Football Manager 2013 Stories

2012 is almost over. Let me help you to remember the best goals of the outgoing year. Here you will find amazing overhead kicks by Ibrahimovich, Mexes, Falcao, beatuiful runs from Neymar and Messi, “Van Basten”-like goal by Taison and others.

Happy New Year!

With best regards,

Vitaliy Mokosiy

Shakhtar gets victory over last year’s Champions League winner making more than 20 shots and 5-7 clear cut chances and scoring 2 goals.They did what Barcelona hadn’t managed to do.

I am so proud for our Ukrainian football! Hope to see Shakhtar winning the tournament this year! Real chance for our country!

I could not refuse myself to post these amazing real life goals here.

TOP 10 Best Goals of the Season 2011/2012… ?? GOTW

So which one did you like the most of all?

Finally, I returned to Kyiv after amazing trip over Poland. Have been on two matches:- Poland – Greece- Czech Republic – Greece

You may find many nice photos of both matches at my main blog.

Meanwhile I am about to continue managing Q.P.R. in Football Manager 2012

Hey guys,

Well, with all of the “real football” posts that have been going around recently I thought I would hope onto the bandwagon, with my thoughts on the Granada saga, which is apparently dominating Spanish football discussion at the moment.

The Background

OK, I won’t do  a history of the club , but rather, a little bit of a run up to the issue I am coming to.

This season (2011/12), three new teams will be in the Liga BBVA, after winning promotion from the Liga adelante. Normal so far. The two automatically promoted teams were Rayo and Real Betis, as expected. Normal so far. The next team was a bit more of a surprise, Granada. A team many pundits tipped for mid-table obscurity as usual.

Now, I have nothing against a bit of an underdog coming up and beating all of the odds, but not when they do it this way…

What way?

The Granada president Quique Pina was a former football agent and has very close ties to Udinese calcio in Italy. Since becoming president of Granada, he has established very close ties with Udinese which has resulted in Udinese wiping off Granada’s debts and providing them with cash injections and, in essence, creating their wage and transfer budget.

The worst thing, however, is their loan deal. 11 of Granada’s players in the promotion squad were actually from Udinese…

This included:

Odion Ighalo- scorer of the goal that clinched promotion

Alex Geijo- scored 24 goals in 34 games

John Menash

and more…

Now, in my opinion this is ridiculous. Granada essentially have no squad, relying solely on these loanees and, as such, they represent nothing about Spanish football, but actually more about the prevalent mercenary attitude in football, with a club losing [...]

Just several thoughts about the Final.

I spend a great time in one of Kyiv beer pubs watch the Champions League final. Excellent game! Though I expected Manchester United would be more dangerous and unpredictable in attack. Barcelona is the strongest club of Europe and the whole world at the current moment. And Messi is the best footballer! They took away a ball possession and dictated the game. I want also to praise Pepe Guardiola who managed to convert team of stars into “star team”!

P.S. Bye, van der Sar! Thanks for everything!