Asunto: US National Team

Updated several of my players...we'll see.

I have decided to run for the manager of the U20 team. I have played since the beginning, developing a D3 team into a top tier D2 team that could stay in D1 if I wanted to. I think that I could do well as the manager if given the chance.

I threw my best American player, Gil McCloud on there. I doubt he'll make the U18 team sitting at 413 overall right now, mostly because my facilities aren't quite up there yet, but his EQ is 77 with shooting included. Damn technique drags it to hell or it'd be over 80 easy.

again, we still don't know what we have to work with. He may be our star player, who knows. So please feel free to add as many players as you want

In that case, I had tried adding one more player, but it kept returning an error saying he couldn't be added. I did everything the same. Is there any specific info I can give you to figure out the problem?

Sorry to respond to myself, but I tried something and it seems to be only Alfred Felske (Alfred Felske in case I linked incorrectly) I can't add to the database, if that helps.

I added three of my good 17 and 18 year old's. It would be cool one day to have one of mine play...Good luck though.

Guys, let me see what you think the U18 and U20 teams should be. Would you want them to try and win trophies if possible? Or would you want the teams to play players that have a higher potential, thus helping the senior team?

Trophies.

odd, i'll scout him and try it, and see what I can find out.

I appreciate it. I'm not sure that he'll make the team even as a reserve, but I'd rather have him in the talent pool and not be needed than leave him out if he's deemed useful for some reason. Mostly I'm just curious as to why it only returns an error for him though, and I don't feel like scouring the source code for whatever difference there might be.

To JOJO- Trophies would be nice, but if chemistry carries over, I'd almost prefer to use it as a development tool to funnel future stars into the Senior team and try to move up to the top division instead of staying a tier 2 country.

I'm on the development side as well. Now that said, I have a feeling that at this point, the team that could win us any trophies may closely mirror the team that helps development. It may be a good idea to have a sort of hybrid, especially on the u18 team. Guess it all depends on what we have.

Trophies. Absolutely trophies.

This isn't a developmental league.

I think with 40 players on a team and you can pull up 25 for a game that we should have a core job of 30 that go for the trophies and 10 we put on the team to see if they will develop.

That seems reasonable. I think reverist had a point. Who's to say the two approaches to the team are mutually exclusive?