Great story. In FM05 i was managing a club team, can't even remember who it was. Think it was crusaders in the irish league and i got mail saying that Colombia had approached me to be their manager and i thought i'd give it a go even though i only knew 2 or 3 of their players. So off i went into the Copa America. Played a few friendlies and i think i played in the Confederations Cup aswell before the tournament started. Got a relatively easy group and found myself playing Argentina in the quarter final and i thought oh no!!
But i managed to squeeze past them and in the semi's i got Brazil. Beat them 3-2 in extra-time with a last minute goal from a player called Falcao i think! Super striker! Found myself playing Uruguay in the final and i beat them easily! I won the Copa America!!! Couldn't believe it! People in Colombia loved me!
Then i went into the World Cup qualifying and qualified easily enough and got to the 2014 World Cup finals. I got out of the group stage and won the last 16 game and then the quarter final (can't remember who they were against) so i got to the semi finals of the World Cup with wee Colombia! Couldn't believe it!
Played england in the semi's and managed to beat them 1-0 after extra time. Don't know how i did it but i was in the World Cup final against...wait for it....Poland!!!
I thought i could stroll the final but ended up losing it 2-0! I couldn't believe it! To get so far with Colombia and then getting beat by Poland in the World Cup final! Was rippin! But loved managing Colombia! I then resigned after that and i took the Ireland job and lets just leave it at that!
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