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To kick us off in our final stretch of the season I’m offered and sign a contract extension. Despite the players not backing me the board certainly do.



Our first game of October saw us win 3-1 at home to Deportivo Nublense in a game we absolutely dominated



This win was followed up with another big victory, this one over Deportes Melpilla. Our promotion hunt is most definitely still on.



With 2 games to go we’re behind Cobresal by 1 point, and we play them on the final day



Our penultimate game saw us win a closely fought game 1-0 away to Deportes Magallanes whilst Cobresal got beat 3-0 to put us top of the league by 2 points.





So here we are, the final game of the season against our local rivals. If we avoid defeat we go up as champions, if we lose Cobresal go up as champs and we settle for a play off spot.







I am quite happy with how this season has gone, and I definitely think proves to the players I am the man for the job. Next season will all be about staying in the league. I can’t see myself getting a job at any of the current eligible clubs for this challenge next season so I’m going all in to make sure Cobreloa are competitive and we have a good showing next season.

Speaking of the challenge, lets take a look at the Copa Libertadores. From the groups stages a couple of possible eligible teams progressed if any came runners up, however only Defensor Sporting of the potential eligible teams progressed all the way to the final.



In the final are Santos of Brazil and Defensor Sporting of Uruguay. Santos have won this competition multiple times and this is Defensor’s first appearance. If Santos win this over the 2 legs, Defensor become eligible.

First leg:



Second leg:



Rounding out this update is something that will definitely help me get other jobs for the eligible teams as I am named manager of the year for the second division. Not being big headed but this was never in doubt as we were clearly the best team over the year, despite some poor form here and there.



Next update will be our pre season leading up to our first season in the top division, a quick look at how the CONCACAF Champions league is looking, our first round of games in the new season and anything else of note. There are some interesting teams eligible for this challenge that I can't wait to manage but if I'm being realistic, only the Chilean sides Universidad Espanola & Universidad Catolica, and possibly the Peruvian teams Universitario & Sporting Cristal would be my next stop, that's IF I have a good season next year with Cabreloa. If not, as noted above the only possible way back into the challenge would be either with the Panama national team, or if Ecuador or Venezuela got to the Copa America or Confederations cup final and lost, or if Sae Caetano get a bunch of back to back promotions . However I'm always optimistic and confident I can have a good showing next season.

Thanks for reading!

Things are going well in Finland mate, looks like the league is yours to lose. Keep it up!

Kicking off this update sees us take on Cobresal, who are coincidentally our affiliated team as well as our local rivals. Things couldn’t have gone any better for us as they had a man sent off early on however we missed a penalty but buried the rebound. We did concede an equaliser but by the end of the game we were 4-2 winners



Straight after that game an offer was made for Jose Silva which I rejected, the team kicked off so he was transfer listed and put in the reserves. Clearly the team are doing what they can to make it known I’m not liked









After that we’re in the cup against Deportes Antofagasta who have a number of first team players out, so hopefully this can give us an edge in this game.



Or not. We do have the second leg to play maybe we can make that count



Jose Silva gets his move and we get 10k for him. I’m disappointed as he was playing well, but whatever we move on



We do win the second leg of the cup game with a late goal to put us into the next round which we’re drawn against Deportes Iquique who play in the top division.





The quality definitely showed as we were battered 3-0 by them, and this tie was over despite our 1-0 victory in the second leg.





That’s June over with and to greet us at the end of the month is the news striker Lucas Simon has damaged ligaments and is out for around 8 months. His season is over and puts a dent in our promotion hopes.






2 games in July and we win them both, first 1-0 over Coquimbo Unido & then 3-1 away to Union San Felipe







A great 5-1 victory over Deportes Capiapo started off our August before a news report saying Rampla Juniors are after 1 of my first teamers Firpo.





Lies I tell you, lies!



I offer a contract of my own seeing as how my DOF hasn’t. Ahh well. He’s dropped



Back to back 1-0 victories over Rangers & Santiago Wanderers kept our good form going before another big win over Deporte Puerto Montt ensured a perfect August for us










Despite the good form we went down 1-0 away to Deportes Valdivia and this could’ve been a lot worse as we were held on and never looked like getting anything out of this game



To follow up that loss, we got FM’d big time in our game against Deportes La Serena. We just couldn’t get the break through and they had 1 shot and got 1 goal. Frustration at the highest level!





We did manage to get a victory over Barnechea, before a draw with Santiago Morning and another big win over San Marcos to keep us top of the league at the end of August.









