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In season 39, World Youth played in III.15 with a very restricted number of high skilled players. Salaries were down 100k in comparison to the promotion season in IV and two of the defensive stars of the team, wingback Stanisław Michalczuk (4.8mio) and central defender Thilo Wörsdörfer (5.9mio, club record) were sold for tons of money. Veteran winger Anders Magnusson also had to leave and Coach Benno Saddam was openly speaking of taking his well-earned pension. While fans were beginning to worry about the ability of the team to win matches, a good season start with 4 wins in 5 matches left the critics speechless. In an interview given to Sports Illustrated, ThomasPrice told the reporters he was "living day by day, just enjoying what has been done so far and not worrying too much about the future". The good first half of the season was fallowed by 3 bitter matches that were not won despite very close rating differences. The team decided to let it go and finished 4th, while breaking record in skilltrading profit (around 11mio net profit).
In season 39, World Youth played in III.15 with a very restricted number of high skilled players. Salaries were down 100k in comparison to the promotion season in IV and two of the defensive stars of the team, wingback Stanisław Michalczuk (4.8mio) and central defender Thilo Wörsdörfer (5.9mio, club record) were sold for tons of money. Veteran winger Anders Magnusson also had to leave and Coach Benno Saddam was openly speaking of taking his well-earned pension. While fans were beginning to worry about the ability of the team to win matches, a good season start with 4 wins in 5 matches left the critics speechless. In an interview given to Sports Illustrated, ThomasPrice told the reporters he was "living day by day, just enjoying what has been done so far and not worrying too much about the future". The good first half of the season was fallowed by 3 bitter matches that were not won despite very close rating differences. The team decided to let it go and finished 4th, while breaking record in skilltrading profit (around 11mio net profit).
In preparation for season 40, World Youth went on the market an aquired the superhighskilled 28 years old midfielder Danny Brodersen who currently is the highest leveled player who has ever played for the team. Journalists interpretated this move as a sign that the team was preparing to attack in season 40, but no comments were made by the team's management.
In preparation for season 40, World Youth went on the market an aquired the superhighskilled 28 years old midfielder Danny Brodersen who currently is the highest leveled player who has ever played for the team. Journalists interpretated this move as a sign that the team was preparing to attack in season 40, but no comments were made by the team's management.
=== '''Games of nerves''' ===
Two teams tried to compete with World Youth in season 40 to end as the III.15 champions, and they couldn't differ one from another more: While the FC Schlonzo relied on a heavy defense with an almost non-existent attack, Zebras Mannheim did quite the opposite, lining up record ratings in front. A disapointing home defeat in game 7 of the season against undefeated Schlonzos put World Youth to second place. But one week later, after a quite heavy short-term investment in 2 midfielders, Word Youth could came out of the away match with an important victory and put Schlonzos to second place behind them. The season seemed to roll out easily, until a huge upset loss in game 13 (later named by fans the "Fuchstal Robbing"). Direct promotion seemed lost, and the last match of the season, a home game against third placed Zebras, would decide which of the 3 teams would end on top.
[[image:Hatstatsrekord.png|right|frame|Germany Hatstats record in the last week of the season ]]


=== '''All season results''' ===
=== '''All season results''' ===

Revision as of 03:20, 15 December 2009

Germany World Youth (982446)
Official Club Logo
Managed by ThomasPrice
Club information
LocationSaarland,  Deutschland
ArenaYouth Stadion
Fan Club♪♪ Tigris Worldis ♪♪

World Youth was founded by ThomasPrice on July 25, 2006. After seven promotions (6 of them in a row), World Youth currently plays in league III.15 in Germany. The club is training defenders for 10 seasons with a mix of very short term low level training in friendlies and long term quality multiskillers for the league matches.


Titles

Winner of league III.15, season 40 Winner of league III.15 Season 40 Winner of league IV.1, season 38 Winner of league IV.1 Season 38
Winner of league V.229, season 35 Winner of league V.229 Season 35 Winner of league VI.1016, season 34 Winner of league VI.1016 Season 34
Winner of league VII.515, season 33 Winner of league VII.515 Season 33 Winner of league VIII.187, season 32 Winner of league VIII.187 Season 32
Winner of league IX.1026, season 31 Winner of league IX.1026 Season 31 Winner of league X.1865, season 30 Winner of league X.1865 Season 30

