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A Very Bearish Journey
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.
