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Career Around the World in (far more) 80 Games - Career Round Up


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3 minutes ago, Foxy said:

I don’t need to take them to China or the US.

All the matches will be played with me managing Arsenal and then I bring in a player from each nation we visit. To complete a country and move to the next one that player needs to score a goal in a match that Davis or Aouar get an assist. When that happens I sell the goalscorer and buy a new player from the next country and it all starts again.

I admit it’s a bit complicated but hopefully it will make sense as the save goes on.

 

Oh ok

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10 hours ago, samhardy said:

Are you trying to say that Scotland isn’t scenic?

Thank you for your question Sam.

As with most nations of the world it has its scenic parts such as....

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And it’s less scenic...

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With a bit of luck Scotland will be involved later on in the save 👍🏻

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We left update 1 with us all sat in Dublin airport ready for a flight north to the very edge of the Arctic Region.

Iceland 🇮🇸 

I didn’t have a huge choice of strikers to go with and I couple would have cost more than I wanted to spend so in the end I spent £7.75m on...

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His shooting and movement aren’t great but hopefully he can get on the end of an Aouar corner nice and early and we can move on.

His first game was against Wolves and the save suffered a double blow as not only did Bodvarsson not score but we decreased our chances of getting the assists we need in games as well because Davis got an injury.

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A month out was not what we needed especially as Aouar has yet to get an assist.

One problem with cup games not counting is that it makes it feel like it takes longer for a player to get a goal.

Annoyingly Bodvarsson got 3 goals in this run of 6 games but we never got that all important assist from Aouar as well 😕

We also crashed out the League Cup to Man City 🙁

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Our luck changed in the next game though as we took on Southampton and Bodvarsson got his 4th goal and finally Aouar finally got a bloody assist (2 in fact just to make sure)!

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This means that after 4 games in Iceland we can finally head to our next destination.

Greenland 🇬🇱 

I promised you guys a scenic route and I think so far that is what we are getting.

Greenland isn’t a land that strikes you as a footballing nation but it is a popular sport on the island and they have a national team which is currently trying to enter FIFA.

They also have a national stadium.

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Greenland is actually a part of the Kingdom of Denmark so although I tried to find someone who may be a candidate from Greenland itself I can compromise with a Danish player as anyone born in Greenland would be eligible to play for the Danish national team.

Luckily I have loaded China and that meant there was only one option in my mind when it came to Danes.

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It had to be Vibe!!!

Again it didn’t happen straight away for Vibe although he did get one in the 4-2 win over Watford.

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At the third attempt against Fulham we had Davis back fit so we doubled our chances of getting a goal and assist.

As it turned out it was Aouar who got the assist we needed in this game and he seems to be getting his eye in now. 

Vibe smashed one in after 4 minutes and we could pack up and leave the Arctic.

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That was our 15th game in this save and we have visted 5 nations so it would be good if we could speed up a bit and get through some countries a bit quicker.

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At least Aouar is starting to get some assists and we now have Davis back fit as well

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Countries Visted So Far

Just two more countries added this update but we can start heading south again now and look for some warmer climates.

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Europe

England

Wales

Ireland

Iceland

Greenland (Denmark)

I think it is pretty obvious where we will be heading next as from Greenland there is only really the option of heading south into North America and specifically Canada.

Lets see who has a good knowledge of Canadian footballers and who can predict who my next pick will be as I have a few options with MLS loaded.

Thanks for reading and comments are very welcome.

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1 hour ago, 1759 said:

Cyle Larin

Nope not him.

1 hour ago, Woody said:

The fact you chose Vibe means this save has gone up a notch.

Well at least I have got the save out the gutter!

Cheers mate, I’m glad you liked my pick of Vibe 😀

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Paul Peschisolido?

Great to see Lassie return to London. He had a lot of naff moments with us but some great touches and finishes, fair play to him.

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1 hour ago, Mr Tree said:

Paul Peschisolido?

Great to see Lassie return to London. He had a lot of naff moments with us but some great touches and finishes, fair play to him.

No I decided to let Mr Brady enjoy his retirement.

1 hour ago, 1759 said:

How about Lucas Cavallini? 

No not him.

The player I have chosen plays for a club in MLS that is based in his home land.

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I’m treating you all this weekend as we have another update.

We have left Europe behind and entered North America and have landed in Canada.

Canada 🇨🇦 

As correctly guessed by @1759 my player choice was Anthony Jackson-Hamel. I choose him for too reasons.

The first is he looks good with some pace and good aerial and shooting.

The second is how could I resist that winning smile!!!

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He joined us for £1m from Toronto and went straight into the team for the north London derby.

Winning smile and a goal after half an hour on his debut 😍

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Could Davis or Aouar do the decent thing and get an assist?

Damn straight they both could.

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That means we race through the great white north in record speed and find ourselves in the good ole US of A.

United States of America 🇺🇸

What would be perfect here is if we could smash through the States as quick as we got through Canada.

Following on from the success of AJ-H I decided to go with another player with a winning smile and also with the added bonus of being named after a type of duck.

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Teal is actually a much better player and cost £1.9m from New England and I’m hopeful he will do well.

He started against Man Utd in a 1st v 2nd clash and scored as well.

