GCOS 3 // Kebec & Second Brazilian Empire

by **Averyickan City** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:34 pm

ACTV: MUSIC TIME

Instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNGPWVwQWA

"We Will Win The Global Cup Thanks To Our Great Leader!"

Run, run, run, who are these men?
They can run like the wind!
And they keep scoring several goals,
These are men of the dream team!

King Avery the 1st glanced at this team
When they prayed, and they asked, they got his power!
You can do it! You can win it all!
Now go and bring the Cup home!

You can do it because we believe in you!

Run, run, run, who are these men?
They can run like the wind!
They all follow the King's path,
All the way to victory!

United around King Avery the 1st!
They'll have strength, they'll have luck, they can do it all!
You can do it! You can win it all!
Now go and bring the Cup home!

[music plays]

Run, run, run, who are these men?
They can run like the wind!
They practice every day at dawn,
Even though they know they'll win!

When King Avery the 1st gave them his support,
They all bowed and thanked him, then went right to work!
You can do it! You can win it all!
Now go and bring the Cup home!

King Avery the 1st is our guardian!
With his vision and will, we now own the world!
You can do it! You can win it all!
Now go and bring the Cup home!

(This song was made prior to Averyickan City's loss in the Round of 16)

by **Kep** » Tue Jul 18, 2017 3:53 pm

Round of 16

Leg 3: Bape-Supreme 1-2 2nd Brazilian Empire
@Bifrost Dome, Kebec

Leg 4: Fhulghamous Peninsula 2–2 (2-2 AET) (2-3 pen.) Rhineland Sued
@Eckerbridge Fjords Park, Kebec

Leg 5: Togonistan 2-0 Lusophone Africa
@Mount Laurel, Kebec

Leg 6: Hrvatska i Prekodunavlje 2-1 Lanzo
@Stade National de Sario, Kebec

Quarter-finals:
Leg 3: 2nd Brazilian Empire vs. Hrvatska i Prekodunavlje
@Asgardia, Kebec

Rhineland Sued vs. Togonistan
@Calix City Stadiam, Kebec

by **Rhineland Sued** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:34 am

The news shocked the nation:

Final Penalty Kick, score 2-2 on Penalties, Quarson shoots,...

AND RHINELAND SUED WILL ADVANCE TO THE QUARTER FINALS!!!

Elliot Edison (FUP) (21')
Landon Benson (RHS) (45')
Potter Agarmainson (RHS) (51')
Landon Benson (RHS) (62')
Max Fetfatzidis (FUP) [PEN] (90' +1)

Penalties:
FUP: Adrian Power, Jr. (Kick 2), Capoeirista (Kick 5)
RHS: Potter Agarmainson (Kick 3), Jake Leanardson (Kick 4), Gary Quarson (Kick 5)

"Elliot Edison receives a through pass from Kamakura. He gears up for the shot... Hollandson saves, but then Edison comes back to an upper 90! What an amazing opener in this match between two close teams." - 21'

"Benson, back to Mason, Mason shoots... what a save by Cap- OOH! Benson can do another upper 90, this time scoring!!!" -45'

"Benson again, he shoots, and what a save by Capoeirista. He just places it in the bottom left, completely fooling Hainut, but Cap can save it." -50'

"Corner. This time, it's Agarmainson taking it. Now it's the swerve into the back post... GOAL from the corner by Potter Agarmainson of the minor team Geneva Warriors!!!" -51'

"Benson... Sebastiano with an interception! And all of a sudden, both on the ground from a challenge by Benson. Head Referee Davis Hrdecky (Pridnestrovia) gives Benson the yellow." -62'

"Foul in the box by Benson, no card follows by Hrdecky. Fetfatzidis takes it... looks as if he's going to the le- and he goes for the right-hand corner, what a fool!"

