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[FM 13] The two manager brothers story...

The End!
Started on 5 April 2013 by gambit84
Latest Reply on 6 December 2013 by Rablador
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END OF THE SERIE A SEASON


This long season has finally come to an end… A great end! We won three titles, the last being the UCL, the most important one! Before that, we played the last 3 Serie A matches (I was almost forgetting about telling of them), where I decided to let some youngsters have their professional debuts, and some players who had not enough time this year play some minutes…

SERIE A RESULTS

Is Arenas, Quartu Sant’Elena, 05/04/2014 - Day 36
Cagliari - MILAN 0 - 2

A solid win despite the list of backups in the starting line-up. 14 minutes after the beginning, De Sciglio had to go out for an injury (fortunately, nothing really bad) and Tonny Hendriks entered in his place making his professional debut. I decided to play Trabelsi as the striker and I was paid off by the goal he scored few seconds before the halftime. During the second half, other two youngsters entered for the first time a Serie A pitch, the first being Valiant Virgili and the second Natale Visciglia. The first had an unbelievable debut: 2 minutes after entering the pitch, he shot into the net a great pass from Jovetic. This guy seems to be promising…


San Siro, Milano, 05/07/2014 - Day 37
MILAN - Chievo 1 - 0

For the last home match of the season, I decided to line-up the ideal first 11, with few changes. The most important was Hendriks: he is the most promising prospect I have together with Visciglia and I wanted to see him from the beginning. He played well, in a match that we won 1-0 thanks to the 40th goal by Falcao. Another two important prospects made their professional debuts in that match: Markus Muller and Lyes Chiha.


Friuli, Udine, 05/04/2014 - Day 38
Udinese - MILAN 2 - 1

The last match wasn’t so good for us, a tough loss against Udinese at Friuli.But the match was mainly devoted to Christian Abbiati and Massimo Ambrosini, who were playing the last match of their wonderful careers. Massimo in particular celebrates that with a goal, becoming the oldest goalscorer of our side’s history.


Amedeo la Rosa had his professional debut taking the place of Christian few minutes before the final whistle.


SERIE A REVIEW

We ended the league with 96 points, scoring 78 goals and taking only 20, having the best attack and defense of the league. Juventus 29 points far from us and qualified to Champions League. Lazio, Parma and Inter finished with the same amount of points (62), and their order was due only to their matches against each others: Lazio goes to UCL Preliminary Rounds, Parma and Inter to Euro League.

The most surprising news of the season is Roma’s relegation to Serie B: Giallorossi played a really bad season ending with 34 points, one less than Empoli and Chievo, and go down together with Ternana and Spezia.

Falcao won the Top Goalscorer award: his first season in Italy was wonderful and he scored 32 goals, 8 more than Rolando Bianchi (Torino).


El Tigre was also the one who had the best average rating in the league, 7.79 (together with Modibò Diakité, Lazio) and the one who was elected MVP most frequently (10 times). Moreover, Fraser Forster was the goalie with most clean sheets of the season (24).
What a great end to the season! Milan destroying everyone in their path to lifting so many trophies! They can only get stronger from here great work
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Kr1ups: thanks mate, as always! :) It will be hard to do better than this with Milan... but who knows! ;)

P.S. Your 150 thank is mine! ;)
Great job mate, elite.
Toon: thanks mate! Now it's time to go to the Liga with Oviedo! ;)
STEFANO GAGLIARDO’S DIARY – 06/08/2014

We arrived in Alicante the day before the Match… The Match with capital M: it was the match that could give us the pass to the first division! We needed a draw, at least… We were first in the league, something outstanding! Two points more than Las Palmas, three more than Celta… In case both would have won, a loss had meant play-offs to us… And I didn’t want that!