We’ve got 4 games to go in the league and promotion is still up for grabs. Despite the form the team’s support for me is still low, however I’m confident of staying here at least until the end of the season.

Next update will be the final games of the season, if we got promoted and a look at how the Copa Libertadroes ended.

Thanks for reading.

Cheers man, can see why this team is favourites for promotion.

Everything seems in place at IFK Malmo to absolutely walk this division, good luck man!

Just catching up, good luck in Finland, that's 1 country I've never managed in all my time playing CM / FM. AM sure you'll fill up that trophy count in no time there

Here is the start of my journey for redemption. The northern town of Calama and the team Colebra. A young team only founded in 1977 they certainly have had some good times, reaching back to back Copa Libertadores finals only to fall short, this is the reason I am here. As well as those finals this club has also won the top division of Chilean football 8 times as well as a singular Chile cup to their name. Not quite a downfall however the club finds itself in the second tier of Chilean football, and in the short term it is my aim to get us out of this league. As a first time manager, I have absolutely no reputation to speak off, because of this the margin for error is going to be very, very small. however I like to look at the positive side of everything so this is definitely a chance to prove myself.









Pre season odds sees us finishing second, and with that in mind i make no additional signings to the team I inherit from the clubs previous manager. Another thing I notice is this club is in dire financial straits, so first team signings won't happen unless absolutley necesscary.

February - March 2018

My first game in charge and a chance to get rid of any nerves in my system and check out my new team in competitive action.

We ran out 1-0 winners in a game we absolutely dominated. If this is a sign of things to come then this season may just turn out alright.





That first win was followed up by back to back wins against Deportes Capiapo & San Felipe in games we looked pretty good and the results were well deserved.





The wins kept on coming as we saw back to back to back 2-1 victories over Rangers de Talca, Santiago Wanderers & Deportes Puerto Montt. The Wanderers result was pivotal as they were once upon a time the big team here in Chile and have fallen on hard times recently and are also promotion favourites, so a win against a challenger early on is always good and puts the league on notice.







Despite us being undefeated the squad clearly don't like me as their manager. Well sorry lads but I'm the manager and I'm here to stay, for now at least.





Despite the squad not liking me, we recorded our biggest win so far as we played Deportes Valdivia off the park in a resounding 6-0 home victory. A complete performance and another reason why we're considered promotion favourites.



Rounding out my first 2 months here we finished March off with a 2-1 away over Deportes La Serena. Despite going down early on we managed to dig deep and come away with all 3 points.

April 2018

April kicked off with our first loss of the season, 2-1 at home to AC Barnechea. That poor result was followed up with another poor result as we lost 2-0 away to Santiago Morning. With those losses hopefully this doesn't turn into something that could hamper our promotion challenge.





Next up was the 1st leg of our 1st round cup game against lower league Deportes Recoleta. We laboured to a 0-0 in a boring game.



Back in the league we threw away a 3-1 lead late on to draw 3-3 away to Deportivo Nublense. Not the best form at the minute hopefully this is us getting our bad patch out the way early on.



We finished April off top of the league despite those poor results. Definitely something to work on






2nd leg of the cup game now and during the game I noticed Recoleta were playing hipster football in the form of a striker less formation. It definitely hindered us as we struggle to overcome their midfield and only just scraped a 1-0 win to put us into the next round against Deportes Antofagasta who are in the same league as us.







Once again I'm asked about the low level of support I have from my team, and once again I say I'm confident of staying here despite this. Whilst we've not played too well the last few weeks, we are still at the right end of the league and looking good value.



To finish off a quiet month of May we recorded back to back victories over Deportes Magallanes and Melpilla which keeps us at the top of the league with a slim 2 point cushion.









As we're top of the league the board are happy with me and I am very secure at the minute.



Rounding off this update are 2 points I'd like to make regarding this challenge. First is Sae Caetano are actually eligible for me, however they currently reside in the lower leagues of Brazilian football, and barring back to back to back to back to back to back to back (I think) promotions they won't be playable for a while.



Also I'm going to include the Confederations Cup in this challenge for national teams as well. Reason is Chile are the current runners up in game so they become eligible straight from the off. The original challenge actually has the World Cup runners up included, however as I only have North and South American nations loaded, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary aren't playable in my game, so unless any South American teams other than Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay get to the World Cup final and lose I won't bother including that.

Food for thought now as my first few months here have been good, however the team clearly don't like or respect me. If I don't see out this season, the only way back in terms of this challenge would be the Panama national job due to the reputation. I'm optimistic that I will win the players round and continue our good form.