Pen shootout lineups:

Fhulghamous Peninsula:
Pau Palomer
Adrian Power, Jr.
Lucian von Frankreich
Sebastiano Pelucci
Capoeirista

Rhineland Sued:
Landon Benson
Lane Aineson
Potter Agarmainson
Jake Leanardson
Gary Quarson

"Pau Palomer goes up to shoot, but what an easy save by Hollandson. Straight to him"
"Landon Benson shoots, and up and into the 40th row!!!"
"Adrian Power may have power on this one (chuckles), and he shoots, hits the top bar, and what an opener!!!"
"Aineson shoots, hits the post, and goes far wide."
"von Frankreich is at the ball. He stutters to the ball, and says a Colonist curse word. The player is ejected from the next match, but not this one."
"Agarmainson shoots, what a power into Capoeirista!!! Blows the air out of him!!!"
"Sebastiano shoots, near miss to the post... sad!"
"Leanardson is up next... the cannon of his foot fires... AND ANOTHER GOAL!!! THE ONE THAT PUTS THEM IN FRONT!!!"
"Oh no. The goalie is up, if he misses, it's over. Shot on target, fumble by Ahen, AND ANOTHER GOAL! EQUALIZER!!"
"Final Penalty Kick, score 2-2 on Penalties, Quarson shoots,... upper 90 on this on- AND RHINELAND SUED WILL ADVANCE TO THE QUARTER FINALS!!!"

by **Trans-Dniesters** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:19 am

ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКАЯ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ НОВОСТИ АГЕНЦИЯ
PRIDNESTROVSKAYA TSENTRALNAYA NOVOSTI AGENTSIYA
PRIDNESTROVIAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

PRIDNESTROVIA ADVANCES TO ROUND OF 16 OF THE 3RD GLOBAL CUP OF SOCCER WITH DOMINANT VICTORY OVER NEW JARWEL
By Gustav Tyumenov

Mikhail Nesterenko of the Pridnestrovian national football team makes a defensive tackle against New Jarwel in the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer.

SAO PAULO, SECOND BRAZILIAN EMPIRE - The Pridnestrovian national football team advanced to the knockout stage of the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer on a comfortable footing as the Red Army ran out 4-0 winners over debutants New Jarwel. Two goals each in both halves ensured that Werner Ceausescu and the Red Army were already cruising into the round of 16 even before the final whistle had been blown, and it could even be said that New Jarwel rolled over for the Red Army to pave the way for this comprehensive and crushing victory.

As had been his habit for the past few days of the tournament, Wilfried Halberstam proved to be a key player in all aspects of the Pridnestrovians' play, providing two assists and contributing a goal of his own, actually the first goal of the game, courtesy of his ever-reliable play as "Der Raumdeuter", sneaking into pockets of space in between the opponents' lines and crafting his own tricky and hard-to-track movements on and off the ball to keep the defense confused and wondering where he was going to go next. It was because of this that Halberstam's opening goal may have felt a bit anti-climactic when the CSKA Tiraspol forward elected to simply smash it directly into the net with some power and venom.

Boyan Radev then doubled Pridnestrovia's advantage when he and Halberstam once again turned on the style and cleverness with their patented one-two passing plays and Halberstam showed excellent vision as well as his ability to sneak into space when he found Radev inside a crowded box and the Marinos Thimpodopoulos forward made no mistake from seven yards away and smashed the ball into the roof of the net. And the Radev-Halberstam partnership could very well have been the reason that Pridnestrovia could have gone into half-time already four-nil up but after conceding two goals in the span of six minutes, the New Jarwel defense intensified their marking of both Halberstam and Radev to stifle their creativity, but that didn't stop both of them from registering two more attempts on goal before the first 45 minutes had elapsed. Only the woodwork had prevented both of them from getting first-half braces in this game.

In the second half, New Jarwel kept up their defensive tactic of marking, defending and suffocating Wilfried Halberstam and Boyan Radev, and while the tactic may have worked in stifling both forwards' attempts at goal, this allowed the rest of the team to put the New Jarwel goal under siege until midfielder Mikhail Nesterenko benefited from another pass from Halberstam on the counterattack and the Dinamo Bender player gratefully received the cross from the man from CSKA to add to Pridnestrovia's growing tally of goals.

The substitutes, not wanting to be left out of the action, got involved with the goal action almost immediately after they were subbed on and it was a substitute, Valentin Funar, who would pave the way for Pridnestrovia's fourth goal. Funar, who has a reputation for cutting inside before loosing off a shot or passing to an open teammate, was doing very much the same thing when a New Jarwel defender stuck out his leg and tripped up Funar. The referee had initially called for a free kick but after the assistant suggested a look at the video referee, the main referee awarded a penalty to Pridnestrovia as the video replay revealed that both Funar and the New Jarwel defender were actually just inside the box when the tripping incident occurred. Another substitute, Klaus Khvashchynski, took the honor of taking the spot kick and the Union Rheinburg striker made no mistake from six yards away, smashing the ball into the top left corner to complete the Pridnestrovian rout of New Jarwel.

