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*[[image:P1 brown-new.gif]] Series [[VI.101]] | *[[image:P1 brown-new.gif]] Series [[VI.101]] Season 32 Champions | ||
===Youth Honors=== | ===Youth Honors=== | ||
Revision as of 22:44, 4 February 2008
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| Founded | 2006 | |||
| League | USA | |||
| Region | Boston | |||
| Stadium | Magic Park | |||
| Coach | Template:Flag/ESP José Antonio Albelda | |||
| HT User | ucdawg12 | |||
| All-Time Leaders* | ||||
| Goals | Jackie Crouch, 21 | |||
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Moon Magic FC is an American Hattrick soccer team from the Boston region. The team competes in VI.101 and plays their home games at Magic Park.
History
Pre-Apocalyptic Era
During late 1880s and up until the late 1920s Moon Magic FC was one of the most storied and intimidating clubs in the world, if not the entire galaxy*. The club won many honors and fans with their clean image and charming smiles. In 1926 they became the first club to float on the stock exchange which brought a windfall of revenue which resulted in a historic and short lived period where Moon Magic FC bought every player with a national team cap. Many teams across the world could no longer field teams that could play the game with beauty or even skill. Moon Magic, with a roster well above 900 players, was on top of the world and millions of fans tuned in on their radios just to listen to scrimmages. Other clubs complained because of this "unfair" advantage and hired mediums to curse Moon Magic. The curse would not set in for a few years, but when it did, it took its toll. In 1929 disaster struck the American stock market. Moon Magic's stock plummeted and they could no longer afford their expensive roster. The club was forced to declare bankruptcy and reformed as an amateur side in 1934. Little is known about the team from that point on, besides the present day reformation.
A majority of Americans still believe that it was entirely the fault of Moon Magic's monopolistic ways (and the curse that followed) that caused the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed.
- This is debatable because the Cygnus Arm giants, RS 9881, also had similar success according to journal translations.
Rebirth and Srećko Trman
After centuries of amateur obscurity Moon Magic was bought by a mysterious and tyrannical individual who, through his allegedly illegal government connections, has managed to keep his identity a secret. All that is known about him (by means of recovered sexual harassment documents) is that he is indeed male.
Years of tenuous paper work followed, but in H.S. 30 Moon Magic FC was granted admission into the American Hattrick pyramid and they joined series VI.101. Moon Magic then hired the famous Bosnian commentator and television personality, Srećko Trman. Trman, beloved in his homeland for his quirky style and poor grammar, had no prior soccer experience and it is unknown how he managed to become a soccer commentator in the first place. Despite these short comings, he was unveiled to three Moon Magic supporters at Magic Park at a much hyped press conference days before the season started. Trman's hiring was not without controversy. Many suspected he could not speak English and they wondered how he would manage an American squad. As it would turn out, these suspicions were well founded, Trman could not speak English, he spoke only a non sensible combination of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian.
The first two seasons of Trman's reign were not successful. Srećko Trman had enacted a 'no English speaking' policy which left the squad, mostly American, no way of communicating with each other on the field or during practice. Moon Magic finished 6th in the league during H.S. 30 and 31.
Taste of Glory
Trman was under heavy pressure by Moon Magic supporters and they demanded results in H.S. 32 or, as some claimed, they would punch him in the eye. Trman took these threats to heart and prior to the start of H.S. 32 he declared now that he had "mastered English's of words" that Moon Magic would find success. Seasons of non-vocal communication had created a deep bond among the Moon Magic players and with the no English speaking policy lifted, Moon Magic stormed through their series during H.S. 32. After falling from the poll position in week 6, Moon Magic went on an eight week unbeaten run in which they won back to back Boston derbies against the Boston Red Sox and defeated series rivals Coral Cove FC.
In week 11 Moon Magic would regain the top spot, as Coral Cove dropped points to Raleigh United, just days after Coral Cove had claimed they already had "one hand on the title". The remaining weeks were not for supporters weak of heart as only one point separated Moon Magic and Coral Cove. Moon Magic would not stray from the path, trouncing teams that attempted to stand in their way.
In the final week Moon Magic would have to play top 3 side Raleigh United, a team that had thrashed Moon Magic by four goals in the first week of the season. Cove had already secured their three points thanks to a forfeit. The pressure was solely on Moon Magic, especially after they gave up a soft goal in the opening minutes of the game. A sold out crowd looked on in despair, wondering if now was the time to swallow the pregame giveaway of limited edition Moon Magic percocet pills and end their suffering. But Moon Magic would respond triumphantly with a two minute double salvo by strike force Don Barger and Billy Ray Hays to take the lead. Moon Magic would continue to pile on the pressure with an astounding 74% possession in the second half. Magic fans watched time wind down and Moon Magic prevail, winning their first trophy of any kind in over seven centuries.
