FIFA 06 - Austrian Qualifications

One of the smallest tournaments in the game, but with some big names! Austria Magna (Wien), Rapid Wien, Sturm Graz, Red Bull Salzburg..., all this guys mean something in the football world. And most defenetly one of them will play in the finals. Who will it be this time? The one that had the best man for the job in attack, thats for sure. I'm talking Roland Linz, Austria best forward in those days. This guy was the anwser in the qualifications, will he be the key in the finals? Checkout Austrian highlights.

FIFA 06 - Norway Qualifications

Rosenborg? Valerenga? Molde? NO! Not this time. Most suprising tournament so far as only one of this teams made it even to semi finals. Insted let's focus on Odd Grenland and Aalesunds. If you're not familiar with Norway league you probably did not even heard about that second team. Well you will remeber them after this one for sure as it was a beautiful campain for those guys. Not much to say more, just check out the highlights from Norway...

FIFA 06 - Swedish Qualifications

If you check the highlights you will see that this one started with a good old school goal rumble, finished with some nice series of pens. In Sweden you always look at IFK Goteborg specialy if you're a kid of the 90's. But the shift has changed a bit since then and now we have Djurgardens and Malmoe FF back in the game. Still in will be someone else to play in the big final and suprise or no, they sure deserved that place. Check out why...

FIFA 06 - Swiss Qualifications

Up next in Fifa 06 we lend in Switzerland. Rather small tournament in a small league but yes we have some names you might notice. I promise you a great game between FC Zurich and FC Basel, it's worth to watch the highlights just for that one. Comparing to Korea we had a much better tournament, more goals and emotions. So go further and check out all the goals and scores from Swiss competition.

FIFA 06 - Korean Qualifications

Ok, so we head on in Korea with 13 teams from what they call K-League as I suppose :) If you ask me do I know any korean league players I whould anwser - YES A LOT ACTUALLY. Any names? Just one - Kim :) Enough with the pefetic jokes. I have no idea who is who in this league, but still have a feeling that result of the tournament is a bit of a suprise. So check out the quick review of this one...

Black Managment Fifa 2001 Club Championship FINAL

Barcelona was a sure favorite before the last 8 and even the whole final tournament begin. They had their ups and downs in this tournament but in the final stage they got their groove on. Partrick Kluivert a fresh TOP SCORER of the International Cup, lead the way to the glory, with his great five goals in the final 8. Borussia Dortmund looked good and managed to advance to the final quite easy beating Molde and Strasborug but in the last game it was all about Barca. We can only think how the game whould look like if Dortmund had their Magic Duo in attack, but since Ikpeba gain indjury against Molde, Bobic had to struggle at his own. He did score a few goals, but Ikpeba was surely the missing spark in Dortmund attack. Barca did not take any prisoners in the final game and the score leaves no doubt who is the best team in this tournament. Check out the scores and highlights from the FINAL 8. Got your own memories connected with football games, any interesting managment carriers you want to share with others, comment or send Us your story with screen caps or YouTube links - michelblack.com@gmail.com

Adidas Power Soccer CUP

Fifa 2001 is behind us (last post about the FINAL 8, of Club Championship will appeal shortly), so it's time for next game. Fifa 2003 tournament is still on, but right now we want to play 2-3 smaller competitions before we get back to Fifa's.

First will be Adidas Power Soccer on PSX. The game is from 1996, Adidas is the main sponsor but there is lack of license on many things. The game itself did not made a huge difference on the market but it had it's climate. First of all great intros and inside movies made by Adidas. Those are basicly produts ads, but they are pretty cool and I remeber liking watching them before the game.

Second thing is the Arcade Mode where a lot of weird things happen. You get super sprints and super shoots called PREDATOR KICK (as part of the new Adidas shoes franchise). Game gets intresting, fast and brutal when you put on the Arcade mode. At this point I think I will play the competition on the arcade as simulation could be a bit boring, both to play and to watch on videos...

We got only club teams from Germany (24 teams), France (26 teams) and England (26 teams). Most teams without license, all players without license. We will play regional qualifications in each country and 3 teams will form the final. Final will containg 3 games in mini-group and 2 best teams will play in the big final.

See you in France for the first stage of regional qualifications...

Black Managment Fifa 2001 International Cup FINAL

 From final 8 to just one team holding the cup! Holland did a great job but it was all about emotions! Austria suprised us one more time, England got things even with Argentina and France put on a great show on their road to the final. All in all Hollan in deed was the best team and they fully deserve that trophy. Patrick Kluivert is the name that will be remebred after this competition - he scored like hell and only the end of the game stoped him from scoring even more. The final game was a clash of great players. Kluivert vs. Anelka, Zidane vs. Bergkamp, Petit vs. Overmars and Van der Sar vs. Barthez!!! Check out the scores and highlights from the quaters, semis and the final it self!

