That's right folks, I've entered the crazy world of international management. The World Cup was always ludicrously hard to win legitimately in this game, took me bloody ages and then I needed a spectacular squad to do it.
Anyhow. I've never done the African Nations, so when the Algeria and Cameroon posts became available, I went for them. Fortunately I got the latter job.
A respectable performance in the Confederations Cup first of all, clinching a semi-final berth despite being drawn in a group with World Champions Germany, Holland and the slightly less formidible South Korea. A narrow defeat to eventual champs Italy in the semi was a decent effort.
6 months later, and it's to Tunisia for the African Nations. Despite a pair of poor draws with the hosts and the DRC, qualification is achieved. From then on it's plain sailing with large victories up to and including the 5-0 defeat of Tunisia in the final. Easy peasy.
4 months on and it's the World Cup! China, Belarus and England are the group. Deceptively difficult. Belarus are alarmingly good in CM 01/02 as my 0-0 draw can attest too. 3-1 against China is easy and then comes the most glorius moment of my stewardship, the 3-0 obliteration of England, a scoreline that if anything flatters them!
So glory awaits right? A reasonable tie against Uruguay in the 2nd round. DEFEAT!!! The damn "2nd round curse" strikes and no-one apart from Marc-Vivien Foe turns up (ironically). A 2-1 defeat, and it could've been far worse.
That's me done, and I resign from Cameroon and accept the more lucrative role as Portugal manager...
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