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: It was a comfortable win in the end

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: "This campaign got off to a rocky start, what with the draw against Vangaziland and the own goal in the same game. Own goals also proved to be a bit of a problem for us in this tournament as even though we're playing quality teams in this competition, our defense against them was just so good that we probably had to score a few own goals to reflect the other teams' performance. But what matters in the end is that we won and that we're through to the knockout stages. It was a comfortable win against New Jarwel in the end but we must focus once again as we will definitely face tougher teams in the knockouts. It will be a very tough slog through the rest of the tournament and a single mistake will be more than enough to knock us out of contention."

NEW JARWEL 0 - 4 PRIDNESTROVIA
                 HALBERSTAM (15')
                 RADEV (21')
                 NESTERENKO (68')
                 KHVASHCHYNSKI (84' pen)

PRIDNESTROVIA
GK: 13 Abbing
RB: 14 Tymoshenko █ (Kardashenko - 57' █)
CB: 3 Vasilyev
LB: 17 Vadimenko
RM: 20 Polzin (Funar - 63')
RCM: 26 Nesterenko
LCM: 8 Bogomolov
LM: 6 Pajari
RS: 9 Radev (Khvashchynski - 80')
CAM: 23 Halberstam
LS: 7 Schermer

MATCH STATS
Possession
New Jarwel: 43%
Pridnestrovia: 57%
Shots
New Jarwel: 5 (2 on target)
Pridnestrovia: 12 (7 on target)
Corners
New Jarwel: 2
Pridnestrovia: 7
Fouls
New Jarwel: 12
Pridnestrovia: 17

ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКАЯ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ НОВОСТИ АГЕНЦИЯ
PRIDNESTROVSKAYA TSENTRALNAYA NOVOSTI AGENTSIYA
PRIDNESTROVIAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

PRIDNESTROVIA SWEEPS ASIDE AVERYICKAN CITY IN TIGHT ROUND OF 16 ENCOUNTER IN 3RD GLOBAL CUP OF SOCCER
By Gustav Tyumenov

Peter Schermer and Vladislav Bogomolov of the Pridnestrovian national football team celebrate Schermer's second goal in Pridnestrovia's Round of 16 matchup against Averyickan City in the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer. Pridnestrovia triumphed over the Averyickanians to advance to the quarterfinals of the Global Cup of Soccer.

PORTO ALEGRE, SECOND BRAZILIAN EMPIRE - The Pridnestrovian national football team triumphed over Averyickan City in extra time after a tense contest in regular time was eventually settled by two Red Army stalwarts deep in extra time in the form of Mikhail Nesterenko and Valentin Funar. Avery Namalucky and Richard Peters almost looked to have orchestrated a massive upset against the favorites when they led the Pridnestrovians for the last thirty minutes of the game only for Peter Schermer to rescue the tie for the Red Army and provide the chance to win it in extra time.

Avery Namalucky had made a case for the proof of nominative determinism when the Averyickan forward managed to get through a gap in the Pridnestrovian defense, and while his first touch with the ball from Richard Peters failed him, the ball bounced off of his shin and onto his head before heading straight for the net and past Ferdinand Abbing, and the Red Army suddenly found themselves down a goal within the opening five minutes.

Peter Schermer did address that particular issue twenty minutes later when the Sporting Ceneisis striker latched onto a long ball from Vladislav Bogomolov and ran straight through the Averyickan City defense before slotting home to equalize for the Red Army. The rest of the first half passed by without any more goals but Vladislav Bogomolov proved himself to be a lucky fellow when he managed to get on the right end of a parried shot from Schermer and the Sheriff Tiraspol midfielder poked the ball past Avery Mombamosada to give Pridnestrovia a one-goal lead.

Richard Peters then somehow managed to equalize for the Averyickans and then there was nothing lucky about Avery Namalucky's second goal; this was a straightforward attempt from ten yards away that was just that little bit too far away from Ferdinand Abbing's reach. Averyickan City then turned defensive and tried to hold out for the 3-2 victory but Pridnestrovia kept hammering at the gates before Peter Schermer found the telling gap through the defense and put the Red Army back on level terms and force extra time with only one minute left in regulation.

