Today is Presidents' Day. It's actually George Washington's birthday, but it's used to honor the "office of the Presidency".
Washington wasn't the biggest fan of my hometown though so whatever.
I'm a Jimmy Carter man myself.
Up for the Cup! Kinda, I had a ton of injuries to key players after getting really lucky in that department all season. Mokoena and a couple of destroyers got hurt which meant a makeshift engine room against Benfica. Guess how that worked out.
Not bad, actually. I took Nene off for Andrade in desperate search of a goal that never game, eventually I brought Siston on too but he was so unfit that he was never going to make a difference. Props to Nuno Amaro got getting his ass handed to him by Simão, 'preiciate it. Lowery (who I think is a regen) was able to contain Simão in the second half but he offers nothing going forward.
The reinforcements brought in during the January window were good for an improvement of two points from the first half of the season, and a cup final run of course. I still need to add a lot if I'm to make a run at the big teams, they're just *so* much better than everyone else. Look at that gap.
I thought I drew a lot but look at Sporting and Braga!
You can see the run of draws here, and of course the losses to the big teams. The young Mexican keeper I bought from Pumas is developing into a bit of a star.
I was offered jobs at DC United, New York, Braga, and Middlesborough during the season but didn't want to abandoned this project.
So I've got the UEFA Cup next year thanks to Benfica winning the league and thus qualifying for the CL.
Meanwhile the USA fans are calling me shit because I only beat Belize 4-1 with Dempsey, Adu, and Altidore all injured. I'm certain that every last one of them is a BigSoccer poster.