History

Birth and early success

The team's first league match vs FC.Weddinghofen, 29.07.2006

World Youth was founded out of post-tourdefrance boredom as well as a pre-exams search for excuses not to learn during the summer of 2006. The name was chosen as a reference to the Captain Tsubasa anime that was ThomasPrice's favorite tv-show in the 80's. Plans to implement role playing elements with this theme were made, but would never develop to anything concrete. The team was relegated to League X four days after the new owner took charge, which could have been felt as bad karma. However, the relegation coincided with the first league match of the club's history (which was the last match of the season) against the already secured league champion FC.Weddinghofen that was playing HT for already 6 monthes. It resulted in a brilliant World Youth victory, mainly due to quick, smart and cheap recruiting of old midfielders (Rainer Schlögel, Thomas Ramsch) the day before. During offseason, the defender skilltrading strategy that would be the cornerstone of future successes was prosperingly inaugurated. The tone was set !

The complete first season in X was played against bots, so that the front office could spend a lot of time on the transfer market and concentrate on training while fielding low cost players like goalkeeper Kay Gith, winger Lukas Hoffemann or striker Herbert Bleisteiner. This "Aldi" concept made the team join the Discount Team Federation where it accumulated valuable game knowledge.

Just promote, baby !

After the very easy season in X against bot teams, WY continued its journey through the deepness of Germany's league system with quite some facility. The club invested in four very promising young defenders that were to stay many seasons: Atilio Ramazotti, Ludwig Wezold, Pablo Dittborn and Bernt Carlblom. Midfielder Camillo Failla was bought in expectation of him becoming coach later in his career. The first transfers above 1mio € were made when german midfielder Fabian Friedrichsthal (magnificent PM) and swedish striker Bengt Adolfsson (magnificent scoring) joined for 1.5mio € each.

WY record: 13 defense skillups in one train

Defense training was generating more and more money, and the walk through IX and VIII was made without any difficulties and with large advances over the opponents. Friendlies became matches whose purpose was to generate as much money as possible. They were mostly played in the USA due to the late kick off time that made last minute purchases during wednesdays possible. As it was impossible to go flagchasing under those circumstances, a new project was started: Chasing as much regions of the USA as possible. To this date, WY has visited 32 different regions of the USA in friendlies, including Alaska and Puerto Rico.

Goalkeeper Richard Bohl came into the club and became a legend with his set pieces scoring skill. A standard for goalkeepers was set to which every future WY goalkeeper would have to measure himself. Bohl became rapidly the most loved player of the raising ultras among the WY fans, the Tigris Worldis. Bohl left the club by himself when he realized his set pieces skill were not enough to accompany the club to higher spheres.

The promotion to VII during the summer of 2007 (season 33) saw a whole bunch of new players join the club. Heavy deflation made buying players relatively cheap, and WY capitalized on it. Among others, midfielders Fred Hallbergmoos and Aki Gullström, Winger Anders Magnusson and offensive defender Thilo Wörsdörfer were bought for ridiculously low amounts. Tactic changes had to be made as the level of the opponents got higher: away games were played with 442 instead of the training optimized 541/532, but the root idea to win midfield without focusing too much on the attack ratings was maintained. World Youth clinched the promotion early and was heading to what seemed to maybe be the first stop: division VI.


The early Stampff era

Danny Stampff, a former German U-20 player aged 20, was bought from an Italian club for 4.5mio on November 22, 2007 and played his first match two days later in a 3-0 home victory over Wanne-Eickel in league VI. He changed the destiny of the club.

Danny Stampff in old design during his fifth season for WY

Danny's acquisition meant a 10 season commitment to defense training in order to make him one of the best central defender in HT and, who knows, a national team player. Together with wingback Stanisław Michalczuk from Poland and central defender Wörsdörfer, he would form one of the most multiskilled defenses in Germany's middle leagues. 20 days after the big spending on Danny, World Youth bought goalkeeper Nils Myhre to replace Bohl for even more money (4.8mio). Myhre was another perfect purchase that annihilated the complete savings, but the deflation period in HT was already ending and prices started rising, so that investing in players was an easy and logical decision.

With a world-class defense on the field WY had a perfect season and won all 14 matches in division VI. Defensive forward Iuliu Chirilã and striker Yiorgos Koumpilias were added to the team, they were much needed addition in a offense that was behind the rest of the team in terms of quality. Reaching division V in season 35, the decision was made to try to promote yet again directly in the first season. Two titanic playmakers, Josep M. Morales and Steen B. Jensen as well as a titanic striker Simon Waltershof were purchased. Formation switched completely to 442 (even in home games) and midfield dominance, helped by a playmaking heavy defense, stayed the recurrent tactical choice.