Valentin Funar's introduction in extra time proved to be the catalyst that Pridnestrovia needed to carry themselves through to the quarterfinals, first assisting Mikhail Nesterenko before he himself made use of his trademark cut-inside style to ensure the Pridnestrovians emerged 5-3 victors over Averyickan City in extra time.

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: An intense match through and through

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: "It's an intense match through and through. This is why I keep saying that we can't afford a single slip up in this competition. The quality of the teams that make it through is such that they will definitely take advantage of any mistakes and do what they can to win. We must do the same if we are to achieve victory in the Global Cup of Soccer."

      PRIDNESTROVIA 5 - 3 AVERYICKAN CITY
SCHERMER (25', 89')       NAMALUCKY (5', 67')
    BOGOMOLOV (49')       PETERS (55')
  NESTERENKO (107')
       FUNAR (115')

AVERYICKAN CITY
GK: 15 Mombamosada
RB: 6 Darienus
RCB: 4 Kink (Nthal - 60')
LCB: 8 Leonus
LB: 23 Telford (Burat - 75')
RM: 13 Tesla
RCM: 10 Lanoba
LCM: 3 Schmankis (Sicsnoube - 82')
LM: 30 McShulz (Taguganalia - 95')
RS: 7 Namalucky █
LS: 11 Peters

PRIDNESTROVIA
GK: 13 Abbing
RB: 14 Tymoshenko
CB: 3 Vasilyev (Nochevski - 65')
LB: 17 Vadimenko █
RM: 20 Polzin
RCM: 26 Nesterenko
LCM: 8 Bogomolov █
LM: 6 Pajari (Larionov - 79')
RS: 9 Radev (Khvashchynski - 85')
CAM: 23 Halberstam (Funar - 100')
LS: 7 Schermer

MATCH STATS
Possession
Pridnestrovia: 52%
Averyickan City: 48%
Shots
Pridnestrovia: 14 (6 on target)
Averyickan City: 8 (4 on target)
Corners
Pridnestrovia: 5
Averyickan City: 4
Fouls
Pridnestrovia: 20
Averyickan City: 18

by **2nd Brazilian Empire** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:40 pm

Quarter-finals

Leg 1: Free Republics 2-2 Kebec (3-2 AET)
@Olímpico Mineiro, Belo Horizonte

Leg 2: Pridnestrovia 7-2 Exitsignia
@Marombi, São Paulo

Semi-finals:
Leg 1: Free Republics vs. Togonistan/Rhineland Sued
@O Equatoriano, Rio de Janeiro

by **Togonistan** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 1:52 pm

Togonistan 2-0 Lusophone Africa

Line-up for the match, goals, cards etc:

Don: ''And we've come with our cameras to Mount Laurel, where Togonistani football team has just beat Lusophone Africa 2-0 and made their way to quarter-finals. Here with me is Luca Faleta, captain of our glorious football team. So, Luca, tell me, any thoughts after today's match?''

Luca: ''What can I say, I'm proud of our result. I feel the chemistry of the team is really good and we just kind of managed to hold our own.''

Don: ''It was definetly a tough match, Makula shot two goals, but your defense line had a lot of work to do in order to keep that 0 on the scoreboard.''

Luca: ''Yeah, that's true. It went quite tough, but we managed to play cleanly despite everything and I am proud of that. Last thing we needed was more yellow cards.''

Don: ''So, next match, against Rhineland Sued. With what kind of feelings do you go to face them?''

Luca: ''Rhineland Sued has shown they can play. Definitely. But I believe we have a fair chance against them.''

Don: ''Okay, we wish you all good luck!''

Luca: ''Thank you!''

by **Kep** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 3:34 pm

Quarterfinals

Leg 3: 2nd Brazilian Empire 1-0 Hrvatska i Prekodunavlje
@Asgardia, Kebec

Leg 4: Rhineland Sued 2-2 (2–2 AET) (4-2 pen.) Togonistan
@Calix City Stadiam, Kebec

Semi-finals:
Leg 1: Free Republics vs. Rhineland Sued
@O Equatoriano, Rio de Janeiro

Leg 2: Pridnestrovia vs. 2nd Brazilian Empire
@Stade National de Sario

by **Rhineland Sued** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:28 am

The news shocked the nation, again...:

If he makes this, it's all over...

AND RHINELAND SUED WILL ADVANCE TO THE SEMI-FINALS!!!

