to start our preparations for the season and we arranged a training camp in Austria where we were going to train and play 3 friendly games with teams from Poland.Austria was a really nice country with a lot of mountains lakes etc ... but it was amazing how almost every hotel has a football training camp.We were at Lacknerhof Hotel ( i heard that they have the best football camp in Austria ) It was amazing hotel for real...
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In the next day we started our pre-season training...It's a rule... that the pre-season training are supposed to be at high level and to get 100% from the players...and from what i saw in the first day training we were on the right way ... !!

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The players were happy and i was sure that we will have a good season if we train and play like this....
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It was time for the friendly games....we had 7 days before every game for training and also the last friendly games was going to be a Testimonial game of Kotorowski(our 3rd goalkeeper 35 years old ) thats why i said we need a new goalkeeper but for that later...

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As you can see we had actually a good pre-season even great 1:1 draw in the first game was normal because of two reasons...this was my first game as a manager of Lech and the second reason was ...lack of match sharpness...against Katowice we got a good win with 3:1 then managed to beat with 2:0 Unia Swarzedz and in the last friendly we got 3:1 victory against Pogon ( from what i know Pogoin are actually one of the good teams in Poland and i expected a much difficult game but we won with 3:1 and that was the important thing )


Transfers

I wanted to share with you a lot of good transfers BUT when i saw our transfer budget ...i decided to keep that squad and hopefully in the next season to get some good players ... ( our transfer budget is 77,000 ) it is unbelievable that our transfer budget is 77,000 and the expectation is to win Ekstraklasa...i talked to the board and the answer was that the team is capable to win everything in Poland with that squad....


Polish Super Cup
We were ready !! We were ready for that game and thats why we trained hard in that Austria camp...it was time to face for the first time in this season Legia Warszawa for the Polish Super Cup....so the game started .... and i was expecting a really difficult game ... ( but we had an advantage .. the game was at our stadium INEA Stadion and after the 90 minutes ....what can i say ...we played maybe our best game for the season ?

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2:0 victory and the PolishSuperCup was ours..also as i said we have the best fans !!
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Player Report
In this episod we will look the report of our first eleven right back Tomasz Kedziora
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In the next episode you will see our first games from the Ekstraklasa and from the Champions League Qualifications .....Episode 4 will be uploaded soon... !! ( also if u have any advices for the story you can share it...because i know that im not that good at storytelling but i will try my best !! )
TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
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Episode 4.Start Of The Season.First 10 Games !


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So it was that time when the season was going to start ...and we were ready for the challenge..also we were going to play qualification games in the Champions League which was ( good and bad ) it was good because ... it's just the Champions League ... but the bad thing was that we are not that big team to rotate the squad....because our goals are too high ....that means we can't play in the Champions League like in the friendly games and focus on the league ...we were focused in all the competitions.


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The season started and our first game was against Jagiellonia where we got a draw...which wasn't a bad result then we played at our home INEA Stadion and we won our first 3 points in the league against Korona then another victory against Cracovia ....and after that we got 4 draws in a row before the important game against Zaglebie Lubin where we played the perfect game and won with 1:4.When we won with 1:4 i thought we are in the right way and we can fight with Legia for the first place but then we got another draw against Pogon 1:1 which was a disappointing result for us .... in our last game we managed to get important victory against Wisla Krakow....We are playing really good in some games in the others we are playing like Aston Villa ( right now ) ..and this is going to change for the next games when we will face Slask Wroclaw,Gornik Leczna,Nieciecza, the biggest game against Legia and Ruch which is supposed to be an easy game...


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Polish FA Cup

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Like i said...we are focused in every tournament but we are not Barcelona....we lost against Gornik Zabrze which was really bad but...gave us a space to breath before the games from the Ekstraklasa and the Champions League.Next year the Polish FA Cup will be our goal with the league of course !


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The biggest tournament in Europe was going to start and our first game was in the Second Qualifying Round against Levadia after 2 games we managed to get a victory with 6:1 on aggregate...in the next round we faced the Romanian Champions...Steua ( and my favourite team from Romania ) after 2 difficult games we did it... we got the victory on away goals after 1:1 at their Arena Națională which was perfect for us...the goal from the board was to reach the Play-offs and we did it...after the draw we got BATE and for the history we did it... we eliminated BATE after 1:1 away and 2:0 victory at home we did it we were in the Champions League Group Stages.


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We were drawned in group B where we were with Atletico Madrid ( we will stop Saul Niguez haha ) Benfica and Ajax.Difficult group for us ...actually every group was going to be difficult for us because we are just Lech Poznan and after that first game in the group against Benfica (6:1 defeat ) i don't know what to think but ... we will just fight in that group for our place... !!


Player Report
In this episod we will look the report of our first eleven striker Piotr Kubriel.
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In the next episode you will see part 1 from the battle with Legia and also the next games from the Champions League..all that in Episode 5. ( also if u have any advices for the story you can share it...because i know that im not that good at storytelling but i will try my best !! )
Dan
12 years ago
4 months ago
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Strong start @TheMazzeRunner keep it up
TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
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Thanks @Dan .We are doing fine for now but the battle with Legia is difficult because we beat them but we lose our games against bottom half teams which makes the league better and the fight for the title more interesting.

Episode 5.End Of The First Half Of The Season.


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So after our first 10 games we were ready for the next 9 games.The goal was to win most of the games and finish at the 1st place for the winter brake...and that means to play at 100 % in every game....


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The Big Derby Game !


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As i said we played every game at 100% and you can see that...7 wins from 9 games and only 1 defeat was a good run....( actually our run was ended by Podbeskidzie ) so yeah it was good.We took the 3 points from Legia so there was no problem at all.We had easy games against Slask Wroclaw,Nieciecza and Jagiellonia ( we did 1:1 draw when we first played with them so that was important victory ) Only that defeat against Podbeskidzie was the undeserved result
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For the next games we will try to get 5 from 5 to secure the first place for sure.


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League Table.



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Things are different at the Champions League.Yeah we managed to qualify for the group stages but we lost all of our games in the group 6/6.We scored 5 goals from 6 games....but in my opinion it was normal...we had Atleti,Benfica and Ajax in our group it was just a dream qualifying for the next round... a dream that we will try to make real next year...but for now we will focus in the league games...


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Simeone for Lech..!


Player Report
In this episod we will look the report of our first eleven midfielder Karol Linetty.

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In the next episode you will see the start of the second half of the season and the important games for the league title.... !!!
TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
358
Second Half Of The Season Starts Today !!!! Be Ready The Story Continues .


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TheMazzeRunner
9 years ago
7 years ago
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Hey.....i know i said ill continue the Lech Poznan career but for now this career is on pause........because the EURO 2016 is coming soon ( 5 days ) so...im thinking of starting a national team career just for Euro 2016 ..... ! I hope it will be interesting for all of you ... and it will be something new...also ill try to do it like a story telling ..!!! Expect the series to start soon .... ! Also for that career it will continue but for now my focus is on the National Team Career ...and the team is a suprise... i can give u a joker too ( they managed to qualify for Euro 2016 in the last moment in a dramatic way ) !!!

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