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The '''Spamming Spammers''' are an unimportant team stuck in the lowest division of the [[USA]]. They were founded on June 1st, 2007 by an impatient manager with two previous failed teams under his belt. Whether this one will go anywhere remains to be seen but it has already been a bigger success than the previous two.
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| class="fn org" colspan="2" | '''Spamming Spammers'''
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| colspan="2" |  [[Image:spam.jpg]]
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|Country: || {{Flagicon|USA}} [[USA]]
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|Founded: || 6/1/2007
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|History: || '''VI.256''' <br>'''V.19'''<br>'''IV.10'''<br>'''III.11
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|- style="background: #e3e3e3;"
! colspan="2" | Stadium
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| colspan="2" | Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam arena<br><small>(55,000 seats)
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! colspan="2" | Trophies
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| colspan="2" | {{divVI}}  {{divVI}} {{divV}} {{divIV}}
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The '''Spamming Spammers''' are an unimportant team in division III of the [[USA]]. They were founded on June 1st, 2007 by an impatient manager with two previous failed teams under his belt. Whether this one will go anywhere remains to be seen but it has already been a bigger success than the previous two.


=='''Team history'''==
=='''Team history'''==
*'''Getting started'''
==='''The bottom feeding years'''===
**After taking over midway through season 32 the management decided training keepers would be a good way to get a competent team on the field. A reasonably priced 18 year old Chile named Javier Udaeta was purchased for a mere $43,000 to be the starting keeper. Nothing interesting happened the rest of the season and the Spammers ended up finishing 5th in the series while filling the team with cheap mercenaries to keep them reasonably competitive.  
After taking over midway through season 32 the management decided training keepers would be a good way to get a competent team on the field. A reasonably priced 18 year old Chile named Javier Udaeta was purchased for a mere $43,000 to be the starting keeper. Nothing interesting happened the rest of the season and the Spammers ended up finishing 5th in the series while filling the team with cheap mercenaries to keep them reasonably competitive.  


*'''Always a bridesmaid'''
Season 33 was the first full season under the new management and would immediately prove to be much more eventful than season 32. When the season started with a cup match several players appeared noticeably younger than they were at the end of last season. Two of those players were the club's keeper trainees: Javier Udaeta and Hu Hangping. How they found the fountain of youth remains a mystery but the 6 weeks of extra youth was a welcome surprise. Another surprise was the team's performance. After getting blown out in the cup and losing two of the first four games another mid table finish seemed inevitable. Instead they won 6 of the final 10 matches and ended up with 30 points and 2nd place. Real Pudge had a perfect 42 points and promoted to division V leaving the title up for grabs in season 34.  
**Season 33 was the first full season under the new management and would immediately prove to be much more eventful than season 32. When the season started with a cup match several players appeared noticeably younger than they were at the end of last season. Two of those players were the club's keeper trainees: Javier Udaeta and Hu Hangping. How they found the fountain of youth remains a mystery but the 6 weeks of extra youth was a welcome surprise. Another surprise was the team's performance. After getting blown out in the cup and losing two of the first four games another mid table finish seemed inevitable. Instead they won 6 of the final 10 matches and ended up with 30 points and 2nd place. Real Pudge had a perfect 42 points and promoted to division V leaving the title up for grabs in season 34.  


*'''History repeats itself'''
The next two seasons were more of the same. The Spammers finished second to stinkyfeet both times and couldn't get over the hump until they promoted out of the league. With the main competition gone, the Spammers won the title two years in a row, winning a qualifier the second time to advance to V.19
**The next season looked like it would be a three way fight for first between stinkyfeet, OAKLAND DYNAMITES, and Spamming Spammers. All three teams performed very well. Each one finished with over 30 points and huge goal differentials in their favor but stinkyfeet came out on top despite losing both matches to the Spamming Spammers. A shocking loss in the second week to the young Cambridge Football Club along with disappointing draws against groupo extreme (later FC Prestonburg) kept it from being a potentially great season. stinkyfeet went on to lose his qualifier so season 35 was likely to be the same as season 34. Spamstastic forward Björn Hagfeldt was the series leading scorer. The first and only time in club history that a Spammer has received that award.


