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In the next expansion, all leagues will be simulated in all countries of the continent - from Amateur to Premier (previously only the highest league was simulated in other countries).

Combined with the possibility to move to other clubs, there is a chance for the emergence of more interesting personal stories that only happen to you.

Today I want to tell you about one of the interesting stories that happened in my last test campaign.


[h3]Part 1 - Meet the Outsider[/h3]
As the coach of Brighton, I led the club to the Premier League, and after the next season, I was even able to qualify for the European Cup.

Looking through the results of the qualifying matches, I saw that unknown to me Sogndal knocked Barcelona out of the tournament.



I was surprised and decided to see what kind of club it was.

It turned out that the result was not accidental. Sogndal began to actively develop and from an outsider turned into one of the top clubs in the Norwegian Premier League:



[h3]Part 2 - I felt the power of Sogndal on my own skin[/h3]
I really enjoyed my 4 years in Brighton. The management never put pressure on me. It was enough for them that I did not get kicked out of the Premier League. Instead, I took third place twice and even won the European Cup.

Naturally, I was noticed by more famous clubs. I received an invitation to lead Barcelona. The club's management was very ambitious. They wanted me to win European Cup as they saw I already have won it with another club.

Despite the fact that most AI clubs are not very well managed, to my surprise Barcelona was staffed with great footballers. I immediately started winning all the matches of the Spanish Premier League. To understand the strength of my club, here are the league standings, in which I was 7 points ahead of Madrid before the end of the first round (Madrid, btw, was very powerful as well):



The irony of fate was that in the same season in the European Cup group stage, one of the rivals was Sogndal. It is a significantly weaker club than most Spanish clubs. Not even compared to me. Therefore, I didn't have a doubt that I will play better than AI in the previous season.

Now imagine my surprise when Sogndal won Barcelona again :D



Their goalkeeper became the player of the match, making 3 great saves.

[h3]Part 3 - Sweet Revenge[/h3]

Naturally, I decided that I would not let some upstart stand in my way.

To be frank, I also recalled how in 1997 the real Barcelona wanted to take revenge on Dynamo Kyiv in a similar way for the defeat in a home match. But they did not succeed, Dynamo won the second match with an even more devastating score. These were the times when the star of Andriy Shevchenko shone on the football horizon.

But Sogndal did not have such a star footballer. Therefore, I was able to please my fans with a scoring extravaganza:




Sogndal finished second in the group that season. This was the last time a Norwegian club had such success in continental tournaments:

Well, here's a graph showing the history of my coaching career:



I started the game in Ukraine. After a successful career in the lower leagues, I was invited to a good Italian club, Cremona. There we played quite well in the First League for several seasons. I have earned enough reputation to be invited by a club from England.

Despite the fact that Brighton was quite strong, the management just wanted me to play well in the First League. But my ambitions were much higher, and I brought the club up. And after the victory in the European Cup, I've got an invitation from Barcelona.

In my first season in Barcelona, ​​I failed the task: I could not win the European Cup. But since the season as a whole was not a failure (victory in the league and second place in the cup), I managed to persuade the management to give me another chance. We signed a 3-year contract whereby I have to win any 2 trophies every year.

It's a coincidence, but I spent 4 seasons in each club.




I sometimes write notes from my stories on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/HkT8FC7sr4

Also, in the channel #🏗 Beta 👔 Manager's Journey Stories one of the players who've got access to the beta version of the game, writes his own coach story. It might be interesting to read because he describes the game from the player's perspective: how it's played, what is the interface etc. So it's worth checking out.

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When we started developing the Manager's Journey DLC, we thought that if we introduce the ability to move from club to club, then it would be quite logical to also combine this mechanic with the ability to become a coach of the national team.

But in the course of development, the more we tested new mechanics, the more we realized that if we go along the intended path, the potential of the mechanic of moving to other clubs will not unlock its potential.

Previously, the game was based on long-term planning. You could be losing, relegating to a lower league to gain strength, etc. Now you will need to complete short-term president's goals. This is a very interesting feature, and while we are testing it, we have great pleasure in seeing how the game has changed. But fulfilling short-term goals requires adding additional mechanics to the game that we did not plan before. Without these mechanics, there is a feeling that something is missing.

