Ana – FM 2011: Moroko Swallows, Season Twelve

Hi everyone! So am back with another post and infact I have almost completed my next season too! So the next update should be in a few days but first things first lets get season twelve wrapped up!

Last season I won my first ever South African premier league title and after a bit of confusion I did make it to the qualfying stage of the African champions league! The reson was that they begin the competition near the end of my domestic season so wanst sure if I had made it!

So again prepare yourself for a long read! Another whole season is about to be posted!!

Career History :

— Cheonan (July 2010 – January 2013)

— South China (June 2013 – June 2016)

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

— Moroko Swallows (November 2019 – Present)

International Teams :

— Morocco (Febraury 2015 – December 2016)

Honours :

Hong Kong League Title : 2014, 2015, 2016 (South China)

Senior Shield : 2013, 2016 (South China)

League Cup : 2014, 2015, 2016 (South China)

Asian Confederation Cup : 2014, 2016 (South China)

South African First Division :  2018, 2019 (FCAK)

South African First Divison Cup : 2019 (FCAK)

South African FA Cup : 2020, 2021 (Moroko Swallows)

South African Premier League : 2021 (Moroko Swallows)

South African Charity Cup : 2020 (Moroko Swallows)

Just to clarify this is my career up to my last post, so will not include any of the things I will win in this post. Hope that makes sense! Anything in red was won last year to keep people updated!

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Transfers In And Out First Transfer Window

So for once I was pretty happy with my team and as such made only one transfer that was Arendse on a free transfer. I sold only one player for money that of Morfou for £150k and for once a really quiet transfer report!

Marc Andrese

So not much to say a decent young player who will provide backup to my team. Nothing to lose as I payed nothing for him but we will see how he gets on in my side.

A New Job Accepted!

So I am now the national manger of Senegal! Who to my surprise have a very good side, my aims are to qualify for the world cup and to have a good go in the African Nations cup. I will show you my two best players :

Khouma Babacar

Wow! I wonder if he would be interested in joining me at the Moroko Swallows! A brilliant striker who is currently at Chelsea and will lead the line in my Senegal side. His stats speak for themselves really!

Aliou Faye

Is he even better??!! Another who plays at Chelsea and is a winger but could easily play anywhere! Again his sats are amazing and will play a big part in my Senegal side.

The rest are pretty good also so am confident of doing well here at Senegal I would have posted more players but these two are the standouts just amazing stats!

The Halfway Point

So despite a pretty good first half we lie in second to the Sundowns! Ironically their deadly strikeforce were both players that I sold to them! So a lesson learnt do not sell players to your rivals!

Am a little worried as their goal difference is also better than mine so that could be another point to them but we have to keep going in the hope that they slip up and we can take advantage. No transfers in or out as I kept the squad together.

The Second Half Of The Season

I must admit we were quite lucky but we did manage to retain our league title but the Sundowns pushed us all the way. After the humiliating 3-0 defeat to them they had opened a seven point advantage and at one stage looked like they would cruise to the title, but we kept on going winning the games we needed to just edge clear at the end.

It was an exciting finish and at one point I felt it was over but was pleased to win the league again.

Final Player Ratings

We played alot of games and as you can see some played up to 60 games, which to players of this level is too many. Injuries were coming thick and fast towards the end as many of  my players were running on empty. Khumalo remained our best player on the right wing in creating so many chances for others.

Davids and Paulse were terrific at the back and Kirsten scored 23 goals alongside the 15 of Wayne Josephs. Lots of my players are wanted so that shows just how good they are so my main aim is to keep them together for the upcoming season.

Cup Competition

Charity Cup

The Final

So a loss and its always frustrating to lose a cup final! That said we didnt really play that well so we deserved that result and we will just move on.

African Confederations Cup

Wow, a stupid amount of games to play just to lose in the final! This is the Europa league equivalant here in South Africa so to get to the final shows that we should be able to compete in the champions league. Ismaily are a massive club from Egypt with superstars compared to us! But we gave them a game and in the end we were unlucky in my view.

The Knockout Cup

The Final

The South Africans sure do love there cup competitions! This one was a pretty easy final but we had to come through a edgey game against the Orlando Pirates winning on penalties. Set pieces were their undoing as Davids scored twice from freekicks, Van Heereden added a great finish to seal the trophy.

So thats that! Another season down and another title and and trophy. As I have said before I will only post the cups I get to the final of so its safe assume that I did rubbish in the others!

My next post will include the champions league  results as we try to qualify for the group stage, it will also be the post were I will show my world cup results and the results of my first ever African cup of Nations with my Senegal side!  As always there will be twists and turns along the way so thanks for staying with me as I search for the first part of the challenge and try to win the African champions league!