*'''History repeats itself again'''
==='''Movin' on up'''===
**Despite a season opening loss to main rival stinkyfeet, everything seemed to be going well for the Spammers in season 35. Five consecutive wins followed and weeks 7 and 8 were against a new team that looked easy to blow out. Unfortunately that cockiness backfired in week 7 when the Bay Area Sharks won 1-0 and the second half of the season ended with a series of bad matches and not a single win in the last four weeks. Despite such a disappointing year the team still managed to finish 2nd for the third consecutive season. Some argue that the poor finish was due to a change in the training regime. Javier Udaeta had developed into a supernatural keeper and already turned 21 so training him further wouldn't benefit the team much more. They decided to get even better defensively by working on a group of young defenders. Wingers Esa Simula and Ole Løbeck did not approve of this move because formation changes would put them both out of a job. Løbeck was later sold but Simula expressed an interest in coaching the team in the future so he stayed.
The quality of the competition in V.19 wasn't much better than in VI.256. In their first season in the new league the Spammers finished 3rd after blowing a late season lead.  In season 39 a steady diet of bots and mediocre teams made for an easy trip to the league title and another promotion.


*'''Will things ever change?'''
Life in IV wouldn't be quite so easy.  With a new training program and a new coach the team lost 8 of its first 9 games. In the end the coach's strategy of conserving team spirit while the new trainees developed paid off as the team went on 4-1-0 run to finish the season and avoid auto-relegation. The qualification match was a close one but the Spammers ultimately prevailed with a golden goal in the 93rd minute. The next followed a similar path. A slow start in season 41 left many fans wondering if the team had what it takes to stay alive in IV. Luckily some teams went bot or just gave up mid-season so the Spammers were able to destroy them and save team spirit for the competitive games at the end. This strategy gave the team its 4th title in 6 years and sent them up to III. Just two promotions away from Major League.
**The team made significant midfield upgrades in between seasons after hiring the brilliant Emil Naray and outstanding Christian Stolfi in an attempt to offset the team's lackluster scoring. For the moment it appears to be paying off since the team is tied for first with 25 points but wins on goal differential. Even if they can hold on to first it will take a qualification match to promote.
 
==='''Real competition'''===
To be determined.
 
=='''Youth squads'''==
Several previous experiments with both the youth squads and youth academies had mixed results. No promising candidates ever came from the academy and the youth squads only produced a few transferable players per year. The most recent experiment with the youth academy has been much more successful. Although the profit from youth sales hasn't come close to making up for the $800k+ spent on the academy so far, there are several promising players in the system who should generate large amounts of money for the mother club.  


=='''Best players'''==
=='''Best players'''==
Ludwig Ruegy <br> 
23 years and 46 days<br>
Has weak experience and poor leadership abilities.<br>
Total Skill Index (TSI):  55 460<br>
Wage:  24 348 US$/week including 20% bonus<br>
Stamina: '''excellent'''     Keeper: disastrous<br>
Playmaking: inadequate     Passing: '''excellent'''<br>
Winger: wretched     Defending: weak<br>
Scoring: '''supernatural'''     Set pieces: inadequate<br>
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Javier Udaeta <br>   
Javier Udaeta <br>   
22 years and 44 days, solid form<br>
22 years and 44 days<br>
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities.<br>
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities.<br>
Next birthday:  11-13-2008<br>
Nationality:  Chile<br>
Total Skill Index (TSI):  45 990<br>
Total Skill Index (TSI):  45 990<br>
Wage:  22 735 US$/week including 20% Bonus<br>
Wage:  22 735 US$/week including 20% Bonus<br>
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Emil Náray  <br>
Rodrigo Aldunate <br>  
TSI = 6 030 , 30 years and 58 days, passable form<br>
25 years and 58 days, solid form<br>
Has '''excellent''' experience and poor leadership abilities '''[Powerful]'''<br>
Has solid experience and poor leadership abilities.<br>
Total Skill Index (TSI):  40 150<br>
Wage:  11 988 US$/week including 20% Bonus<br>


Stamina: passable     Keeper: disastrous<br>
Stamina: '''solid'''     Keeper: disastrous<br>
Playmaking: '''brilliant'''     Passing: poor<br>
Playmaking: '''excellent'''     Passing: weak<br>
Winger: weak     Defending: passable<br>
Winger: world class     Defending: passable<br>
Scoring: weak     Set pieces: poor<br>
Scoring: weak                 Set pieces: wretched<br>


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=='''Performance by year'''==
 
