Current Year: 2024 Current Club: None Year Written to: 2019
HoF Stats: Nationality (Welsh) - 1st Score - 230
(Please note that my accomplishments at my first club: Shanghai Shenhua, are not recorded on the HoF, because of a computer issue where I backed up my save, but not my Hall of Fame file.)
My Youtube channel (no FM, but perhaps in the future, and a lot of gaming)
http://www.youtube.com/Matsudiro
Prologue
HoF Stats: Nationality (Welsh) - 1st Score - 230
(Please note that my accomplishments at my first club: Shanghai Shenhua, are not recorded on the HoF, because of a computer issue where I backed up my save, but not my Hall of Fame file.)
My Youtube channel (no FM, but perhaps in the future, and a lot of gaming)
http://www.youtube.com/Matsudiro
Prologue
My professional footballing career came to a sudden end due to a tragic car accident. I had been enjoying a largely successful youth spell with Wrexham as a goalkeeper to pay the bills. I knew I had to find something else to do, but I wanted to stay in the sport. My first non-playing role in the industry was as the agent of Mr. Nicolas Anelka. I don't know how I talked myself into that role, it seams like forever ago now.
During my time with Anelka, I met the staff at Shanghai Shenhua. I found it to be an enthrawling club, the atmosphere around the camp (and yes, at the time it was just a camp, as the Hongkou Stadium was being renovated) was very positive and it seamed like a very close knit and unbreakable staff team.
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Of cource what kind of football manager story would this be if the group didnt fall apart. (mwahahaha) Jean Tigera's speradic personality ment that he disepeared for months on end in pre-season so the board decided it was time for a change. Desperate and needing leadership at their fall from grace, they picked the only guy in the camp who couldn't speak chinese. That's right... Anelka. But then later when he actually wanted to play some football, they picked me.
July 2011 - November 2016
Alright, now that the "storytelling" is out of the way, lets get down to the FM! I'm going to semi-blaze through my "Journey so far" because I have little to no screenshots to prove the little details, like my issues with Anelka and Joel Griffiths' unreasonable wage demands, and top scorers of the 2010s. What I can show is that my favorite team, Liverpool, finnally won a PL title, yay.
As for my accomplishments at Shenhua, they are as follows: Chinese FA Cup (2013 and 2015), Chinese FA Cup Runners Up (2011), Chinese Super Cup (2016), Chinese Super Cup Losers (2014), Chinese Super League 3rd Placed (2016), Asian Champions League Runners Up (2016), *Chinese Manager of the Year* (2016).
I also had a VERY unsuccesfull spell as the Manager of the Chinese u19s, VERY unsuccessful, as with my first senior international job, which will come later, we won't discuss this in detail.
During my time in China, I gained a little experience in Chinese football. Guangzhou are unplayable, five and a half years of the Chinese Super League being active, and they won it five years. They don't seam too hard when played in induvidual matches but their longevity is insane. Go up against them at the tail end of the season, as I had to in 3 cup finals, and don't expect to win without a fight. During my time at Shenhua, they became the first Chinese team to reach the Asian Champions League finals since it's AFC reformation. The second team... were Guangzhou... in that same year. So yea, I was in no mood for an all Chinese final, and even the mighty regen striker, Jure Struna, was unable to save us from the thrashing in Korea, we were destined for.
I had restablized the economy of Shenhua, and even put in youth enhancements and a whole new staffing team, a system where the assistant manager was also the captain, RL Shanghai local Yu Tao, who created a masterful link from the management to the players... it was time to leave. I took no pleasure in terminating my five year contract which still had four years left on it but my plane trip back to the british isles was very pleasent and my home sickness was coming to an end.
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