As always thanks for reading, it is appreciated

So in my enthusiasm to get started I made a small oversight. It turns out that Mexican teams aren't in the COPA Libertadores any more so I've removed Cruz Azul & Guadalajara from this challenge as they won't ever get into the Libertadores in game. Tigres are still eligible for the CONCACAF Champions League.

As for the game itself, I haven't had much time over the festive period but I have managed to get a few months played,I will get an update up later today or tomorrow. Thanks for reading.

Cheers man, glad to have you on board!

Yeah there's some cracking reads there man. But I like the people on this forum and there's generally a good level of interaction on here.

What's Susie? Not been on there or hears it before, my FM forum experience is literally this and the SI forums.

His threads are the inspiration for this

After having a bug with my hall of fame save, and finding a bug in the add on leagues for my second attempt at a career to post, I've decided to go with something diferent, and no added databases for this 1. Third time lucky and all that.

I take absolutely zero credit for the idea behind this save, I have added some 'extras' into it though. The idea came from some great reads from a user over on the SI Forums, not sure if I'm okay to post the thread or the user here, I have spoken to him and got his blessing to post this here though. The threads are about the 'nearly men' of football, as in the runners up of the Champions Leagues as he takes those teams and attempts to win the Champions League with them,. He's done it in Europe and currently Africa, however my idea takes place in North & South America. So without further ado, let's get into it.

The Copa Libertadores is the South American equivalent of the UEFA Champions League and since it's inception the Libertadores has seen many winners from the South American teams, and more recently Mexican sides. It has also seen 18 teams get to the final but come up short. The CONCACAF Champions League is the North American version of our Champions League, it used to be in a cup format before changing to mimic our own version and has been dominated by Mexican teams, with 22 teams getting to the final and leaving as the losing side. I am including teams from the previous format of the CONCACAF Champions League for this challenge.

This thread is about those teams who have got to the final and ended up losing.

Housekeeping first. I'm only using leagues that come with the 'vanilla' version of the game, so no added leagues. Due to this, there are some teams that I can't manage, such as teams from Ecuador, Paraguay and so on. The reason for this is I've not had much luck using databases created in the editor recently, that's not a knock against the guys using their own time to make them, it's just I've not been that lucky and encountered game breaking issues.

At the start of the game, the following playable teams have got to the final of the Copa Libertadores and failed to win it:

1985, 1986, 1987, 1996 America de Cali (Colombia)
1978, 1999 Deportivo Cali (Colombia)
1981, 1982 Cobreloa (Chile)
1988, 1992 Newell's Old Boys (Argentina)
1972 Universitaro de Deportes (Peru)
1975 Union Espanola (Chile)
1993 Universidad Catolica (Chile)
1997 Sporting Cristal (Peru)
2001 Cruz Azul (Mexico) Not eligible for this part of the challenge
2002 Sao Caetano (Brazil)
2005 Atletico Paranaense (Brazil)
2008 Fluminense (Brazil)
2010 Guadalajara (Mexico) Not eligible for this part of the challenge
2015 Tigres UANL (Mexico) Not eligible for this part of the challenge
2017 Lanus (Argentina)
2018 Defensor Sporting (Uruguay) Became eligible in game

Also at the start of the game, the below teams have got to the CONCACAF Champions League final and left as the losing team:

1978 Leones Negros (Mexico) This final was cancelled in real life, so that's why Leones are eligible
2002, 2003 Morelia (Mexico)
2012, 2013 Santos Laguna (Mexico)
2016, 2017 Tigres UNAL (Mexico)
1993 Club Leon (Mexico)
2011 Real Salt Lake (USA)
2014 Deportivo Toluca (Mexico)
2015 Montreal Impact (USA)
2018 Toronto (USA)

The aim for this save is to win the competition the above teams failed to win. If any of the above teams win the Libertadores or CONCACAF Champions League they are removed form the challenge. Likewise if any other team, as in not listed above gets to the final of any of the competitions and fails to win it, they become eligible. I had intended to include the Copa Sudamericana as well, however that would bring the eligible teams at the start up to 35, and no way I'd manage to get all those in.

There are no set in stone rules for this save, I just want to have fun and try and do in game what the above teams couldn't in real life. However the only thing I am putting in place is if I win the Libertadores or Champions League I must leave that team. I am allowing myself to leave a team at my own free will but ONLY to an eligible team or nation (see below). There are a total of 22 eligible club teams at the start of the game and I'm expecting some of those to win the competition in game and others to become eligible. I'll be as realistic as possible, I probably won't even manage all of these teams but I'll give it a good go.

