Battle Inside The Coliseum
The odd tournament continues.
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Battle Inside The Coliseum
We weren’t exactly dodging lions in the Coliseum. Instead, we were playing Stanford.
And we did pretty well.
All César Aldana managed to do was score 4 goals before 60 minutes were up. I took him out for a substitute to make sure he didn’t get injured or excessively tired before our next match.
Daryl Daley, one of our wingers, wound up winning the Player of the Match award. It makes no sense, since Aldana managed to score 4 goals, and Daley only had 3 assists. I guess we’ll let Daryl win it. After all, Aldana got that award in our last match.
César Aldana
Introducing players to you that I barely know myself is kind of an awkward task. But here goes.
Aldana is clearly the star player of our squad. At 26 years old, the Guatemalan is an obvious star, and has been scoring goals for fun.
The interesting thing about Aldana is that he’s a born leader, which marks the second save in a row that I’ve had a computer generated born leader show up on my squad. The born leader personality is good if you want somebody with clubhouse clout. However, it’s not that great if you place a premium on professionalism ratings like I do.
Aldana’s good at everything other than his determination. We haven’t seen that come up quite yet, though.
Darren Silvas
Since we’ve got quite a few players to introduce, I’ll go through a few every day.
Darren Silvas is another one of our stars. Silvas hails from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, a small town of under 40,000 people that doesn’t exactly scream “superstar defensive midfielder” to you.
Silvas is 27 years old and is considered to be a star player. I don’t think his $1,100 per week salary is commiserate with that “star player” status, though. He could probably make more money on Substack if he put his mind to it.
Anyway, Silvas is also hindered by poor determination, which also typifies his personality.
That’s right — I forgot to mention that it’s nigh until impossible to sign players in this save. We’re limited to 4 signings per year, and work permits are only granted for players with a potential ability of 200, which is beyond world class. In other words, we’re playing what we get regardless of determination or unprofessionalism or inconsistency or any of that stuff.
It’s going to be an interesting project.
Tournament Final
Our next match is going to be pretty anticlimactic. Instead of playing USC or some other famous California team, we’re playing against… Kansas State.
We’re playing over in SoFi Stadium, which is the new home of the Los Angeles Rams. It’s not a bad stadium, but I’d say that the LA Coliseum would have been a more proper backdrop for this one.
This is one of those places where Football Manager really confuses me. Stanford couldn’t sell even half the tickets at the LA Coliseum, but Kanasas State and BYU are going to sell out SoFi Stadium? I’ve got a feeling that the editor data file isn’t to blame this time around.
The other really bizarre thing is that we’re favored to win, which makes little sense to me. Sure, Kansas State is in the American Athletic Conference — and I hear see all of my Kansas readers gasping in horror as I write those words. But, seriously, what do the writers see in this team? Aside from a really good Guatemalan striker, we’ve got a lot of holes.
Surely we’ll lose, right?