A Slavic love story. We're on a journey, man.

If there's 1 thing we've all got it's heritage and people from Slavic countries are no different. This is the journey of a very humble Pawel Glazewski as he travels from his home town of Wroclaw in Poland to become a football manager

As the title of this thread suggests, this is all about Pawel travelling around the various Slavic countries and trying to make a name for himself. As a failed Sunday league player with no coaching badges but a lot of desire, grit and above all else determination, Pawel is dead set on making it as a manager. But where does love fit into all this? Well there's 4 thing in life Pawel loves, the first being football itself. The second is the team he has supported since he was a boy Slask Wroclaw. The third is the team his Russian father supported Lokomotiv Moscow. Fourth and final love of his life is his second team Partizan Belgrade who he has followed ever since a holiday in Serbia saw him go to a Partizan game.

Without forgetting his Polish roots, Pawel intends to instil the same grit, determination and hard work into each of his teams whilst staying rue to the Polish football philosophy of a sturdy defence, industrial midfield and a tenacious attack.

Thanks to Claasen's Euro add ons the following leagues and set up are as follows from the start:


I know that there are more Slavic nations however I hadn't included Bosnia as I don't have any badges for Bosnian teams and I don't like playing as a team without their badge. Slovakia I intend to add as playable after season 1 or 2, as I will be removing the 4th level of Ukraine at the end of season 1 (see objectives) as well as any league I have managed in as I intend to try and keep the game speed going at a reasonable rate. The 'big' European leagues are view only for now.

Manager profile at the start:



The aim is to travel to as many Slavic countries as possible, and stick to a tactical style of 4-1-4-1 as I want to instil the same style & mentality at each team I manage. As for personal aims I want to manage, in no particular order the following teams:

Slask Wroclaw - A must
Lokomotiv Moscow - A must
Partizan Belgrade - A must
Lokomotiv Sofia
Dnipro. They start in the 4th amateur division and are overwhelming favourites to get out of that league at the first attempt. If they do I will remove that league at the end of the first season. I'd actually love to try and restore that team, however I want to start unemployed and see if the opportunity arises.
Viktoria Plzen
Hadjuk Split
Maribor

As for competitions, I have no aims in that respect. I just want to play the game and see where I get to. If I get a decent enough rep, and feel I have managed in enough of the Slavic countries I may add 1 of the big leagues and see how far I can go. As long as I can taste at least half of the Slavic countries loaded from the start I'd be happy. Also international management I've decided is a must as well, so the following nations I'd definitely like to take over at some point:

Poland
Russia
Serbia

This is the story of a man from Wroclaw, with big ambitions, big determination and a big desire to stick to his Slavic roots. He has promised himself he'll stay true to his roots, to his heritage and to himself. Unlike players in the modern game who have no loyalty, he has nothing but loyalty to his Slavic heritage. He knows Slask is a million miles away from ever being a reality, so if he must leave Wroclaw to achieve his dreams of being a football manager then so be it.

Wróćmy do podróży, człowieku

Good luck with the save, can't wait for it. Would be very interesting if he got to manage his native Poland one day.

Cheers mate, glad you're on board. I'd love to get the Poland national job and get them to a world cup, but we'll see.

Here we go then, the start of another new journey.

I set out to apply for all jobs I see as realistic, and have applied for the following jobs:

Ursus Warsaw in Poland



Polet & Cement in Serbia





Real Pharma in Ukraine



Dinamo Stavropol in Russia



Grad & Sava in Slovenia





After a couple of days the Sava, Polet & Cement board return to me saying I haven’t even made the shortlist, unsurprising really as I am a literal nobody in the world of football at the minute







I do however get interview requests from Real Pharma, Dinamo Stavropol, Ursus Warsaw & Grad. I attend all the interviews.









A day passes and the phone rings, it’s the chairman of Dinamo Stavropol.

‘Pawel, thanks for your time yesterday, I’ll keep it short and sweet. It’s a no I’m afraid. Long story short, there’s a more suitable candidate, a Russian chap, maybe we’ll meet again.’



That was that. Oh well, I’ll show them! As for the remaining interviews I attended, all 3 teams are interesting propositions. Ursus in my native Poland are languishing in the 4th tier, Real Pharma are looking like being relegation fodder in Ukraine’s 4th tier and Grad are a mid table third tier team in Slovenia. There’s definitely some hard work ahead at any of these teams, that’s if I even get a job offer from any of these.

3 days pass by and nothing. Then at 9.18 on the Friday morning the phone rang. A voice on the other said 3 words, and 3 words only ‘Pawel, save us’


Next update will be who we signed and the first few games of this career.

Thanks for reading!

No to ruszamy. Początek czegoś dobrego.

Very unique save idea! Love it though. Looking forward to seeing some lesser known countries being played in! Slovenia is a beautiful country so look forward to when you get there!

Well another bad post. Not having much luck with FM 19 recently as I have now discovered a game breaking glitch / bug with the added in leagues so this save is now moved to the what could've been pile

Back to the drawing board for me.