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My name is Joseph Ortiz and I’m Chilean and I live in Santiago. I’m studying translation in the University, so English won’t be a problem. I speak Spanish, English and Portuguese. I have been playing Football Manager since 2008, but I started with this kind of games (when I was looking for alternatives to FIFA games) in 2000 with PC Football 2000 and later, with Championship Manager 2006. I changed to Football Manager because it was faster than the other games.

I support Deportes Ovalle a small team in the Chilean Third Division (that unfortunately nobody has ever heard of), but if we talk about big teams, I’m a big fan of AC Milan and Tottenham and I don’t like Inter (obviously), nor Barcelona.

I decided to manage Hellas Verona, an important Italian team with good training facilities and average youth facilities that is, unfotunately, in the Serie C-1. So, I’m going to try to get them back to Serie A and also, to participate in European Competitions.

It’s media prediction is 5th but Verona has clearly a squad that can get the Serie C1 Championship right away. Though, I have to make small changes first.
I have a lot of faith in Francesco Di Gennaro as a Target Man. I think he is a good player for Serie B, not only Serie C1. I’m pretty sure he will bag a lot of goals this season.

After analyzing the team, I decided to buy a goalkeeper, a central defender, a defensive midfielder and a striker.

The transfers for the summer window are:

I sold Rafael because there are better first team goalkeepers in the market and Giuseppe Ingrassia (a goalkeeper on loan from Palermo) is a good reserve goalkeeper, and since he is in loan, I don’t have to worry about putting him in the first eleven or not.

Carlo Pinsoglio, a very promising goalkeeper coming from Juventus, is going to be my first team regular. If I train him well, he will have the stats of a worldwide reputation keeper.

I signed Bruce Abdoulaye, a Congolese average right defender from Clermont 63, to cover some aspects in defense. He is a natural right defender with good strength, but he can play as a central and left defender too.

I loaned Adam Vass from Brescia, an Hungarian defensive midfielder, with good tackling, work rate and strength stats. He will be very useful in covering spaces in midfield and defense.

And finally, I signed Michael Mifsud for free because I needed a quick stricker to complement Di Gennaro’s good heading. I wanted Julien Toudic from Caen (16 Acceleration and 15 Pace) but Monaco signed him. Anyway, Mifsud will be doing OK in Verona’s team.

I will play with a 4-1-3-2, since I have pretty decent central midfielders and I don’t have any good wingers.

Well, that’s it for now. Next post will include my first official matches as Verona’s manager. I don’t wanna introduce you to friendlies because I always play only one to see how my tactic for the season is going to be, and also because Verona has to play the Italian Cup Qualification Matches, but that is going to be included on the next post too.

Thanks for reading!