Expectations and Disappointment
After Moon Magic's championship season, expectations were high for a repeat performance. Many supporters demanded another championship and sent many death threats to Srecko Trman to follow through. All seemed fine when Moon Magic won their first ever cup game, dominating the Michigan Huns on their own ground 5-2. The first game of the season followed a few days later where Moon Magic lost shockingly to the last season's runner up, Coral Cove FC. The club dominated both halves of possession but would still go on to lose 1-2. Moon Magic then lost their cup game to C.D. Gualleros 0-4. Things were looking bleak for Moon Magic and the season was almost lost on four separate occasions of near misses on Trman's life by professional hitmen. These hitmen would later testify to being 'Cove supporters' and that they intentionally failed their assassination attempts to sabotage Moon Magic's season.
Things would turn around as Moon Magic won their next 8 games. This gave many supporters hope that Magic could nick the title, but as it would turn out this was only fate's attempt to bring greater despair onto Moon Magic by teasing the club with a taste of hope.
The club lost its next home game to Raleigh United despite a fine performance and followed that up with a boring 0-0 draw at the Boston derby against the Boston Red Sox. With these performances, Coral Cove had all but won the championship with three games to play. In a shameless effort to propel Coral Cove into an auto-promotion spot, Moon Magic fielded a team of old immigrant workers in their final game of the season against their rivals and lost 0-10. As Magic's luck would have it this would not be enough to send Coral Cove into V and the Cove boys would choke in their qualifier.
Club colors & crest
The club plays in royal purple and neon carrot striped shirts. These colors were inspired by a postcard the chairman received while vacationing in Malta. The postcard featured a golden hue picture of the infamous acrylic on canvas painting Voice of Fire by Barnett Newman. The chairman became infatuated with the painting, and used up the entirety of the club's transfer budget, $10 million (controversially more than 5 times the asking price of the National Gallery of Canada), to purchase the painting and showcase it at Magic Park. The painting took months for the club to receive and by the time it arrived the club had locked itself into their current royal purple and neon carrot colors. It was not until after the painting finally arrived did the chairman realize his grave mistake, the painting's colors actually resembled something more like blue and red than royal purple and neon carrot, but it was too late. The painting was unveiled before a non-existent audience as many supporters believe the painting symbolizes the power the chairman has to crush dreams and promot despair. Mere weeks after the painting's unveiling, a four year old girl and visiting team supporter put her used gum on the bottom of the painting causing irreversible damage and causing the painting's value to depreciate immensely.
Moon Magic's original crest was a simple, royal purple, circle with a neon carrot rampant tiger in the middle. This was, allegedly, in homage to the original Moon Magic FC of old, but no known photograph of the old crest is known to exist, leaving this claim unverified. In the middle of H.S. 32, after a huge sale on all Moon Magic items, the club announced a new crest forcing loyal supporters to buy all of their club apparel again but at a %200 mark up. The new badge was created solely by the chairman (who has made no mention of any kind of background in graphic design) and he revealed it in announcement that most of the club officials (bar the president of marketing, Timothy Mann) were completely unaware of. The new crest features Moon Magic's Voice of Fire stripe behind the tiger rampant. Moon Magic Football Club was abbreviated to MMFC and for the first time the club introduced the legendary purple moon, the "Magic Moon" that the club was named after. In the press conference Timothy Mann said that the chairman called the new crest, "a masterstroke of brilliance by a genius the world has never before seen." It is unknown whether or not the chairman told Mr. Mann to make this statement knowing that the fans would realize the chairman was talking about himself.
Stadium
Moon Magic FC play their home games at Magic Park, a state of the art stadium built in H.S. 30 that currently holds 21,000. Magic Park is popular hang out place for the younger crowd, supporter or not, as the club obtained permission to serve minors alcohol. Many authorities question the legality of such a practice and rightly so as it is against the law. Magic Park still continues to serve to minors today because any complaint is often lost during processing. Many suspect that this is because the mysterious CEO of Moon Magic has obtained the Rod of Empowerment which renders mere mortals useless against its influence. Although, some ask why hasn't the chairman used this to give the club an advantage on the playing field. The chairman's motives remain a mystery to this day.
Magic Park, originally holding a capacity of 12,000, was expanded to 16,000 at the end of H.S. 32 because of significant ticket demand. In a strange move, the entire stadium was destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up calling some fans to question if it truly was an 'expansion' or if this term has simply been tacked on to escape the luxury tax of building a new stadium within ten seasons of the prior stadium's completion. In an even more bizarre turn of events the club was given a $25,000 rebate by the HFA creating even further suspicion that Moon Magic's chairman is in possession of the Rod of Empowerment. Defendants of the chairman cite examples of thousands of other clubs receiving the same rebate and they cannot all be in collusion with the bearer of the Rod of Empowerment.
