Career Oldie 20 - Completed

[FlexBrendt]

To ease my comeback into football management, we are going for a simple all be yet frustrating challenge.

So, we need a player above 34, league with 20 teams and need to score against every league team.

Lets begin with selecting a league, as its a first comeback challenge we should start easy. So looking around, we come across a forgotten club which gave Bayern Munich run for its money in Bundesliga few seasons ago.

Club of Choice : 1. FC Kaiserslautern

Now we look around a roster and find a surprising pick. A guy from native region of Spain — Retired at 40 and still exists in the DB at the age of 44. Legend in Spanish Segunda Divison B, playing 300+ games and scoring 75+ goals with Melilla.

Player of Choice : Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand aka Chota

With 13 in shooting, 12 in strength and 11 in Aerial, this guy could score the goals at 44.

And we ring the bells to begin the season.

Transfers In :

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Getting Mile Jedinak, Christian Puggioni and Iván Strinic On free transfers made it a solid business for a German League 3 side.
 

Transfers Out :

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Nothing much happened here.

First Four Games :

We begin at Home against Unterhaching and what do you know.. Chota scores on debut inside first 2 minutes. Bright start..!

But then couple of penalties and a header gives a decent total of 4 goals against 4 teams in the league.

Results :

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Scorecard :

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Goals Scored — 4/20

Teams Scored Against - 4 (Unterhaching, Mannheim, Meppen, FC Bayern Munchen II)

Teams Left - 15

Updates coming soon..!

Edited January 29, 2020 by FlexBrendt

[FuddledFox]

Proper golden oldie you have picked there!

Nice start as well.

[FlexBrendt]

1 minute ago, Foxy said:

Proper golden oldie you have picked there!

Nice start as well.

Thanks @Foxy

[Woody]

I think bonus points for picking older older older players. 

44 is nuts but nice start. 

[Kanegan]

44?? Total nuts but a great start and best of luck for the remaining campaign. 

[FlexBrendt]

Update 1 :

10 games into the league, we find ourselves at the top of the 3.Liga with fluid 1-0 wins. Chota was substituted as soon as he scores a goal to avoid injuries and thus ending my challenge (44 is not a decent age to have injuries).

Results :

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Even as Chota Scored in every league game, German fans are not warming up to him. He’s still regarded as poor business made by the club.

Scorecard :

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Goals scored : 10/19

Teams remaining : 9

Games Played : 10

Final update coming soon..!

[FlexBrendt]

Update 2 :

We are in latter part of first half of the season, where we are required to score for 9 games in a row to get the perfect score in the challenge. Would we be able to do it, or the injury gods will prevent us from moving forward.. let’s find out.

Results :

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So, we did it.. 20 goals in 19 games (a surprising brace from Chota, 2 goals in last 5 mins)

Individual Stats :

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Profile :

Stats :

What a player this fella is, 20 goals in first half of season at the age of 44, I tip my hat towards you Mr. Chota.

Scorecard :

Challenge Score - 19/20 
 

Note : Edited as I need to keep the challenge going..

Edited January 27, 2020 by FlexBrendt

[Kanegan]

Great job mate. Well done. 

[FlexBrendt]

13 minutes ago, Kanegan said:

Great job mate. Well done. 

Thanks mate..!

[FuddledFox]

Unfortunately you haven’t quite read the challenge instructions properly.

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The aim is to score against 20 different teams in league games as quickly as possible with a player 34+.

So you are one club short this season. This may seem like a strange rule as it forces extra games in the challenge and in some leagues makes it impossible in one season but there is two good reasons why it was set this way.

1. Ronaldo has scored against every team he has faced in Serie A in the last year and a half so that is 23 different teams with the 3 that went down last season and now the two that came up this season. When myself and @Ashez planned this challenge we felt it would be unfair if you missed scoring against a team that got relegated you would have to rely on the game promoting them again. That’s why we went with 20 different teams to ensure it was a bit more fair but was as close to what Ronaldo has done as possible.
2. It stops the temptation of people setting an impossible score to beat in one season as you need to keep playing the guy even if he has scored against all the league in his first season so he stays happy and keeps his attributes.

[FlexBrendt]

24 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Unfortunately you haven’t quite read the challenge instructions properly.

So you are one club short this season. This may seem like a strange rule as it forces extra games in the challenge and in some leagues makes it impossible in one season but there is two good reasons why it was set this way.

1. Ronaldo has scored against every team he has faced in Serie A in the last year and a half so that is 23 different teams with the 3 that went down last season and now the two that came up this season. When myself and @Ashez planned this challenge we felt it would be unfair if you missed scoring against a team that got relegated you would have to rely on the game promoting them again. That’s why we went with 20 different teams to ensure it was a bit more fair but was as close to what Ronaldo has done as possible.
2. It stops the temptation of people setting an impossible score to beat in one season as you need to keep playing the guy even if he has scored against all the league in his first season so he stays happy and keeps his attributes.

Does own goal count.. he scored against his own team too.. 🤪

[FlexBrendt]

Final Update :

So we earned promotion and won 3.Liga, now we are competing in Bundesliga 2.

To complete the challenge we need a goal from Chota, which we get in very first game of the season against VFM Bochum.

Final Scorecard :

Challenge Score : 20/20

Challenge Matches : 39 ( 38 season 1 + 1 season 2)

Challenge Team : 1. FC Kaiserslautern (3.Liga)

Challenge Player : Mustafá Abdesalam Mohand aka Chota (Age 44)

Thank you everyone for reading.. See you around..!

Edited January 27, 2020 by FlexBrendt

[Ian]

Did he keep up his streak of scoring in every single game for the second half of the first season?

[FlexBrendt]

1 hour ago, Ian said:

Did he keep up his streak of scoring in every single game for the second half of the first season?

I went on holiday for other half of the season.. Team was good enough not to drop ball after 7 point lead after first half.

to answer the question, AI played him in only one game after that, in which he did not score.