The Olympic Games Special

Hello everyone, welcome back to my Almeria story, however if you read my last post and the title to this one you might know that is post is about my journey in the Olympic games as the Great Britain u23s manager. With the Olympic games only months away I needed to make sure all was perfect so I had the best changes of winning and getting myself a gold :P. I made sure my squad was made up of the best players I was able to get my hands on and 3 over 23s which I was officially aloud. With all this in mind lets have a look at the players I was taking to the games!

As you can see not many players outside of England, well to be brutally honest the English players are better and I really want that gold soo... My 3 over 23s player were Joe Hart, Michael Dawson and Wayne Rooney. I needed a good goalie and a strong athletic Defend due to the attacking force which were in the competition e.g Neymar, Pato, Calvani, Doumbia and many more. The Olympic games finally came and we were put in group B with Japan, Ghana and Uruguay. In which we won 2 and of 3, drawing against Japan 1 - 1 in the finally group game.

After coming top in the group stage we we then matched against Costa Rica who placed 2nd in group. However good news aside, Wayne Rooney will miss the rest of the competition due to a straight red which results in a 3 match ban.

FORMATIONS AND PLAYERS

Result!

Cracking result, great performances from the lads, especially Sturridge, grabbing 2 goals for the team. Annoyling Albrighton was injured during the game and will miss the semi finals but will be back for the final if we make it that far. So with the Quarter's out of the way we now venture off to the semi's against underdogs of the competition Switzerland.

FORMATION AND PLAYERS

Result!

It was an okay performance, even though we won 2 - 0 Switzerland played very well, applying pressure throughout the match and we only managed to score in the 1st half due to a couple of easy mistakes by Switzerland, so overall they were a strong adversary and Im proud we made it in the final against the big boys BRAZIL!

FORMATION AND PLAYERS

Result!

As you can see we destroyed them. What a quality game 4 - 1 against a strong, skillful Brazil side. But my boys were on fire. Our attacking plays was fantastic really showing great movement of the ball and strong defending breaking down Brazilian attack quickly, it was honestly one of the best finally I have ever been involved in.

Competition Overview 

Player Stats Goals

Assists

Average Ratings

Competition Tree

Thats it is from me for this post, after the brilliant championship win, I promptly resigned from the role and now focusing on the season ahead with Almeria, Thank you so much for reading and have a nice day.