Part 240: Interlude Part 1: The Year in Football/Futbol/Fußball/Calcio/Soccer, 2029-2030.

Interlude Part 1: The Year in Football/Futbol/Fußball/Calcio/Soccer, 2029-2030
May 26, 2030

Now that I'm running this on a modern desktop with a solid state drive instead of a creaky, five year old, refurbrished laptop, I'm going to be bringing all the leagues back into the game so that we can see what happens to them as I age from Icon into Legend in retirement. So if you want to see how the Turkmenistani league is doing, all you have to do is ask. I'm pretty sure FM14 doesn't have the Turkmeni league, so that's all you'll be able to ask.

Part 2 will be a rundown of the US Mens National Team, a/k/a USMNT a/k/a US Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I don't quite have that section ready yet and want to prove that unlike George RR Martin I'm really truly making progress towards an end. So here's how everyone unimportant did in the world of Football/Futbol/Fußball/Calcio/Soccer v.2029-2030.

United States



Portland also won the Cascadia Cup, so there was much to cheer in the lower Pacific Northwest. Too bad the microbrew bubble burst of 2027 has left the entire place a ghost town.

Europe


We all know how this went.



It's not incredibly easy to see how things went so wrong, though. The team as a whole played very well over the season. I'm guessing the 11 red cards is what did them in, though. Perhaps I should have thought a bit more about Paul Williams having a 5 in Discipline before handing the keys of a teenage Lamborghini over to him.



Blackburn, the former Premier League champions of 1995, are going to League One for the first time since 1980. Where are you now, Alan Shearer? I mean, you're 70 years old but you're probably still able to sock a few goals past League One keepers. Meanwhile, Crewe Alexandra are coming to the top division for the first time in a history that began in 1877.



We also know how this went, but at least Southampton went all the way to Wembley after topping us.



Oh hey, a trophy. We're all very impressed.



Barcelona appears to have recovered from their swoon which saw them fall from regularly contending for La Liga's title and the Champions League crown. All because they now have American superstar Isaac Parsons, I'm sure.



Ternana don't even appear to be owned by a foreign billionaire. Nicely done, Italian doppleganger.



Wolfsburg has now won three of the last four Bundesliga titles. Break up Neu Bayern!

Continental Tournaments


Fans of the Gunners can't really believe it. They're not supposed to win anything other than St. Totteringham's Day, the Arsenal Participation trophy, and occasionally an FA Cup! Somewhere Arsene Wegner wakes up in a cold sweat, and buys another attacking midfielder.



I kind of want to upgrade to the newer versions of Football Manager, and probably will in the next year or so if I start a new campaign, if just so the winner of the Europa League will get their spot in the next years Champions League.



Atlas of Mexico have been awesome these last couple of years, with a ding-dong 3-3 draw in their home match of the Libertadores final and then a brutal loss that saw Recife put the match out of reach in the final 10 minutes of the first half with three unanswered goals.

International



I think we all remember how this went.



I think we also remember what happened here... Stupid Sexy Stringel.

Next up will be the USMNT rundown, and then I will finally get around to meeting my destiny, one way or another, at the 2030 World Cup.