football manager

I took a break from blogging, and have spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Football Manager 2011.

This game is famous for being an addictive game, but man, is it fun.

I was always a big fan of the Championship Manager series.

The first one that I ever played was Championship Manager 2001-2002 game.

I remember winning the Champions League in that game with To Madeira getting a hat trick against Roma. This at 3am!! Ah, the memories.

On that team, there were other players like Milito, Tsigalko, Fabio Paim, Joao Paiva, Custodio, Jonas Lunden, Ricardo Quaresma. All of them are legends in Championship Manager. It is interesting that in real life only Quaresma became a starter for their teams.

The game is unbelievable, the amount of information is incredible.

Even real life managers like Arsene Wenger, and David Moyes admitted to using the game database to scout players. That should tell you something.

I always play with Benfica and Santa Clara, and another team from other leagues. I have fun trying to find those great players for a bargain, or better yet, promote from the youth squads. Only in a game can Benfica have 8 starters who are Portuguese.

The game this year is a lot of fun, but it can get confusing sometimes. They changed the interface a bit, but overall it is still good.

The only problem with the game is that Franco Jara and Nico Gaitan are "having problems adapting to the squad" and are "having difficulties communicating with the other players because of the language barrier".

Considering that the majority of the Benfica squad are native Spanish speakers, I cant imagine this would be a problem. Hell, eight of the Benfica starters speak Spanish, and six of them are Argentinian like Jara and Nico are.

However, things like this are not enough to take from the overall fun of this game.

Enough for today, let me get back to trying to perfect the 442 diamond formation that Benfica uses in real life. It is as much fun to watch in the game as is in the real world.