As a 'bonus' challenge, in it's current format the CONCACAF Gold Cup (since 1991) has seen Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica & Panama get to the final only to lose. I will include those nations in the game set up to make sure I can manage them. Likewise if any other North American nation becomes eligible they will be included if they are playable. The South American equivalent the Copa America there are no eligible teams as all who had got to a final have also won it. Ecuador & Venezuela haven't got to a final in real life, however if they do in game, they become eligible.





To make this challenge as realistic as possible, I am going to start with the lowest rep team that is playable from the start. Note my above comment that I am allowing myself to move on before winning the Libertadores, but only to another eligible team.

Hailing from the bright lights of Mexico City, Santiago Nunez sets out on a journey of epic proportions, so grab some popcorn, get comfy because all being well, this is going to be 1 hell of a ride.

The flight from Mexico City to Calama in Chile is a long one, but we're on our way.....



Vamos a hacer un viaje, hombre

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.

Good going there mate, and the next 3 games are definitely winnable.

Not the best month but certainly could've been worse. Time to dig in and get some more results on the board so you're not dragged further down the league.

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.

Oh yeah I remember he had to wipe his laptop, however the SI guys have said this issue I have raised is the first time they've seen it so I;m hopeful of it being sorted. Hope you check out my new thread man.

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.

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

Cheers mate.



Me too man!

To say I'm gutted would be an understatement, but generally I don't let things bother me too much so it is what it is, hopefully the SI guys and detect and fix the issues as I was really enjoying this ave, quite a lot actually.

I do have an idea in mind for another save which I'm having a play around with so hopefully I'll get the start of that up soon. Thanks again for the support guys, much appreciated!

Well a little bit of disappointing news. I have played a couple of months of this save and had wanted to get an update up today, but after updating FM19 to the new version for some unknown reason the game crashes and gives me a crash dump every time, right before a Europa League game, so no update will be coming.

I have logged this over at the SI bugs forum, I have updated windows, my Nvidia and graphics drivers, verified the game files and still the game crashes. They are looking into it but say it may not be sorted until the new year, they also said my issue is the only time that specific problem has been raised. As well as that they said the likelihood of this issue arising on a new save is very low, so with that being said I can't continue on this save in FM19 for the time being. I am however going to be starting a new career to keep me going until they sort out this error which I will post on here too.

Thanks for reading. Hopefully it won't be too much longer before I am back on this save.

Hopefully those 2 home games in November can get you 6 points to keep you at the right end of the league man.

I would say a decent season, the 5th place finish is where we were expected to finish anyway, but the cup win and good Europa run definitely makes up for it. Will see what the new season brings.

Another trophy win is always a good thing man, keep it up

Devastated for you mate. Will definitely follow your next thread.

Great result with the league and cup double! Next stop the Premiership! Good luck.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!



Will it be this 1 again or something completely different bro?

Good cup runs with a decent enough league position so far man. Looking positive.

Good luck at the Olympics.

Lokomotiva Zagreb 2024/2025 season update

We kicked off the final month of our season away to Gorica who we beat 2-0 in a good performance.



Due to our Europa League exploits this next game against Gorica was a rearranged game meaning we played them twice in a row, and recorded back to back victories over them with the second definitely a better result than the first.



3 wins from 3 now as we managed a 1-0 win over rivals Hadjuk despite absolutely dominating the game. Better late than never as we managed to get a late goal and hold on for all 3 points.



Confirmation Dinamo have yet again won the league.



Back to back 0-0 draws now as we were the worse team against Istra in a game they could’ve scored at least 4, and Dinamo could count themselves lucky as we had the best chances against them, but it wasn’t meant to be as we drew.





Game number 100 for as Lokomotiva manager. Hopefully a good performance….



Oh well. We finish the season off with a loss and finish the season in 5th, 2 places lower than our finish of 3rd last year. We’ve got to pick ourselves up as we’ve got 1 final game to go, and it’s the cup final against Rijeka.







Man United beat our conquerors Schalke in the final of the Europa League, we were also confirmed as the over achievers in this years competition.







So here we go then, a second final for me and the club in a row, can we repeat and win it again?


At the half we just about edge it going in 2-1 up. A pretty even if nervy game it was definitely all the play for in the second half but wasn’t plain sailing by any means. They equalised early in the second and it was end to end from there. Luckily we had just enough in the tank to grab a late goal as Gimenez popped up in the right place at the right time to secure a monumental victory for us.

















