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An 85 m econ rebuild |
The reconstruction of Die Nationalmannshaft was done over a summer. Old ideas felt obsolete and new ones were needed to once again build the team that has been through so many changes the last few years.
Let's start from the beginning, shall we. Back in -08 Oggygroggy started a club for his own amusement. The club, then humbly called Oggygroggy, was a way to get closer to the sport he loved so much, and this time not as a player but as a coach and trainer. The team was a mix of a few local youngsters, some friends of Oggy and some former, pretty decent, semi-elite players.
The team was up and down of div 8 the first five seasons or so until Oggy surprisingly decided to go Finnish. After a summer vacation in Finland the club turned into a talent factory for young Finnish players. The club started to draw attention to it in local newspapers as results improved and young mega-talent Manu Ovaskainen was selected in Finland’s U21-team. This was in the summer 2010.
A few seasons later the team had an estimated value of bout 200 m econs and expectations was enormous from an ever-growing fan base. The summer of 2011 coach Oggy was on a new vacation, this time in Italy, and left the team pretty much on its own for a few weeks. When he returned he was devastated to see all the players so tremendously out of shape. The same night he decided not to continue the campaign for the top division. At the end of season 28, all players were transfer listed and left later that season. Ovaskainen was sold for a record of 35 m econs.
By season 32, after four seasons of terrible results and no bigger signings, there was rumors that coach Oggy had put most of the money from selling the players into his own pockets. Oggy responded that most of the money was invested to improve administration around the club and was saved for future arena-projects.
The same season the team was contacted by a multi-international-global-mega-german-company. They came with money and they came with a new demand: change the name to Die Nationalmannshaft, sort of like Red Bull Salzburg, and players must use nicknames of old German football legends. Fans were confused...
After this summer’s world cup-win for the real Nationalmannshaft the company’s interest in the club decreased radically, and just weeks after Lahm lifted the world cup-trophy, the company left the team. Players wanted to leave the team and yet again the club was facing great changes.
This is where we are at the moment. The team reinvested more than 85 m econs from selling players this summer on new young talents. We don’t expect to see any results from the squad in 5-6 seasons but hopefully then the climb for Xtreme League starts. And we don't expect the club to keep its name after this season so coach Oggygroggy got some some decision-making to do until next season starts.
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