??? (TOG) (21')
Lane Aineson (RHS) (21')
Potter Agarmainson (RHS) (90')
??? [PEN] (90' +1)

Penalties:
TOG: ??? (Kick 1), ??? (Kick 4)
RHS: Landon Benson (Kick 1), Lane Aineson (Kick 2), Jake Leanardson (Kick 4), Gary Quarson (Kick 5)

"And he gears up for a shot, fakes him out, AND GOAL!!!" - 21'

"Leanardson with the corner... into Aineso- GOAAL!!! What an equalizer so early into the game!!!" -21'

"And here h- BAM straight into the upper left for Agarmainson" -90'

"Here he has it... and no booking from Sebastian Minnows... He shoots... HE SCORES!!! WE are going into extra time!!!" -90' +1

Pen shootout lineups:

Togonistan:
???
???
???
???
???
Rhineland Sued:
Landon Benson
Lane Aineson
Potter Agarmainson
Jake Leanardson
Gary Quarson

"Landon Benson shoots, Goal!"
"He shoots... and what a goal there it was."
"Aineson shoots, hits the post, and ... GOES IN!!!."
"Simple really, but he... MISSES!!!"
"Agarmainson shoots, and he tips the bar. but the keeper can save it."
"And... BOOM into the 40th row... again."
"Leanardson is up next... the cannon of his foot fires... AND ANOTHER GOAL!!! THE ONE THAT PUTS THEM IN FRONT!!!"
"What a shot... and what a deserving goal."
"If he makes this, it's all over... AND RHINELAND SUED WILL ADVANCE TO THE SEMI-FINALS!!!"

by **Trans-Dniesters** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:06 am

Sand as Red as Blood, Part Eight

Unnamed island, Red Sand Islands
Somewhere off the coast of Atlantian Oceania

Senior Lieutenant Viktoriya Lvovna Sergeyeva shifted the AK-74 rifle in her hands and then silently cursed the Pridnestrovian Navy for taking her away from her comfortable posting in the naval base in Antakya and putting her in a submarine, the Novorossiysk Machine Building Enterprise for building an entire class of nuclear missile submarines right in the middle of the Great Patriotic War, the Gatutin Machine Building Enterprise for relying upon decades-old designs to continually create new missiles for Pridnestrovia, the Gatutin Ga-36 submarine-launched ballistic missile for being such an outdated design fit for service only seventy years ago, the nuclear missile submarine K-312 for being an old submarine that hadn't been inspected as many times as it should have been, Captain First Tanya Nikitovna Kalinina of the K-312 for ordering the members of the crew who had once been Naval Infantry to recruit some of the other officers and crew to assist them in their patrols, the Emirate of the Red Sand for claiming the entirety of the Red Sand Islands and being the reason why she was on patrol with a rifle in the first place, and the Sultanate of Oontaz for not enforcing their claim over the Red Sand Islands more stringently. The very reason why Sergeyeva had elected to serve in the Navy instead of the other armed forces services was that she didn't want anything to do with rifles and firearms any more than was necessary. Firearms had been unavoidable during basic training because, well, that was why there was such a thing as basic training, on the unlikely chance that the sailors of the Pridnestrovian Navy would have to serve alongside their Army counterparts on the ground like what happened during the Great Patriotic War, but based on the current state of world and national affairs at the moment, Viktoriya Sergeyeva saw little if any chance of her being forced to hold a Kalashnikov in her hands. At least until now. There were a number of sailors in the K-312 who came from the Naval Infantry before they had been recruited to the Navy's women-in-submarines program but apparently not enough of them had been recruited as the two highest ranking Naval Infantry girls on the boat, Captain Slavina and Junior Lieutenant Gelbalonskaya, had called upon her and some of the other crewmembers to augment what they were now calling the "patrol force". Captain Kalinina believed that it was only a matter of time before the Emirate of the Red Sand found out about the crew of the K-312 awaiting rescue on one of the islands that they claimed and came knocking to kick them out or quite possibly hold them all for ransom in exchange for the recognition of their self-declared micro-state.

Viktoriya Sergeyeva took a deep breath and let out a long sigh. The geopolitical issues of nation-states and unrecognized microstates were not supposed to be her concern. She was a sailor, for God's sake! If she had intended to fight for her country with her own body and soul then she would have enlisted with the Army or the Naval Infantry.

"Why the long face, Viktoriya?" Sergeyeva turned around to see her patrol "buddy," Senior Lieutenant Anna Sergeyevna Perlemayer, walking towards her with her own Kalash cradled in her arms. "You look like you're thinking about something deep over there," Perlemayer continued as she drew level with Sergeyeva.