The evening, Chiara, Martina and I had dinner with a friend of mine, Joaquin, and his wife. He had been my professor when I was at the university. A nice man, with a great passion for Real Madrid, but also for Hercules as he was born in Alicante. We spoke about football and not only, and I had to tell him that I was going to do my best to defeat his side. I invited him to join my wife and daughter on the stands the next day: I had two tickets for them. They accepted and I was happy for that.

The day after we had no training sessions: we didn’t need it, the guys were ready for the match! We met at 4 p.m., two hours before the beginning of the match, in the changing room of the José Rico Perez, the Alicante’s home. We spoke about the 90 minutes that were waiting us, all together, as a team should always do…


The José Rico Perez stadium.

The starting whistle came very soon and the match started! I knew it had been a tough match even if they have no objective at all: they sat in the 10th place with no hope of getting to the play-offs. But of course, and as always have to be done, they were not there to let us win. They lined-up with a very defensive 4-5-1: well, they were facing the leaders of the Liga Adelante!

They were fighting on every ball, stopping all our attacks. We had to wait 30 minutes to kick the ball through their goal the first time: Diego’s shot was right in Juan Carlos’ hands. The first half finished with no real emotions: a boring 0-0. In a sense I could be happy: they had not even a chance to kick to our goal and a draw would mean the second place for us due to the other partial results: Las Palmas was winning 1-0 against Cartagena, Celta was 0-0 in Huelva against Recreativo. But I didn’t want to risk and I asked the guys to go out and score one goal, to let the promotion be safely in our hands. The first 20 minutes followed the same refrain of the first half, then I decided to change something. I said to the young Juan Pablo Villalobos that he had to enter in place of Issa Yameogo: he was not playing good that day. The young American was ready, I could see his eyes hungry of victory! And he showed that few minutes later: he catch a free kick by Fabio Henrique and shot the ball into the net! 1-0! We were in the Liga! But 20 minutes were waiting us… Fortunately, Hercules seemed to have no intention of destroying our plans. Ten minutes before the end of the match, I sent Manu Busto into the pitch: last week he told me about his will of retiring at the end of the season and he deserved to participate to the last match, that meant also its 150th appearance with our shirt.


Then, the final whistle came with no other emotions…

I ran into the pitch to hug all the guys! Many of them were crying…. I was crying too! We obtained the second consecutive promotion: in two years, together with these wonderful players, I gave to Real Oviedo the possibility to play in Spanish first division!


Everyone was delighted: Diego hugged me, thanking me for what I did… I replied he did that together with me: he dragged the side with more than 60 goals in two seasons and with his determination and leadership… Manu Busto thanked me for having given him the opportunity to play in a so historical match for the side…


The chair called me thanking me: he had never thought we could do that, and in only two years!


When I came out from the stadium, my daughter ran to me and jumped in my arms… My wife hugged me… Joaquin and his wife complimented with me a lot, saying I completely deserved that…

I cannot realize what I did right now… Tomorrow, maybe, I will…

Stefano Gagliardo
PROMOTION FOR OVIEDO! What a great season mate! Deserved every win and every point!
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2013-06-03 01:25#108191 k1rups : PROMOTION FOR OVIEDO! What a great season mate! Deserved every win and every point!
Thanks mate! Now the most difficult part comes: to stay away from relegation next year! ;)
Congratulation

Very impressive winning back-to-back promotions.

Good luck in the LIGA BBVA next season.
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STEFANO GAGLIARDO - END OF THE SEASON


I am still shocked for what we have done… I am so tired… And I think that no words can describe the end of our season… So, I will only spend few words in this update, and delay any longer comment to the season summary…

LIGA ADELANTE RESULTS

Cartagonova, Cartagena, 05/04/2014 - Day 36
Cartagena - OVIEDO 0 - 1


Nuevo Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, 05/11/2014 - Day 37
OVIEDO - Cordoba 2 - 0


Nuevo Los Pajaritos, Soria, 05/18/2014 - Day 38
Numancia - OVIEDO 0 - 2


Nuevo Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, 05/21/2014 - Day 39
OVIEDO - Racing 1 - 0


