The Ultimate World Football Manager Game

                                       End of Season Round Up   Having survived relegation with a game to spare I am looking to the future and planning to build a team which can compete better in this league. Firstly I have the last game to get out of the way against relegated Kampong Cham. I will use this to have a look at some of the younger and fringe players, which will help me decide how I am going to re-shape my squad. Match 12- EDC v Kampong  Cham  31/10/20   With survival secured this match against the C-League’s bottom side is a dead rubber, but provides a great opportunity for me to look to the future and for fringe players to stay in my thoughts for the next campaign. I’m hoping for a good performance and 3 points to make our survival look more convincing than it actually was. I also want to end the season on a high.  My team is as below, with Veasna an...

 After Sok and Phanny lit up the C-League against Kirivong it extended our lead to 6 points over Solito Angkhor, who narrowly lost 1-0 against National Defence. Therefore, as long as we can pick up points in the next few games and hope our relegation rivals can drop points we should be OK. This starts with a tricky game against the league leaders, Nagaworld. Board Confidence Somehow my work with EDC in the Cambodian C-League has been noticed thousands of miles away in Bolivia, where my name has been linked with Premier League outfit, ‘The Strongest.’ I strongly denied the rumours as to be honest I have only just started with EDC and want to take them as far as I can. T he pundits seem to think I lack the pedigree to keep them up this season. We’ll see about that Cambodian Gary Neville! To sum up, the board like my attacking style of play with two wingers, Veasna and Suray, but are worried about the amount of goals we are conceding. The board and fans are both looking forward...

                                                                  Phanny Y Rotha is already a legend. I've never asked him what the 'Y' stands for, but in the last match it stood for 'You Beauty!; Brought on for only his second appearance under my regime, he scored what could turn out to be the most important goal of our season. Dara and Chetra deserve some credit for setting up the goal, but Rotha's timing on the run to the far post and his cool finish, squeezing the ball through the eye of the needle between goalkeeper and the upright is the moment of the season so far. Had he missed Solitio Angkhor would have been just one point behind us and with some tricky fixtures coming up against the top teams in the C-League it could have got rather messy. Thanks to Rotha's timely intervention we are four points clear of trouble, b...

  A mixed bag of results has seen us lose two draw one and win one game during my 4-game tenure so far. On our day I believe we can compete with anyone, but there are weaknesses in the team especially in defence. As the next transfer window is not until the end of the season, I have only free agents to sign, of which in a small nation like Cambodia are few and far between. In fact my first player search resulted in no players in any position being available. For now I will have to work with what I have. Our next match is a real six-pointer, against the team directly below us, Soltilo Angkhor. While the North Koreans were running rampant to steal the match from us against Vishaka, our relegation rivals recorded a comfortable 5-2 win over bottom of the table side, Kampong Cham, reducing the deficit between the sides to four points. Therefore a win for them in our forthcoming fixture would cut that to just one point. Then anything could happen...  Match 5- Soltilo Angkhor v EDC...

  The next three matches As I drove into training the day after the Bati Youth defeat I passed a local high school. As the teenagers crossed the road and hung around the school gates, the nightmare of my opening defeat came flooding back, as their youthful striker, Oudoum wheeled away in jubilation at scoring the winner. The celebration had been accompanied by whoops of delight and that sort of immaturity that only 16/17 year olds do on a football field. (If you watch any U19s or U17s football you'll probably know what I mean.) So, to the next game, a team against men, one of the biggest teams in Cambodia and as they are also based in the capital, a local derby against Phnom Penh Crown Game 2- EDC v Phnom Penh Crown (H)  02/08/20 Pre Match Thoughts After the defeat against Bati Youth I cannot take this league lightly. Although we were very unlucky to lose, the FM gods were not on my side, even on my debut game. Crown sit 5 th in the table and look as though they can play. T...