WY lost only one regular league game and had two draws before the last game of the season against average skilled SV Moosach 04 in which direct access to division IV could be gained with at least one point. With maximum team spirit (built up with a continuous PIC sequence) everything looked like an easy win, if ThomasPrice hadn't make a cataclysmal error in hiring 11 goalkeeper coaches by inadvertence during the last training update. He could barely escape a lynch mob. Team spirit dropped 7 levels and a new way to win the game had to be found. Two old and relatively monoskilled defenders were bought on short notice (aka "divine trick"), and the only serious counterattack tactic game in team's history was played, leading to a perfect 1-1 tie (free kick goal by Nils Myhre) and to the undreamed promotion to division IV.

Boring Boring WY

Season 36 and 37 in division IV were training focused seasons with no ambition to promote again and no ambition to go far in the cup. Stamina intensity was set to 5% in order to maximize skilltrading and "Danny-training". Two early losses, both times against d_o_o_F Federation buddy FC Rotor Neuköln, ruined any title hopes very early in the season. The only meaningful addition to the team occurred late in season 37 with the adding of extraterrestrial striker Paweł Majchrzak. WY finished 4th in season 36 and 3rd in season 37, avoiding the dangerous relegation matches. Skilltrading profits skyrocketed as each season was completed with over 10mio in net income. The local banker put on a big smile every time ThomasPrice walked in his office. The USA regionchasing came to an end in the friendlies when ThomasPrice had the brilliant idea to have his friend Stiboloki register a HT club whose only purpose was...NOT to lineup zero players during his friendlies against World Youth. The resulting walkovers prohibited injuries to the reserve players or to the star players during offseason. As to this date, no other club in Germany that used this simple but splendid system is known to the authors of this text, a fact once more showing the greatness of World Youth. Ignoble attempts by inferior managers to discredit the walkovers as cheating in the well known HTB-forum lead to nothing.[1]

Back on track

Lohberger scores the winning goal to promote WY to league III

Payday for the two slow groundwork seasons came in season 38 with WY high-flying the complete IV.1 league and demolishing early in the season any hopes the opponents may have had. Monoskilled set-pieces shooter IM Marvits and offensive Winger Ugo Timpanaro were bought to give the team much needed depth in the roster. For the first time, round 7 in the cup was reached, in order to gain team spirit through PIC in cup matches as long as possible. Instead of focusing on training, the first half of the season was completely overshadowed by the pursuit of results. Björn Lohberger, a German head specialist, was brought in to give the team even more midfield power in this long season. He entered club history by scoring the winning goal on a corner kick against the strongest opponent Isserstedt in the 10th match of the season, securing a strong first place in the league. World Youth would not stray from the path, trouncing the remaining teams that attempted to stand in their way. On matchday 12, an away win against VfB Muxall secured automatic promotion to III and the biggest celebration in central Europe football took place.

Carpe diem

In season 39, World Youth played in III.15 with a very restricted number of high skilled players. Salaries were down 100k in comparison to the promotion season in IV and two of the defensive stars of the team, wingback Stanisław Michalczuk (4.8mio) and central defender Thilo Wörsdörfer (5.9mio, club record) were sold for tons of money. Veteran winger Anders Magnusson also had to leave and Coach Benno Saddam was openly speaking of taking his well-earned pension. While fans were beginning to worry about the ability of the team to win matches, a good season start with 4 wins in 5 matches left the critics speechless. In an interview given to Sports Illustrated, ThomasPrice told the reporters he was "living day by day, just enjoying what has been done so far and not worrying too much about the future". The good first half of the season was fallowed by 3 bitter matches that were not won despite very close rating differences. The team decided to let it go and finished 4th, while breaking record in skilltrading profit (around 11mio net profit). In preparation for season 40, World Youth went on the market an aquired the superhighskilled 28 years old midfielder Danny Brodersen who currently is the highest leveled player who has ever played for the team. Journalists interpretated this move as a sign that the team was preparing to attack in season 40, but no comments were made by the team's management.