BM Fifa 2001 Club Championship - GROUP STAGE

Here we are. 16 teams divided into 4 groups, to fight for the last 8. Check out the great games and goals. Who will be the star of the tournament? Rivaldo? Ljuboja? Masinga? Nikolaidis? Kluivert? Kanchelskis? Who will play in the last 8? Were there any suprises in the group stage? How about the goals? Any epic strikes? Don't wait, click on the post to read more and find out, who will play in the final 8 of the Black Managment Fifa 2001 Club Championship!!!

BM Fifa 2001 Club Championship Play-offs

Now we know everything. 16 teams are selected for the final club tournament. Last 2 of them are winners from the playoffs between Danmark, Sweden, Turkey and Israel. IFK Gothenbourg had a very close game against the danish Midtjylland. After two legs there was a 4:4 draw and since a golden goal extra time did not give any anwsers, game went to the penalties. IFK won 8:7 after an killer shootout and they will play in the finals. Galastasaray had also an close game with Netanya. First game they won at home 1:0. In the second Netanya took an early lead, but in the second half Galatasaray striker Jardel managed to equalise and things did not look good for Netanya. They won 2:1 but Galatasaray scored an away goal wich has given them a place in the final. Unfortunetly there is a little bug in the game. Galatasaray is the only one team in the category "other" in the game and you can't pick that category when creating a CUSTOM CUP, so I decided they will be disqualificated from the competition and Netanya took a place in the final. If you click on READ MORE, you will see the highlights from the playoff games and results of a group stage draw...

Fifa 2001 Italian Serie A Qualifications

Last qualifying tournament, took us to Italy. Only Serie A teams this time, but what more do you need, when you got AC Milan, Inter, Lazio, Roma, Juventus, Parma and Fiorentina i one competition. We had a few classics in this one and a lot of great goals scored by the superstars. But suprisingly no one from the favourites took that place in the final competition. Roma was close, Fiorentina even closer, but the true heroes turn out to be Bari. One of the underdogs of the Serie A, had a time of their lives beating the rest. In the final they won agains Fiorentina after a beautyful goal from the free kick scored by they star striker Masinga. If you still can't belive how that happened, chec out highlights and all the scores from Italy...

Fifa 2001 English Premier League Qualifications

We are almost there. England, Italy and play-off's to go and the finals will start. Football is coming home? Home of the most popular league in the world, that's for sure. Zola, Carbone, Yorke, Beckham, Fowler, Owen, Shearer, Henry, Bergkamp and many, many other football superstars in this one. We got United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcasle looking for the place in the final, but do not forget about others, as anything is possible in this one. Charlton and Derby looked good, taking easy wins in the pre qualify round, but in the first round they had to face some stronger sides. Derby took a confident win against Everton and belive it or not Charlton knock out Manchester United! So will the underdogs took a beating in the final 8 or maybe Arsenal and Liverpool should be worried? Looking for anwsers plus some fine Premier League classics, just click and check out all the highlights from English competition and find out who will represent England in the final tournament...

Fifa 2001 International Cup Last 16

Only 16 teams left and after that were straight in the last 8. Soon we will find out who is the best national team in Fifa 2001. Sensation of the competiton, that is Austria of course, just can't stop suprising. After a great game against Spain, the team now faced Yugoslavia. Again austrians did their job well, this time the game was really close and it was a single goal from Andreas Herzog that made the difference. In other games there were no sensations. I guess the big firms know what they play for and got their groove on crushing their rivals. Thanks to that we got some great classics to come in the final eight, but for now let's see the highlights from the last 16. So check out how Brazil, France and Germany are smashing their rivals. What about Holland, England and Argentina, did they also made it look easy? Read more...

Fifa 2001 French Ligue 1 Qualifications

French league is very equal since a last two decades. We got the famous PSG, Monaco and Marsille, but almost every season some new team pops up. Nantes, Lyon, Lens, Auxerre, Bordeaux all those teams are also considered to be strong and probably aim for the final. So as you can supose the competition was very equal and tight. Guingamp looked good in their first two games winning both with four goals (against Lille and Lens), but in the Quater finals Lyon stopped them. PSG faced Monaco in their first game... and lost with a single goal from Giuly. Strasbourg, St. Etienne, Lyon and Nantes that was the final four. Strasbourg show a great potential lead by their star striker Daniel Ljuboja and a great form from Zitelli. Ljuboja scored hattrick in the semis against St. Etienne and in the final game Strasbourg had to face Lyon. Olympique was a sure favourite but this time Zitelli made the difference. Two heroes of this competition Zitelli and Ljuboja given Strasbourg a suprise but deserved place in the finals.

