No revelations, no excuses, and no promises – just a story.
Twice The Bear has played his hand at football management, and twice he has been soundly beaten. His critics are many, and his friends few. Despite his best efforts, he has been unable to find a club willing to take him in; not even in the lowly Swedish 4th division. Broken, lost, and confused, he departed European shores as quickly as he had appeared.
As time went by without word, the few who had cared to follow his career assumed he’d simply disappeared back into the wilderness from which he came. Football, after all, is not a bear’s sport. A handful of diehard adventurers attempted to seek him out, but he was nothing more than a ghost in the wind. Eventually they too admitted defeat, and the world quickly forgot about the sport-loving ursine.
It was then naturally rather shocking when the ghost Bear reemerged unexpectedly, both in timing and location. On a warm January morning, in the small city of Moquegua, Peru, The Bear was announced as the new manager of the Cobresol football club. They were a smaller team competing in the Peruvian top flight, known as the Copa Movistar for sponsorship reasons, but bearing the full name of «Torneo Descentralizado de Futbol Profesional de Peru».
Cobresol had never before won a title, and had its trophy cabinet held nothing but old cobwebs. With little money (comparatively), and low expectations, The Bear has his work cut out for him. Meanwhile, the footballing world watches and waits to see what the famed ursine is able to accomplish in his third managerial foray.
Gbolahan
31 декабря, 2011 at 01:12
Its great to see you attempt a story again after the things that you have been through. I’ll be reading every post attentively.
hapoo
31 декабря, 2011 at 03:53
lets gooooooooooo bear dont let fm beat you o and make this colombian team the best
vaibhavc
31 декабря, 2011 at 07:06
The bear has a job, make sure you answer the critics now with this new job.
NKatsarov
31 декабря, 2011 at 07:25
Well Done, Bear. Wish you good luck with Cobresol and many cups. We all know you can do it..!!! :)
themightymphed
31 декабря, 2011 at 09:09
I didn’t even know the Peruvian league was in FM!!!! Shows how Euro brain-washed I am! lol
Good luck mate………might give a «random» country a go for my next save!
Enjoy Hogmanay!
Johnny Karp
31 декабря, 2011 at 09:29
Loved the post Stromo and the story looks quite exciting. Fingers crossed for a long a fruitful career! ;)
Woody
31 декабря, 2011 at 09:30
‘the bear’ WILL succeed this time
Kevin
31 декабря, 2011 at 09:37
That was quicker than I expected….welcome back Bear!
ri916
31 декабря, 2011 at 10:17
i thought you were going back to wales?- enjoy peru i spose :?
Laxeyman
31 декабря, 2011 at 11:01
Great to see you back Stromo, and it looks like you’ve got a really interesting story here :) Good luck!
TheZiggy
31 декабря, 2011 at 14:16
It makes perfect sense to me for the Bear to reappear in Peru, given that Paddington Bear came from deepest, darkest Peru. ;) That takes me back a long way to when I used to read those books.
Looks like you have a fair amount of transfer and wage budget to play with. Good luck mate.
nielsneutron
31 декабря, 2011 at 15:29
I will keep a close eye on the bear otherwise it might eat me;)
Good luck
Walton
31 декабря, 2011 at 16:21
Dedication is key.
CsAtlantis
1 января, 2012 at 07:42
Oooooh a club from Peru, (on a irrelevant note I think I took in Andy Polo on a free)
You have a decent wage budget to get in new players, the transfer budget isn’t much but there is quite a lot of room for wages, good luck!
junior
1 января, 2012 at 10:17
loool…the bear thing was funny lol…all the best with ur new story!!