Nuevo Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, 05/28/2014 - Day 40
OVIEDO - Ponferradina 3 - 0


Nuevo Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, 06/01/2014 - Day 41
OVIEDO - Murcia 2 - 0


José Rico Perez, Alicante, 06/08/2014 - Day 42
Hercules - OVIEDO 0 - 1


We obtained 21 points over 21 in the last 7 matches, scoring 12 goals and didn’t concede any to our opponents! We were amazing and we showed we deserve the promotion…

Just a one-word comment for the final league table: PROMOTION!!!




MAN OF THE MONTH

JUAN PABLO VILLALOBOS

Despite the stunning performances of Issa Yameogo, I want to award Juan Pablo because he scored 3 goals, the last one being the one that gave us the final victory of the Liga Adelante. A hot prospect for the future…
2013-06-03 06:51#108213 Northwood : Congratulation

Very impressive winning back-to-back promotions.

Good luck in the LIGA BBVA next season.
Thanks mate! I will do my best to stay there... ;)
Even if the teams you beat in the last seven games was not a murderers' row it’s still a very impressive way end to the season.

Especially the win against Racing where you manage to hang on despite having a man sent off.

ANDREA GAGLIARDO - OVERVIEW OF 2013/14 SEASON


The thing I am sure of is that I can look at the past season with pride! We won three trophies, starting from the Supercoppa, dominating the Serie A from its very beginning, and finally triumphing with the wonderful Champions League victory, the most surprising one!


TRAINING

The final training summary by Mauro gave me confidence for the future: the younger players trained really well this season and are largely improving. We set the end of season break to July 14th, so to have 5 weeks before the first season match.

BOARD CONFIDENCE AND FINANCES

Board gave me a great boost of morale at the end of the season, showing an increasing confidence on my job. They were delighted by my leadership qualities and by the results of the side, in particular the Champions League performance.


Finances are going well, with a profit of almost 14M€ and a good wage budget management, that lead the balance to mark 48M€.

MAN OF THE SEASON
If we want to mention three men who distinguished among the others this season, they will be the following.

1. Falcao
40 goals, 9 assists and 14 times MVP and an average rating of 7.80 in 36 apps for the Colombian striker, arrived at Milan at the beginning of the season for 54M€. Top goalscorer of the Serie A with 32 goals, he definitely deserved that amount: the most decisive player of the team… and of Italy… and probably of the whole Europe! What about the Golden Ball?

2. Stevan Jovetic
The first year he needed to familiarize with his mates, but this year he did a very good job. 9 goals and 12 assists for his mates, an average rating of 7.45 in 33 apps. I hope he will be even better next season!

3. Lisandro Lopez
The third place goes to a defender. He started as a backup for Raul Albiol, but his solid performances let him gain his place in the starting line-up many times in the second half of the season. And this will probably be also next year… from the beginning…

YOUTH
If the first team dominated the Serie A, the same can be said about our U20 team for the Group 1. They won the title smashing all the opponents, scoring the large amount of 101 goals (more than twice with respect to the second best attack) and finishing 14 points over Juventus.

On the other hand, the adventure in the U20 cup finished early, with a bad home 0-1 defeat against Atalanta in the fourth round.

Man of the season was definitely Valiant Virgili, who scored 23 goals in 28 appearances, ending with a 7.52 average rating. The guy also scored a goal in his professional debut against Cagliari: a great season for him!

For the incoming season, I will take care mostly of Tonny Hendriks, Carlo Malizia and Natale Visciglia: the first two will probably join the first team from the very beginning of the season, the last one will stay in the youth, but he has already had his debut and I think he may follow his mates in 2/3 seasons.

A last mention goes to Leon Goretzka: the 19yo German was on loan to Wolfsburg and he deserved to win the German U19 Player of the Year award.

