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Ana — FM 2011 : Cruzeiro, Season 24

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Hello everyone!

Hope you are all well and welcome to season 24 in my challenge. If you remember last time I cowardly left my post at Sao Paulo to join Cruzeiro who have dominated Brazilian football for about the last decade.

This is halfway-ish through my season as I left mid-season so Cruzeiro have already won the Copa Libertadores! But I hope to try and compete for it next season to leave only Europe to complete.

So here we go, and I will start with my long and varied manager C.V :

 

Cheonan (July 2010 – January 2013)

Nothing won.

South China (June 2013 – June 2016)

Hong Kong League Title : 2014, 2015, 2016

Senior Shield : 2013, 2016

League Cup : 2014, 2015, 2016

Asian Confederation Cup : 2014, 2016

F.C.A.K (December 2016 – November 2019)

South African First Division :  2018, 2019

South African First Divison Cup : 2019

Moroko Swallows (November 2019 – January 2023)

South African FA Cup : 2020, 2021

South African Premier League : 2021, 2022

South African Charity Cup : 2020

South African Knockout Cup : 2021

South African Super Eight : 2021

African Champions League : 2022

FC Seoul (February 2023 – February 2026)

The K-League : 2023, 2024, 2025

The Korean League Cup : 2023, 2024

The Pan-Pacific Championship : 2024, 2025

The Korean FA Cup : 2024

Asian Champions League : 2025

St Gallen (October 2026 – July 2027)

Nothing won.

Veracruz (July 2027 – June 2031)

Mexican Opening Stage : 2029

Superliga : 2030

Champions Cup : 2030

North America Champions League : 2031

Sao Paulo (June 2031 – July 2032)

Sao Paulo State Championship : 2032

Cruzeiro (July 2032 — Present)

Nothing won as of yet.

International Teams :

Morocco (Febraury 2015 – December 2016)

Nothing won.

Senegal (November 2021 – February 2023)

African Cup Of Nations : 2023

Egypt (October 2025 – February 2027)

Nothing Won.

Mexico (September 2028 –  September 2029)

The Gold Cup : 2029

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So a quick look back on the history of Cruzeiro show the dominace they have had, they have even won the Club World Championships twice beating European based opposition!

I have really landed on my feet here!

League Results Halfway Point

So despite my fantastic start, Cruzeiro got of to a very sluggish start and we find ourselves five points behind Palmeiras. Most of the teams I played were very winnable games but a great result as I beat my former side by four goals!

Shows the class divide between the two sides.

Transfers Out, Second Transfer Window

Transfer In, Second Transfer Window

So here we are my favourite time of the season! Transfer window time I made a few new signings all brought in from Europe but I also sold a few players. The values show the class we have as Kaka and Flavio were sold for a combined £14 million.

I sold Evandro and sold Rolon basically down to the work permit rules but both players raised another £9 million to our club.

Eduardo was a big sale going to France for almost £15 million so we raised a fair bit and the squad is still very strong as most were fringe players at best, yes fringe players!! I made three new signings so lets take a little look at them :

Quinho

Andre

Torres

So I was very happy with my players! Quinho was bought to start in my midfield as we have loads of attacking options but lack a little defensive minded players so he was bought for that reason.

Andre was a 5* talent! The first one I have seen I think! My scouts are amazing so I have really high hopes for him, but he wont play this season  having played X amount of games for Palmerias means he cant play for another Braziliam team until next season.

Torres is a wide player but I really like him, so he will start as we lacked a little quality in that area.

Final League Results Of The Season

Just about did it! Sao Paulo had a brilliant season and had the advantage having beaten us three one but we hit a great spell right when we needed to claim our seventh title in a row!

In all honesty not much of a challenge to win the title with this side, we are so far away from the rest its quite frightening, and having not been for the previous manager and his shaky start we would have hit the hundred point mark I am sure of that.

We just score so many goals, infact we create so many chances at times almost three times as many as our opposition, this could be the best team I have ever managed on FM.

Final Player Ratings Of The Season

Star Man — Tony

So having be made to watch the England game yesterday I noticed Fabio Capello saying fatigue cost his team, well my players have played up to 67 games this season and still perform to the best of their ability!

Tony was the star but you are not surprised? His stats are amazing and he scores and creates and from a winger what more would you want!

Bill is also a fantastic player, I would say he is like Kaka (Real Madrid one) in his prime ,wierd that we have a Bill and a Tony!

Chicao is a good frontman and Marcelo is also fairly decent but no-where near the level of the Marcelo I had at Sao Paulo!

In all honesty my whole squad is amazing and the average ratings reflect that.

Thats It!

So yeah thats it! LoL!

Again a fairly shortish update but this was only half a season next post will include the state championship (which is even more of a joke!) and the main league once again.

But also that crucial Copa Libertadores that we are aiming for and having won it for the past two seasons I am fairly confident of making it three in a row!

So thanks for reading, and before I forget its my birthday on Friday (Will be 25, am feeling old!) so my boyfriend is taking me away somewhere romantic I hope! So I will be away from Friday until Tuesday the 14th he hasnt told me where we are going yet so I am a little worried!

But as long as I am with him I dont mind! :)

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