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Unfortunately despite Aouar finding the net neither him or Davis could get an assist.

We then played Lech is our final Europa League Group game and won 3-0 to win the group.

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We also continued our good league form to beat Everton with Teal again scoring but no assist from either of the lads.

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The next game came a couple of days before Xmas and we raced into an early lead thanks to Dilrosun and then Teal. We held out despite the red card but who got the assists?

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It was Mr Assists himself Keinan Davis that set up the Dilrosun goal and means after 3 matches we are heading out of the USA.

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We head into into Christmas top of the league and with a really healthy lead. We have yet to lose which helps but the fact that Man City and Man Utd have lost an unprecedented 5 games already helps massively.

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Davis is still producing the goods on the assists front and it nice to see Aouar contributing as well.

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Countries Visted So Far

We have visted 7 countries so far in half the season which seems a decent total to me.

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Europe

England

Wales

Ireland

Iceland

Greenland (Denmark)

North America

Canada

USA

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We lacked options at the end of the last update but we have them this time as we decide whether we head into the tropical waters of the Caribbean or do we take the land route through Mexico.

I know which way we are going but I will leave it as a surprise for the rest of you.

Thanks for reading and comments are always appreciated.

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They are both certainly going for it with their smiles. 😁

Good to see them performing well too. I’m thinking you’re either going to Mexico next or straight to Columbia.

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17 minutes ago, 1759 said:

They are both certainly going for it with their smiles. 😁

Good to see them performing well too. I’m thinking you’re either going to Mexico next or straight to Columbia.

I’m a sucker for a nice smile 😃 

I can 100% guarantee that we won’t be going to Columbia next as there is a lot of countries between us and there. 

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13 hours ago, Ashez said:

Real solid progress foxy, personally I'm loving the picks so far!

Hopefully you will keep liking the picks as well as we have a few randoms coming up who are picked more for names than ability.

9 hours ago, BigAl said:

This is a great idea and an excellent read mate. Keep up the good work 😄

Will be following! 

Thanks mate and glad to have you on board for the journey.

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37 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Hopefully you will keep liking the picks as well as we have a few randoms coming up who are picked more for names than ability.

Thanks mate and glad to have you on board for the journey.

There is nothing wrong with that 😛

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Once we had completed our trip across the US we had two options. The first was head into Mexico where with the MLS loaded we had an abundance of guide options and the 2nd was to head into the Caribbean Sea.

I chose the Caribbean as our route.

Cuba 

When I found a Cuban it was an easy decision to head south from Florida and go there.

This is the lad and he cost the princely sum of £55k from a US lower league team called Richmond. Actually for the money he cost he looks a bargain to me.

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We had no luck in getting out of Cuba in the first 2 attempts.

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The third attempt was against Cardiff and Davis had got an early assist. The clock was running down as we launched one final attack and Heviel tapped home to guide us across the island safely.

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This meant I went on the hunt for another Caribbean player and specifically a Jamaican as that was my best option to head to next. What actually happened was another flag caught my eye as I was scrolling through a list of players and a quick check of the map later he was in the team.

Belize 🇧🇿 

We head back onto the North American continent and arrive in the tiny nation of Belize. When I saw a player with this nation as his first nationality I knew it was a perfect destination even if it takes us out of our way a little bit.

The guy in question is Michael Salazar and he joins from Montreal Impact for nowt as he was out of contract.

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He didn’t have the best debut as we lost our first league game of the season to Liverpool and then although we beat Bolton that was in the cup so wouldn’t count anyway and he never found the net in the win over Man City.

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He wasn’t going to be thwarted for long though as we took on West Ham and he was straight at it with a 4th minute goal.

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This meant we could head back out into the Caribbean and my original plan of visiting the island of Reggae.

Unfortunately Davis suffered an injury on the way when he fell off an inflatable banana and will miss a few games.

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Jamaica 🇯🇲

We had a good number of options for Jamaica and some very good players at that but as I said earlier I’m a sucker for a player with a good name and I couldn’t turn down the chance to use a Romario in the save.

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Ok he isn’t quite as good as his Brazilian namesake but he should do a job shouldn’t he.....

This long list of games says otherwise. The biggest problem was getting Davis, who had that 10 day injury which always seem to last for ever until they are fit again and Aouar on the pitch at the same time as Romario.

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All the cup games make it look worse than it actually is but it was still 5 matches and we hadn’t left Jamaica.

We finally got the job done against Watford, thanks to an Aouar assist.

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This match was actually a double celebration as we won the league with this win.

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That means we have 6 games left this season to see if we can get through another couple of nations.

Nations Visted So Far 

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Europe

England

Wales

Ireland

Iceland

Greenland (Denmark)

North America

Canada

USA

Caribbean 

Cuba

Central America 

Belize

Caribbean 

Jamaica

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We have some options again now as we could visit some more of the Caribbean or Central America or we can head south into South America. 

It all depends on the players and who takes my fancy this time.

Thanks for reading and all comments are welcome.

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Those Caribbean boys actually look half decent, certainly a lot better than I’d have thought anyway. I can relate to the ten day injury thing as whenever I get that now I think “Well that’s him out for about 3 weeks”.

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