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José Victor Pérez <br>
TSI = 6 570 , 21 years and 28 days, inadequate form<br>
Has poor experience '''and solid''' leadership abilities '''[Technical]'''<br>
 
Stamina: '''excellent'''     Keeper: disastrous<br>
Playmaking: inadequate     Passing: passable<br>
Winger: inadequate     Defending: wretched<br>
Scoring: '''outstanding'''     Set pieces: poor<br>
 
 
 
 
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| colspan=12 align=left| '''''Performance by season''''' || width=50px|  
| colspan=12 align=left| '''''Performance by season''''' || width=50px|  
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
| Season || align=left| Series || align=center| Rank || Rounds || W || D || L || GF || GA || GD || Pts || align=center| Hatstats || LS || Stars ||
| Season || align=left| Series || align=center| Rank || W || D || L || GF || GA || GD || Pts || align=center| Hatstats || LS || Stars
|-  
|-  


|-  
|-  
| align=center| '''32''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''5''' || 5 || 2 || 0 || 3 || 13 || 15 || -4 || 20 || 77.2 || 1.55 || 21.7 ||
| align=center| '''32''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''5''' || 2 || 0 || 3 || 13 || 15 || -4 || 20 || 77.2 || 1.55 || 21.7
|-  
|-  
| align=center| '''33''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''2''' || 14 || 10 || 0 || 4 || 43 || 22 || +21 || 30 || 97.7 || 3.16 || 27.2 ||
| align=center| '''33''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''2''' || 10 || 0 || 4 || 43 || 22 || +21 || 30 || 97.7 || 3.16 || 27.2
|-  
|-  
| align=center| '''34''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''2''' || 14 || 10 || 3 || 1 || 58 || 13 || +45 || 33 || 115.9 || 5.53 || 32.6 ||
| align=center| '''34''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''2''' || 10 || 3 || 1 || 58 || 13 || +45 || 33 || 115.9 || 5.53 || 32.6
|-  
|-  
| align=center| '''35''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''2''' || 14 || 8 || 3 || 3 || 35 || 13 || +22 || 27 || 124.6 || 6.22 || 35.6 ||
| align=center| '''35''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''2''' || 8 || 3 || 3 || 35 || 13 || +22 || 27 || 166.7|| 6.22 || 35.6
|-  
|-  
| align=center| '''36''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''?''' || 11 || 8 || 1 || 2 || 42 || 8 || +34 || 25 || 146.4 || 8.16 || 42.6 ||
| align=center| '''36''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''1''' || 11 || 2 || 1 || 60 || 9 || +51 || 34 || 146.9 || 8.11 || 42.8
|}
|-
| align=center| '''37''' || align=left| '''VI.256''' || '''1''' || 12 || 0 || 2 || 69 || 9 || +60 || 38 || 166.7 || 8.73 || 48.0
|-
| align=center| '''38''' || align=left| '''V.19''' || '''3''' || 11 || 1 || 2 || 53 || 7 || +46 || 34 || 174.4 || 9.25 || 49.3
|-
| align=center| '''39''' || align=left| '''V.19''' || '''1''' || 12 || 1 || 1 || 46 || 4 || +42 || 37 || 208.8 || 11.76 || 53.5
|-
| align=center| '''40''' || align=left| '''IV.10''' || '''5''' || 5 || 1 || 8 || 16 || 27 || -44 || 16 || 237.5 || 17.51 || 54.6
|-
| align=center| '''41''' || align=left| '''IV.10''' || '''1''' || 11 || 1 || 2 || 65 || 15 || +50 || 34 || 254.4 || 20.61 || 58.4
|-
| align=center| '''42''' || align=left| '''III.11''' || '''?''' || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ? || ?
|-}
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[[Category:American Clubs]]

Latest revision as of 20:39, 24 May 2010

Spamming Spammers
Country: USA USA
Founded: 6/1/2007
History: VI.256
V.19
IV.10
III.11
Stadium
Spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam arena
(55,000 seats)
Trophies

The Spamming Spammers are an unimportant team in division III of the USA. They were founded on June 1st, 2007 by an impatient manager with two previous failed teams under his belt. Whether this one will go anywhere remains to be seen but it has already been a bigger success than the previous two.

