SL Benfica - Seeking the success of the 60s, again!

SL Benfica - Seeking the success of the 60s, again!

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Introduction

Hi guys, thanks for reading me out. This is the first time I write a FM story, so take it easy please! My name is Pedro, I'm a professional musician, and I've been playing Football Manager since it's very first release. My gaming experience goes back until Championship Manager 97/98 or even before, but at least I remember that one pretty much well.

About the story

The story is based on my managing experience of SL Benfica, the team which I support since I was 3 years old. They have failed for quiet a few years to please the supporters with trophies. So, I believe it's time to put my team back within the success they achieved back onto 1960 with Eusébio on it.
I will use some real facts to write down at least the first chapters.
Enjoy and thanks in advance for reading up.

Welcome and good luck. Benfica have always been an interesting club to me. Hopefully you recreate the glory days

Jesus in trouble following defeats

SL Benfica manager Jorge Jesus, is being targeted by the club supporters following the bad results achieved by the team in their last games. The 59 year-old talented manager has been on charge at SL Benfica since 2009/2010, and led the "Águias" to excellent performances, and back onto a final of European competitions. Even though, that seems not enough, as the fans demand a fresh new manager, as they regard Jesus era to had to come to an end.

Benfica's incredible campaign this season had an abrupt ending. The club lost 2-1 at Estádio do Dragão against FC Porto, at a Liga Zon Sagres match, with a later goal conceded at 90+2 scored by FC Porto brazilian winger Kelvin, costing the club to being relegated to 2nd position in competition with just one fixture to go, forcing the club to wait for a draw or defeat of FC Porto at Paços de Ferreira field, and needing a clear victory in their latest season fixture at Estádio da Luz. Later on, not even a week after, the club lost again 2-1 at Amsterdam Arena versus FC Chelsea to UEFA Europa League final, again with a later goal conceded at 90+2 scored by serbian defender Branislav Ivanovic. Again in advantage, and again a loss, SL Benfica lost 2-1 at Taça de Portugal final at Estádio do Jamor against Vitória de Guimarães.


In their latest 4 matches, Benfica lost the three competitions they were still involved.

SL Benfica chairman Luis Filipe Vieira, seems the only person currently holding the manager Jorge Jesus position, as voices rise more and more even within the board council of the club, demanding the manager departure immediately.

Good Luck. I have never manager Benfica but they look good

This is a great start to your first story. Eusebio is a player I look up to a lot and Benfica as a whole is one of my favourite clubs, good luck!

SL Benfica manager sacked

Jorge Jesus is no longer Benfica manager.
The manager has been sacked by the club chairman Luis Filipe Vieira following the team failure to win any of the competitions they were involved in the past season.
Tension between the manager and fans has been rising since then, with some of the key players in the first team also showing sings of needing a new manager in command of the team faith and destiny.
The Portuguese manager could not make it after the first training of the season, on which, despite the numerous singings on the market, the fans have presented him with white tissues again on the stands, which immediately forced Luis Filipe Vieira to take a position regarding Jesus continuity.

After leaving Benfica training ground at Seixal, the chairman stopped and answered quickly to "Why sack Jesus now?" with a simple "I promised supporters 3 trophies in 4 seasons and with Jesus that wasn't going to happen."

FC Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes is being appointed by some media, as the future SL Benfica manager, on what would be a return to a well-known place to the 68 year old German manager.
Heynckes was at the club in 1999/2000 season and his return would be well seen by the fans.


There are other names being rumored, with the list headlined by another former Benfica manager: Giovanni Trapattoni who passed by the club at the 2004/2005 season winning the Portuguese Premier League, trophy that "Encarnados" were chasing for more than a decade by then.

Wow!!!! In Jupp we trust!!

@BayernAmerica: he ended up being actually linked with a return to Benfica after Jesus failure in the ending of the season. Strangly Jesus was linked with a move to FC Porto as he was running out of contract at Benfica. I wish he was gone

SL Benfica fans shocked at new manager

Benfica chairman Luis Filipe Vieira appeared today, in the conference room, with the club former players Eusébio da Silva Ferreira and Rui Costa, and the new club manager: Pedro Castro.
If you are reading this article, you are now wondering: who?!
Pedro is retired football player, that resigned 10 years ago due to a knee injury. The former full back has his only manager experience with the side of Sporting Club da Cruz, a lower division club from the region of Porto, north of Portugal.
The 37 year-old manager, moves now to the capital of Portugal, Lisboa, being given a 1 year contract with wages rumored at 100,000 euro per month.

- Paulo Fonseca (ojogo.pt) - "At the age of 37, you reach a 1st division club, a club that according to Guinness World Records is the 2nd larger in the world in number of supporters. How do you feel?"
- Pedro Castro - "It's an honor. Benfica it's the club of my heart since forever. I will do my best to lead us back into glory and trophies."

- Duarte Rosas (record.pt) - "Do you feel your lack of 1st tier managing experience will affect you or the players confidence in your abilities?"
- Pedro Castro - "The players at the club will need to learn and understand what's loving this club. If they are with this feeling they will with me, at the end of the season we can speak again about my abilities."

- Filipe Borges (abola.pt) - "What is your approach on gaming at all?"
- Pedro Castro - "The fans will understand that I like to express the superiority of this club with large numbers and victories. Attacking all the way out, no matter who the opponent is."

- Telmo Firmino (zerozero.pt) - "Your answer to my colleague Filipe suggests we will be seeing changes in the first team, is that correct?"
- Pedro Castro - "Yes, that is correct, even how, I will not discuss transfers in public at least for now. Expect moves in and out soon."

- João Ramos (maisfutebol.iol.pt) - "Your targer man Oscar Cardozo, had falled in the bad graces of former manager Jorge Jesus, with the board receiving a request by the manager to transfer the player. How will you deal with this? Will the player feature your squad?"
(By this time media were informed by SL Benfica press assistants that this was the last question - Did they touched a problem?!)
- Pedro Castro" - "Oscar has a strong temper, he is a winner and represents exactly what this club is about: victory. He will be staying with us if he wishes so, and if that happens, a squad will be set up with him on the first eleven."

- João Ramos (maisfutebol.iol.pt) - "Does that mean you will sell André Almeida in order to keep Cardozo?"


At this time Pedro left the press conference.
Following Castro's press conference ending, which left the media in doubt on youngster André Almeida's future, the Italian tuttomercato.it already links Almeida with a move to another club. At the very last game of the season, Benfica lost 2-1 to Vitória Guimarães, conceding 2 goals already near the end of the match. Paraguayan striker Oscar "Tacuara" Cardozo pushed Benfica's manager by that time, Jorge Jesus, which clearly indicated his frustration either on being substituted and/or the choices made by the Portuguese manager. Cardozo also ended up arguing with Benfica's Director of Football António Carraça and the midfielder André Almeida. This all happen right after the final blown of the referee, still on the field. "Tacuara" ended up being fined by the club chairman Luis Filipe Vieira for inappropriate behavior, and is currently banned from entering any of the club facilities.
With Castro arrival, it appears now that the striker is set to stay.

Go Benfica!