Prior to the start of H.S. 34, Magic Park was expanded once more. An additional 5,000 seats were added, bringing the stadium's capacity up to 21,000. The expansion was not without controversy. Many fans protested that the placement of the new seats was nonsensical. This is because the new seats were added to the top of middle of the Copper Sky stand and many fans had hoped the new expansion would create a stand behind a goal. The Copper Sky stand has been infamously called the 'Erection stand' due to the substantial growth observed in its middle region.
Results
| Season | Series | Position | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Notes |
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| 30 | VI.101 | 6th | 14 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 22 | 32 | -10 |
Club Honors
Championships
Series VI.101 Season 32 Champions
Youth Honors
BDF RM League Season 1 Runner-Up
BDF RM League Season 2 Champions
BDF RM League Season 2 Global Champion
BDF RM League Season 2 Top Scorer Ernest Mcmahan (15 goals)
Thanksgiving 2007 MVP Daryl Harry
Youth Team
Moon Magic FC is represented on the youth level by Magic Academy. Magic Academy was formed in H.S. 32 when youth clubs were finally legalized. Despite the lack of reputation that the senior club held at the time, Magic Academy was invited to join the international Bottom Division Federation youth league for its preliminary group round. The Academy represented their country well. They finished first in their group, 2nd most in points in the entire preliminary stages and boasted an impressive 63 goal differential, easily the best among all teams in the preliminary stages. Magic Academy will play its next season in League One, the top of the BDF youth pyramid.
BDF RM League
Season 1
Magic Academy did not get off to its best start during the inaugural year of the RM League. The boys won only one game during the first trip around the table, drawing four and losing two. After a shocking defeat to the league leading Mavericks, Magic Academy was hovering in the relegation zone.
Magic Academy would return to Boston the following week and returned the favor, pounding Mavericks 4-1. This was the start of a historic run of seven straight wins to close out the season. No team was safe from Magic Academy and some made claims that Magic Academy players were doping. The club kept climbing the table, week after week and soon parents saw that their boys were in a position to attain Youth League One glory.
With one week to play, Magic was a point out of first place, behind only those damn Mavericks. Magic Academy visited Ally's Accademicals and trounced them 2-5. It was a sight to see. Unfortunately the boys discovered despite their performance, Mavericks had won their last game 8-0 and the dream of a championship ended. It is well known that Mavericks paid off their final opponent, Mladi Udarniki, so that they could win. Mladi Udarniki would disappear from the league immediately after its final match.
Magic Academy finished the season in second place with 28 points, a +16 goal differential and the league's best defense which conceded a mere 19 goals. Curtis Henning was the team's top scorer with 10 goals. Henning also finished 3rd in the league in scoring.
Season 2
The second season of the RM League saw Magic Academy take their football more seriously. The club was now the only remaining American team left in the top league and the American public put a lot of pressure on the boys to win or face deportation. This meant no distractions and no girlfriends. This was disappointing news to keeper Abe Ferguson who had finally landed two girlfriends simultaneously and they both accepted that he was young and still considering his options. None the less, they were heartbroken and Abe saw a small dip in form.
The sacrifices would pay off and Magic Academy would win their first 6 games which had made it 13 straight since the end of last season. The last match being a 6-1 drubbing of the German youth club Mavericks, the Academy's biggest rival and reigning champions. At this point trainer Bud German felt the boys had been taking their football seriously and he allowed Abe to once again pursue his womanizing dreams. This would turn out to be a disaster. In their next game Magic Academy fell to Mini Mussen and Abe Ferguson let in 3 goals. He had given up only 4 goals in the first 6 games of the season! This result allowed Mavericks to assume first place on goal differential and trainer Bud German came under enormous fire for undermining the squad's discipline and also for his rumored sympathy for German youth clubs because of his last name.
In BDF RM League season 2 Magic boy superstar winger Daryl Harry won the rare Turkey Leg Award because of his MVP performance during Thanksgiving Day. Magic Academy defeated a vaunted SmartHotspur Boys club 5-2 and Daryl Harry was awarded a team best 6.5 stars for his performance. The Turkey Leg Award is a unique and coveted award. It is so unique that conditions have only been met once in Hattrick's 34 season history. Turkey Leg Awards are only given out to meaningful games played on Thanksgiving, an American holiday which occurs only on Thursdays. Due to the unique structure of the BDF RM League, which plays its games on Thursdays, Turkey Leg Awards became possible to win. It is believed that Magic Academy is the first club to win and publicize the award.
Results
| Season | Series | Position | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Notes |
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| PR | Group 7 | 1st | 37 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 72 | 9 | +63 | Finished 2nd overall |
| 1 | RM League | 2nd | 28 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 19 | +16 |
Curtis Henning led the team with 10 goals. |
| 2 | RM League | 1st | 36 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 13 | +42 |
Promising Youth Stars
Magic Academy demands excellence from its students, but these young players are consistently receiving 5 or more stars.
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Alumni
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