Fifa 2001 Spanish Primera Division Qualifications

With 4 leagues left, some big names start to show up. You don't need a lot of time to find them in Primera Division. We got Barcelona and Real Madrid the famous arch rivals, who will it be this time? Well, Barca looked good right from the begining, but Real seemed to struggle. Meanwhile there were other teams that also wanted that place in the finals. I'm talking Atletic Bilbao, Real Zaragoza, Sociedad and Espanyol. Real won in the first game but in the quater finals Urzaiz scored them two goals and it was Bilbao who put the famous firm out of the competition. So it was Barcelona vs. rest of the league since then. Catalonians also struggled against Sociedad, but when it came to the final four they shown real power putting seven goals in the rivals net. It was a derby game against Espanyol so you can double the pain it took to carry that kind a score difference. In the final Barcelona had an easy win with Real Zaragoza and you can't call it a suprise, that this team will represent Spain in the finals. Chcec out all the scores and highlights of the games...

Fifa 2001 Interntional Cup 3rd Round

The big firms join the competition. We got Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England etc. This stage will separete man from the boys and let us know who of the so called underdogs can really pretend to the title. Russia, Switzerland and Austria defenetly looked good in their first games. When it came to play with Brazil and France though, first two had to admit rivals skills to score. Austria did not had an easy start against Spain, but in the second half they looked like a totaly different team. Thanks to Weissenberger's fenomenal hattrick they not only came back from the grave but also won in the last minutes of the game, putting Spain out of the competition. Fighting to the end pays off as always in football, chceck out the highlights to these and other games and a lot of great goals in this one.

Capcom's Soccer Shootout (SNES) CUP

A very good, fast, arcade soccer game for SNES, turned into an epic tournament with dozens of goals. We got 12 teams only, with no license so fake names, but with a little knowlage of 90's soccer you can have some clues who is who. Maybe even make a fun quiz out of it. Anyway first round is 8 teams with 4 potentialy stronger starting already in second round. Spain shown a great potential and Holland had an exciting game against Russia. Mexico and Cameroon give a little suprise beating France and Great Britain (no such team in the real life, only in Olympic games). In the second round Germany, Brazil, Italy and Argentina joined the competiton, but strangely only the germans were able to prove they are not only stronger on paper. Italy lost 1:5 against that Mexican thunder, Cameroon took advantage of Argentina and Brazil did not put on a fight against Holland. In the semi finals, Cameroon did the trick again, this time beating Holland and Germany were able to stop Mexico, wich was not easy as you can se on the scoreboard. All in all in the big final a solid and disciplined Germany meet unpredictable and improvising Cameroon. WHAT A GAME! Just look at the score. Cameroon did what they could but Germany was striking back with such a precision. A round of applause for both teams for a great game and all the respect for the German team as they collect another cup.

Fifa 2001 Germany Qualifications

Four best teams (Bayern, Bayer, Borussia D. and Schalke) joined the turnament in the late stage, but that did not mean that nothing happened till then, as those "so called" underdogs put on a nice show. So many suprises so far in Fifa 2001 regional club qualifications, that it whould not be another if someone from outside the top 4 managed to win this. At the begining Kaiserslautern looked strong along with FC Cologne, who's brilliant striker Donov put on a one man show everytime he step on the field. Scoring nine (!) goals in five games he grabbed the golden boot without even trying but did he put his team in the finals? Almost! Cologne was the black horse of this cup and it took Borussia Dortmund to stop them. Before they met Dortmund in the semi final they beat Frankfurt, Bochum, Werder and Schalke - how about that! But in the big final there was place for only two teams and those were Bayern and Borussia - a modern time Bundesliga classic. This time Dortmund was in a better shape so we will se them again in the finals...

Fifa 2001 MLS Qualifications

One of a few non-european leagues in the game so this is an important place in the final. Chicago Fire and DC United were I guess the major pretendents to that golden ticket and they did not dissapoint the fans. Only team that actually could bring a suprise was Miami Fusion, mainly thanks to their striker Lessiter who give the team a lot of confidence in their attacks and produce a key goals. But in the semi final Miami clashed with D.C. United and lost after a close game 1:2. In the final Fire was already waiting for their biggest rival but D.C. was stronger than they could possibly imagine. Chicago will remember this day for long, as D.C. provided them a lesson of counting, when goals kept coming one after another. It ended with four and that was far enough for D.C. to play in the finals.

Fifa 2001 Netherlands Qualifications

Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord. These three teams are always the strong favourites when it comes to Dutch football. In this tournamnet fans were also looking at Arnhem and Alkmaar wich are looking good lately. The tournament seemed to be interesting but who whould ever know that so many suprises will took place. Ajax and PSV lost in their first games! Utrecht took a confident 2:0 win against Amsterdam and Breda managed to pull of a stoppage time goal that give them a suprise win in Eindhoven. Arnhem lost with Heerenveen and Alkmaar had to admint Feyenoord was the better team after 1:2 lost. So basicly in the semi finals Feyenoord was the last man standing when it comes to the favourites and they did not stand long. Heerenveen took their chances and met in the grande finale, check out the highlights and see how it all went...