So that brings an end to my second season in Croatia. It’s been a good season, that was kicked off with the sueprcup win, we had a great Europa League run, alright so the 5th placed finish could be seen as a worse result than our 3rd place last season, however I’d counter that by saying the Europe League on it’s was worth the 2 places lower.

To close out this update I’ve signed a 1 year extension to my deal. I feel that I can stay here at least 1 more season, if for no other reason than to see if we can replicate the Europa League run.



Next update will be end of season stuff, our pre season preparations and the start of the new season. Thanks for reading.

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Career progress:
2018 - 19 | ARC Oleiros (Portugal) -- Finished 1st in Campeonato de Portugal, won the playoffs, promoted.
2019 - 20 | ARC Oleiros (Portugal) -- Finished 10th in Liga Pro, the clubs highest ever finish
2020 - 21 | ARC Oleiros (Portugal) -- Finished 11th in Liga Pro, resigned at end of season
2021 - 22 | Wisla Plock (Poland) -- Finished 1st in Division 1, champions, promoted
2022 - 23 | Wisla Plock (Poland) -- Finished 12th in Ekstraklaka. Nearly sacked a few times
2023 - 24 | Lokomotiva Zagreb (Croatia) – 3rd in the league, cup winners. Manager of the year
2024 - 25 | Lokomotiva Zagreb (Croatia) – 5th in the league, supercup & cup winners, knocked out in the Quarter final of the Europa League

Lokomotiva Zagreb 2024/2025 season update

A nice start to April as I am once again awarded the Portuguese best national manager award. A nice little boost to my rep I hope.



We’re in league action first off this month and ran out very confident 2-0 winners over Varazdin. Happy as we’re going into the Europa League game with Schalke on the back of a win



The game with Schalke wasn’t what I expected. I wanted a good defensive showing and what we got was both teams going all out for the win. The talking point for me was that at 1 point we were 3-1 up and I thought we’d see it through, however it wasn’t meant to be. They pulled one back and we held on to the 3-2 advantage right until the end of stoppage time when they took advantage of some sloppy defending from us. Before the game I’d have taken a score draw but to be 3-1 up and leaving the game with a 3-3 draw hurts a bit. It does look like we can beat this team and at home you never know what could happen. Still I’m happy.



In the league we managed a 1-1 draw at home to Sesvete. They were definitely the better team and we were lucky to snatch a draw late on.



Return leg of the Europa League and we went in looking to build on the 3-3 but early on they took the lead to make 3-4 on aggregate. As we pushed on for an equaliser they added another to make it 3-5 on aggregate and pretty much kill the tie. Right on half time they added another to finish this game off. We did manage to make it 4-2 by the end of the game but this is it, our Europa League dream is over.





We did brilliantly to get as far as we did. We were never expected to even make the group stages so there is definitely something to be proud of. Back to the league next and we definitely looked like we were fatigued from the Schalke game as we went down 2-1 away to Osijek. We dominated possession but couldn’t make it count.



The poor results continued as Sibenik put 3 passed us to take all 3 points in front of own fans. The game was effectively over after 28 minutes as they were 3 up and sat back and soaked up the pressure from there. We pulled 1 back shortly after their third but it didn’t matter.



To round out the month of April we were held to a 2-2 draw away to Rijeka. Despite being 1-0 up when they went down to 10 men and then going on to add a second, they pulled it back to 2 all and we even missed a penalty.







I’m glad April is over as 1 win. 3 draws and 3 losses isn’t good. We do have the cup final to look forward to at the end of the season however we’ve got the final 6 league games to go before then.

Next update will be May’s games, the cup final and end of season stuff. Thanks for reading.

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Career progress:
2018 - 19 | ARC Oleiros (Portugal) -- Finished 1st in Campeonato de Portugal, won the playoffs, promoted.
2019 - 20 | ARC Oleiros (Portugal) -- Finished 10th in Liga Pro, the clubs highest ever finish
2020 - 21 | ARC Oleiros (Portugal) -- Finished 11th in Liga Pro, resigned at end of season
2021 - 22 | Wisla Plock (Poland) -- Finished 1st in Division 1, champions, promoted
2022 - 23 | Wisla Plock (Poland) -- Finished 12th in Ekstraklaka. Nearly sacked a few times
2023 - 24 | Lokomotiva Zagreb (Croatia) – 3rd in the league, cup winners. Manager of the year
2024 - 25 | Lokomotiva Zagreb (Croatia) – in progress