Games of nerves

Two teams tried to compete with World Youth in season 40 to end as the III.15 champions, and they couldn't differ one from another more: While the FC Schlonzo relied on a heavy defense with an almost non-existent attack, Zebras Mannheim did quite the opposite, lining up record ratings in front. A disapointing home defeat in game 7 of the season against undefeated Schlonzos put World Youth to second place. But one week later, after a quite heavy short-term investment in 2 midfielders, Word Youth could came out of the away match with an important victory and put Schlonzos to second place behind them. The season seemed to roll out easily, until a huge upset loss in game 13 (later named by fans the "Fuchstal Robbing"). Direct promotion seemed lost, and the last match of the season, a home game against third placed Zebras, would decide which of the 3 teams would end on top.

Germany Hatstats record in the last week of the season

All season results

Season Place League Cup Result
Season 40 1sth III.15 Round 7
Season 39 4th III.15 Round 7
Season 38 1st IV.1 Round 7
Season 37 3rd IV.1 Round 4
Season 36 4th IV.1 Round 4
Season 35 1st V.229 Round 6
Season 34 1st VI.1016 Round 4
Season 33 1st VII.515 Round 2
Season 32 1st VIII.187 No Participation
Season 31 1st IX.1026 No Participation
Season 30 1st X.1865 No Participation

Players of note

Current Stars

Danny Stampff Danny Stampff (26y), Defender, official matches played: 85
Stampff is a former german U20 midfielder who played 6 games for Germany during the U-20 World Cup X campaign of U20 national coach Nirk as well as one friendly against Bangladesh with NT national coach Carlos_Tevez . He was bought by WY in season 34 for the moderate sum of € 4.5mio and is seen by experts as one of the most talented playmaking defender in HT. He is by far the most famous player in team history, even if his red hair color is subject to a lot of taunting.

Former Legends

Richard Bohl Richard Bohl, Goalkeeper, official matches played: 38
While only lasting 2.5 seasons, Richard Bohl left a lasting impression in the club. His skill as a Set pieces killer was fantastic, but what made him famous was his ability to score important game-winning goals. French supporters nicknamed him "Coup de Bohl", a french wordplay for "lucky play". He is currently playing in league II in Kazakhstan, aged 32.
Anders Magnusson Anders Magnusson, Winger, official matches played: 79
Once the most expensive player aquisition in team history, Anders Magnusson played 6 seasons for WY and was sold after the promotion to III. At that time, his heavy playmaking talent fitted just right in the 442 tactic scheme where he hold a key role and was almost everytime oriented "towards middle". He is currently playing in a top20 of India, aged 29.
Thilo Wörsdörfer Thilo Wörsdörfer, Defender, official matches played: 72
While Danny Stampff drew most of the media attention in past seasons, Thilo Wörsdörfer was his partner in central defense for more than 5 seasons and similarly effective. His high playmaking skill made the WY defense dominant in ball possession, and his relatively low price when bought and high price when sold made him the best deal ever signed. Thilo is also the german champion in paper planes building.
Nils Myhre Nils Myhre (28y), Goalkeeper, official matches played: 79
Myhre has been the most expensive player in WY history (€ 4.8mio), but is one of the most effective too. He lead the team as captain in 65 games, scored 19 goals (when Set pieces were still allowed) and has 2 perfect seasons in a row in saving penalties or freekicks. He has clean sheets (no goals scored against him) in 33% of his games. Nils is also the lead guitarist in a dark gothic rock band.
Fred Hallbergmoos Fred Hallbergmoos (28y), Midfielder, official matches played: 94
Fred joined WY aged 21 in 07.2007 when the club was still playing in league VII, which makes him the most ancient player in the team. He will be the first player to have played in 100 official games. The main reason for his durability is his tremendous header capability combined with reasonable wage claims. Fred is the only player to take public transportation to get to training.

Stadion

Youth Stadion
  • Name: Youth Stadion
  • Last improvement: 11.07.2009
  • Total capacity: 62.500
    • Terraces: 35.581
    • Basic seating: 13.625
    • Seats under roof: 11.856
    • Seats in VIP boxes: 1.438
  • Official pregame song: Monty Python - I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts

Jersey

Home Jersey,
Beck's sponsor
Away Jersey,
Thomas Price tribute


Supporters

World Youth is supported by the following persons and teams:

Photo Gallery

World Youth in old design
Money/TSI statistics
Match preparation with Excel
Top10 most matches played 27.06.2009
Old team photo, start of division VIII season
Old team photo, start of division VIII season
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