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Why Indonesia?
After deciding I would start by the Asian Champions League conquer, I still had to choose one asian league to start with so, by looking at the available countries I decided to check from FIFA's official ranking which one was the "weakest"(no offense) league available in Football Manager 2013. Indonesia is number 168 according to FIFA's ranking, as you can check on the image by clicking on the button bellow.
By looking at this table I was a bit surprised to see Indonesian National Team as one of the weakests teams in the world, chasing teams like Malaysia(#159), Hong Kong(#148) and Singapore(#156). After that I checked the best/worst results ever since FIFA has this ranking, as you can see bellow.
With all this, I only needed to check with the FM2013 database and see if this ranking matches the game database.
As we can see, there are slight differences ingame since Malaysia and Singapore are bellow Indonesia in the World Nations Rankings. But according to FIFA they are not, and to untie things I decided to check ingame "World Competitions rankings" (since I didn't find any official source for this).
I selected Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong to compare their respective competitions in order to define which one has the lowest ranking in Football Manager 2013.
The selected league is the lowest league available ingame in the Indonesian context, its called Indonesian First Division (there are two more above, Premier division and Super League) and as we can see it is the lowest ranked league available in FM2013 since you cannot play with the other leagues bellow this one. And after all this analysis, it can be concluded that in fact the Indonesian First Division and Indonesian National Team are, in overall(ingame and real life), the lowest team/league available, again, with all due respect.
Finally, we have enough material to answer the question "Why Indonesia?". Because it is challenging, the most challenging career I've ever played since Championship Manager. The real question is "Why not?", and to answer to this new question I'm going to bring you some "Cultural Time" because sometimes Football Manager can get us to know civilizations better too!
I'll quote the big words for you:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indon%C3%A9sia:
The Indonesian economy is the world's sixteenth largest by nominal GDP and fifteenth largest by purchasing power parity.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indon%C3%A9sia:
The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indon%C3%A9sia:
Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II.
(this one is interesting, since we might find some indonesian Robbie Van Persie ;p )
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indon%C3%A9sia:
Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic change.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indon%C3%A9sia:
Sports in Indonesia are generally male-orientated and spectator sports are often associated with illegal gambling.
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indon%C3%A9sia:
It has 34 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country (The first among Islamic countries)
With all this in mind, I guess it's a good chance to build a reputation with this country, not only with his clubs but also contributing with some quality players for their national team. I would like to leave you some side
objectives I would like to achieve in this country:
- Build a good formation basis (e.g youth facilities)
- Create good players for the national team
- Build League/Team/Country reputation
Who knows, I might be assuming control of the Indonesian National Team and win something important with them later...
Hope you enjoy it,
See you back soon with the beginning of my campaign!!
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