Team history

The bottom feeding years

After taking over midway through season 32 the management decided training keepers would be a good way to get a competent team on the field. A reasonably priced 18 year old Chile named Javier Udaeta was purchased for a mere $43,000 to be the starting keeper. Nothing interesting happened the rest of the season and the Spammers ended up finishing 5th in the series while filling the team with cheap mercenaries to keep them reasonably competitive.

Season 33 was the first full season under the new management and would immediately prove to be much more eventful than season 32. When the season started with a cup match several players appeared noticeably younger than they were at the end of last season. Two of those players were the club's keeper trainees: Javier Udaeta and Hu Hangping. How they found the fountain of youth remains a mystery but the 6 weeks of extra youth was a welcome surprise. Another surprise was the team's performance. After getting blown out in the cup and losing two of the first four games another mid table finish seemed inevitable. Instead they won 6 of the final 10 matches and ended up with 30 points and 2nd place. Real Pudge had a perfect 42 points and promoted to division V leaving the title up for grabs in season 34.

The next two seasons were more of the same. The Spammers finished second to stinkyfeet both times and couldn't get over the hump until they promoted out of the league. With the main competition gone, the Spammers won the title two years in a row, winning a qualifier the second time to advance to V.19

Movin' on up

The quality of the competition in V.19 wasn't much better than in VI.256. In their first season in the new league the Spammers finished 3rd after blowing a late season lead. In season 39 a steady diet of bots and mediocre teams made for an easy trip to the league title and another promotion.

Life in IV wouldn't be quite so easy. With a new training program and a new coach the team lost 8 of its first 9 games. In the end the coach's strategy of conserving team spirit while the new trainees developed paid off as the team went on 4-1-0 run to finish the season and avoid auto-relegation. The qualification match was a close one but the Spammers ultimately prevailed with a golden goal in the 93rd minute. The next followed a similar path. A slow start in season 41 left many fans wondering if the team had what it takes to stay alive in IV. Luckily some teams went bot or just gave up mid-season so the Spammers were able to destroy them and save team spirit for the competitive games at the end. This strategy gave the team its 4th title in 6 years and sent them up to III. Just two promotions away from Major League.

Real competition

To be determined.

Youth squads

Several previous experiments with both the youth squads and youth academies had mixed results. No promising candidates ever came from the academy and the youth squads only produced a few transferable players per year. The most recent experiment with the youth academy has been much more successful. Although the profit from youth sales hasn't come close to making up for the $800k+ spent on the academy so far, there are several promising players in the system who should generate large amounts of money for the mother club.

Best players

Ludwig Ruegy
23 years and 46 days
Has weak experience and poor leadership abilities.
Total Skill Index (TSI): 55 460
Wage: 24 348 US$/week including 20% bonus

Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: excellent
Winger: wretched Defending: weak
Scoring: supernatural Set pieces: inadequate

Javier Udaeta
22 years and 44 days
Has poor experience and inadequate leadership abilities.
Total Skill Index (TSI): 45 990
Wage: 22 735 US$/week including 20% Bonus

Stamina: excellent Keeper: supernatural
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: inadequate
Scoring: disastrous Set pieces: wretched

Rodrigo Aldunate
25 years and 58 days, solid form
Has solid experience and poor leadership abilities.
Total Skill Index (TSI): 40 150
Wage: 11 988 US$/week including 20% Bonus

Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: excellent Passing: weak
Winger: world class Defending: passable
Scoring: weak Set pieces: wretched

Performance by year


Performance by season
Season Series Rank W D L GF GA GD Pts Hatstats LS Stars
32 VI.256 5 2 0 3 13 15 -4 20 77.2 1.55 21.7
33 VI.256 2 10 0 4 43 22 +21 30 97.7 3.16 27.2
34 VI.256 2 10 3 1 58 13 +45 33 115.9 5.53 32.6
35 VI.256 2 8 3 3 35 13 +22 27 166.7 6.22 35.6
36 VI.256 1 11 2 1 60 9 +51 34 146.9 8.11 42.8
37 VI.256 1 12 0 2 69 9 +60 38 166.7 8.73 48.0
38 V.19 3 11 1 2 53 7 +46 34 174.4 9.25 49.3
39 V.19 1 12 1 1 46 4 +42 37 208.8 11.76 53.5
40 IV.10 5 5 1 8 16 27 -44 16 237.5 17.51 54.6
41 IV.10 1 11 1 2 65 15 +50 34 254.4 20.61 58.4
42 III.11 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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