For example, the management of a club that occupies a middle position in the league gives you the task to advance to the next league. You win some matches but it is hard to perform the task with the team you have. You don't have time to put together a great team because great teams can't be built in one season.

If there were additional opportunities, you could motivate the footballers before a difficult match so that they play a little beyond their capabilities. Or you could ask the president of the club for money to buy an expensive footballer. Or you could cheer on an injured footballer who is very important to the team. As a result, he would be able to return to the team more quickly.

And so, we stopped at a crossroads.

1) If we follow the intended path, the expansion will include moving the coach to other clubs and national teams. However, until the moment a player can become a coach of the national team, he will have many seasons to build his career, and he will lack the strategic opportunities to influence the success of his club. And when managing the national team, there will be even fewer opportunities, since there is no development of the club.

Additionally, the implementation of national teams will take longer as we will have to implement more changes to the game engine. So the expansion would come out 2-3 months later than planned (will be moved to 2022).

2) Or we will follow the path of replacing national teams with other mechanics that will make the experience of a coach's life more interesting and the game even more replayable. The game would really feel like a coach's journey.


This decision was difficult.

We understand that from the side of the players it seems that the national teams themselves will add the game more fun.

But seeing the game from the inside, playing the already made mechanics, we went the same way as we used to go before: if there is a choice between a) what will make the game more interesting and b) what sounds good on paper, but in practice does not make the game so interesting (as we accustomed by our standards), we choose the path of a more interesting game.

It was the same as the last time when we changed our plans during the development of the Football Stars expansion. We implemented the Giftedness mechanic then, even though we did not initially plan to do so. It resulted in an interesting expansion that adds a lot of depth to the game.

We really hope that our reputation of developers who put gameplay and fun at the forefront will lead you to believe that changing plans is for the better.


As previously promised, you will be able to move from club to club. Each club now sets goals for you for one or more seasons. Successful completion of the task increases your reputation, as a result of which more and more prestigious clubs begin to take interest in you.

Instead of national teams, we will introduce coach levelling mechanics and a large number of new mechanics (coach abilities).

You will gain experience after each match. The amount of experience will depend on whether you win, lose or draw. Also, the amount of experience will be affected by the tournament in which you play.

When you gain enough experience, you will level up. You will be able to choose from several random coaching abilities. But it will also be possible to get money or glory (sometimes, these resources might be very useful in the short term).

Examples of coaching skills:

• Possibility to motivate footballers before the match or before the second half.
  
• Ability to mark the next match as the most important match of the season (which will motivate the footballers even more).
  
• Possibility to receive young footballers of the required class from the Youth Academy.
  
• Ability to cheer up injured players.
  
• Ability to speed up skill training by a certain number of days or conduct special training, after which the footballer will earn more specialization points in the next match.
  
• Possibility to ask the president for money.
  
• And other mechanics...
  

While we expect to receive negativity from players waiting for national teams, we still want to understand the overall mood of our players. Therefore, please write in the comments what you think about the changes.

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We continue to fix minor bugs to make your experience even more enjoyable:

• In some rare cases, footballers received less experience than required. We found the cause and fixed it.
  
• Sometimes the game could crash after the match. This was due to incorrect accrual of experience. Fixed.
  
• In a hot seat tournament, on rare occasions, the game might have crashed in the second leg of the cup. Fixed.
  
• In some rare situations, in a hot seat tournament, the AI ​​did not want to take control of the team. Fixed.
  
• If you exit the cup celebration animation during the transition to a dark screen, the entire screen may remain black in the next match. Fixed.
  
• The incorrect tooltip on how the Heading talent works has been fixed.
  
• Several typos in Turkish have been fixed.
  

Have a good game!

Recently, we have met a crash which happened because, in French and Czech, the tournament names weren't correctly translated. Fixed those problems so the game won't crash in these situations.

Also, fixes some typos in different languages.

Additionally, changed "+20%" to "+20" in the description of Aggressive Tackle in Footballpedia.

Recently, we remade the internal text system, and after that, we have updated Football Stars to support our latest texts format.

But it turned out that this system removed blank lines in many messages, hints, etc.

Therefore, we updated the game again, returning blank lines. We also fixed a very rare bug that caused the game to crash after the match.