NEXT SEASON
Next season will be very hard, with 6 competitions to take care about! To the four we played this season (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Italian Super Cup and UEFA Champions League), two will be added due to our victory in the UCL: the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Championship. Our aim will be to win at least three of them: the Serie A, the Italian Super Cup, and one among the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Championship.

Then, we will have to do our best in all the others: of course, UCL will be the most important one and we aim to reach at least the semifinals; the final is the minimum to be reached dealing with Coppa Italia, after the bad performance of this season.
2013-06-03 07:37#108227 Northwood : Even if the teams you beat in the last seven games was not a murderers' row it’s still a very impressive way end to the season.

Especially the win against Racing where you manage to hang on despite having a man sent off.
It was a great row, also because the other teams fighting with me for direct promotion, Celta and Las Palmas, was doing as good as me... So I had to win every match to be on the top!

The match against racing was really hard, but the last 30 minutes we also had the possibility to score the second goal...

STEFANO GAGLIARDO - OVERVIEW OF 2013/14 SEASON

Amazing, this is one of the only adjectives you can give to the last season! We started as a side fighting for avoiding relegation and we ended as the winners of the Liga Adelante! Deserving it, totally, playing a wonderful football and winning some incredible matches. Now, it’s time to review what happened in the whole season…
TRAINING

My second in charge, Cristian Torres, came to my office the day after the last match to give me a report of the seasonal training. The overall performance of the players was optimal, with some young players that increased their skills very much during these months. We decided to meet again with the guys on July 7th: I need at least 5 weeks to prepare the next season, that will be really hard for us.

BOARD CONFIDENCE AND FINANCES

I didn’t expect less than an increasing confidence by the board looking at the result we had. Finances are of course benefiting of the increasing performances of the side. The profit grow up to almost 3M€ and, together with a good wage management, this led to a current balance of over 5M€.

MAN OF THE SEASON
I want to mention three players among all the ones of my team... Even if I’d have to thank everyone for what he did during these months!

1. Diego Cervero
I think Diego deserves my best thanks for his leadership in the changing room, more than for his performances that have been in any case outstanding! He played 38 times scoring 25 goals with 7 assists, and being the MVP 8 times during the season. He finished with an average rating of 7.58: he was without any doubt the most decisive man this year, inside and outside the pitch!

2. Issa Yameogo
Without Diego, he would have been my best player of the season! He is only 17, but he plays like a veteran and managed to score 26 goals in 37 appearances, with 8 assists and being elected MVP 8 times, as many as Diego. He ended with a 7.46 average rating, that is a great result for a so young guy.

3. Fabio Henrique
I needed some more time to decide the last one to award, but I think that this Brazilian guy deserves it. He is the hottest prospect of the team and he is growing up very well! He played 35 matches, scoring 2 goals, but most of all giving 16 assists to his mates! He ended the season with a 7.35 average rating and my only fear is to lose him in the next years, as he can become a great player and interests from the most important team will not be late in coming…

YOUTH
The youth team betrayed a little bit the expectation on it. I think I had built a very important U19 team and I thought it could fight for winning the league. Despite this, it obtained a 4th place and th cup quarterfinals, that is not a great result, but we can build on this.

The youth of the season was definitely Juan Pablo Villalobos, not only for the 33 goals scored with the U19 team, but also because he did great with the first team, scoring also the goal that led us to the Liga against Hercules.

The hot prospect to take care about next season will be, together with Juan Pablo, Xu Wei, Robert Papp and Jorge Alvarez, who already had been in the first squad some times this season, especially the Chinese guy, that has started in the line-up many times in the last months.

NEXT SEASON
I don’t know what I can wait for next season… It will be a really tough fight for avoiding relegation: we are a so young team and these guys do not know what means play against great champions like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi… And I don’t know either! But well, maybe to be young will be not so bad: we have the enthusiasm to put on the pitch and to give problems to anyone who is going to face us!

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