Down memory lane...
A number of managers have enjoyed this game and many remember very detailed information from the past, while others were playing for fun. No matter what your story is, having played the game in the old days and to see it alive now must trigger something inside you. Some say happiness...
We asked managers, about their history of then and now. Here is a selection of interviews with random managers. We can not guarantee any of this being actually true but we leave that to you to consider...
Luis Costa, manager of Bayern München, continued..
In Fulltest, I just manage one team, Leicester and in the first season I fell in the second division. So, I tried to learn the Game and with great effort, because Leicester was a little club with a very small stadium, I won a Premier League, a UEFA Cup and played a CL final against Barcelona, that I lost 0-1. After several seasons, the time started to be little, lot of work, family life and I had to stop playing… but they were great times, when there were no mobile with internet... but a lot of managers, with a lot of trading, in that time the market worked. I think at that time there were about 800 managers, but also we were several days without Game because the server fell very times.
Later, after going many years, having married, having two children, (I think in April 2015) I got a message from my brother, saying that the game was back. So I spread the message and We returned all over again and we played like never before, again, like never before… I started by choosing again the Leicester (love problems), but quickly I chose a new love…
Sedan (again a small team, again a small stadium). So I stared to build a team and when it was beginning to be a Team, the game was over.
On this New Age, you know everything, a few managers, a little market, new rules (sometime unclear) and so on…For the first time I could build a great team, I think the best in the Game or one of the best. But I also know that now I began with more resources than ever before. In this Age, I have mixed feelings, a great pleasure in managing a great team, but also some sadness for the game appear unclear rules for most of the community. I sincerely wish that the game rules be clearer for everyone and that there are no these “gray clouds”...
If I had to summarize the 3 seasons in a few words would be like this:
Fulltest: The first love / The discovery / Pure play
CH2: The return / The game played at the limit / The Game in Iphone, the Game everywhere
Pledgers: Just for really lovers
Anyway, I would like to thank BK to have been able bring back the game.
PS - I hope that Blatter and Platini let me win the CL this year.
Fabio Branco Vaz de Oliveira, Engineer and Physicist, PhD in Materials Science, 49 y.o., and I´m from São Paulo, Brazil.
Yes, I was the manager of Panathinaikos in Soccersim for a long time, almost 13 to 14 seasons (I don´t remember for sure). I also was a manager of some other teams, but for a few seasons, like Ado den Haag, Wisla Krakov, Austria Salzburg, and the last team was Hannover, at the time the game closed. In Eurotest I managed Sartid and Tenerife, and other team from Germany, I don´t remember.
I knew about the game Soccersim from some colleagues here in São Paulo. I knew about the reopening of the game from Internet and Facebook, by myself.
I joined the game because I love soccer and I really enjoy Soccersim / Managersim. My choice for the team was oriented by the level the game enabled me to manage, and also by the quality and number of players, among other factors.