"Please," Sergeyeva snorted. "If I was thinking about something deep then I would have been reassigned to Tiraspol State a long time ago. No, what I was actually thinking about is the fact that an honest and God-fearing sailor like me has been forced to become a sailor."

"Don't you like it?" Perlemayer asked, genuinely curious. "It makes for a nice break from seeing metal everywhere you go, even in your sleep, and feeling like you're in a steel coffin everytime."

"Actually, I would rather prefer being in the submarine rather than out here in the jungle with a Kalash. I mean, look at us! Look at our uniforms!" Sergeyeva gestured at her dark blue overalls. "They don't have more pockets than necessary. That means they're not designed for use by soldiers. Look where I've been told to put the spare magazines for my rifle!" She unziped the chest part of her overalls to reveal three Kalashnikov magazines tucked in between the overalls and her white-with-dark-blue-stripes telnyashka (the standard issue undershirt for the Pridnestrovian Navy and Naval Infantry). "It's uncomfortable, that's what it is! Face it, Anna, I'm never going to be a great soldier, not even a good one or an average one."

"Oh, don't put yourself down, Viktoriya," Perlemayer said soothingly. "You never know. Sometimes it's the reluctant soldiers who actually become the best heroes of their countries."

"Still, I'd prefer to be a living coward than a dead hero."

Perlemayer laughed. "All right, coward," she said with some affection, "have you cleared your sector here?"

"Da, I have," Sergeyeva replied. "Why do you think I've finally found the time to introspect?"

"Well, I'm done with my sector too so I guess it's probably time that we moved on to our next patrol sector," Perlemayer said. "Now that I think about it, you probably have a point about us not being meant to be soldiers. I mean, I'm sure that Slavina and Gelbalonskaya and the rest of the Naval Infantry girls know how long to patrol their section and then move on to the next and we probably should have listened to them when they were discussing it instead of moaning about how we're not cut out for this govno."

"So," Perlemayer asked Sergeyeva as they moved through the brush, "what are your plans after this?"

"What? What are you talking about?" Sergeyeva asked back.

"What do you plan to do after you've finally finished your Navy service?" Perlemayer clarified.

"I'm not sure, really," Sergeyeva admitted. "The only reason why I went to the Navy is because military service has become mandatory even for us females. If I didn't have to serve four years mandatory then I probably would have gone straight to PTsNA." PTsNA, or the Pridnestrovian Central News Agency was both the main and most popular news outlet in the Pridnestrovian Republic, carrying the backing of the Pridnestrovian government since the days when it used to also be the government's main propaganda arm.

"Oh, so do you like journalism?"

"Not journalism per se, Anna Sergeyevna," Viktoriya said. "I'd say that writing is what I really like to do. Journalism is going to add some experience for me in writing. What I would really like to do is write a crime novel and maybe become the Pridnestrovian Arthur Conan Doyle or Boris Akunin. But I have to serve the mandatory four years first. Or at least I was supposed to serve only four years mandatory before the war broke out and all of us who are only in it for the mandatory service had to serve for the duration of the war plus six months."

"What war? Oh, yes, that war. Da, Viktoriya Lvovna, that war really messed up all the timetables of everyone who was serving, didn't it?" Perlemayer shook her head. "Me, the only reason why I'm still here instead of back in Kesselburg is because I'm still trying to enjoy the world before I go back to claim my part in the family business."

"Your family has a business, Anna?" Sergeyeva asked.

"Da, and we're actually very much old money compared to the rest of the oligarchs who only popped up after 2004," Perlemayer said. "My family has a history of moneylending since the Middle Ages, they say, but after capitalism was allowed again in '04, the family invested in some of the mining operations around Bratsk and we built up our fortune a little more."

"So, Anna Sergeyevna, what you're saying to me is that you're actually the daughter of an oligarch?" Sergeyeva asked incredulously.

"I've never thought of it that way because the family doesn't consider ourselves oligarchs, but, yes, I guess you could say that and consider it as true," Perlemayer nodded.

"This is unbelievable, completely unbelievable," Sergeyeva said, shaking her head, but there was also a hint of a smile on her face. "If you're so rich, why are you still in the Navy until now? Why not just make a little quote-unquote 'donation' to the Armed Forces to get your name off of the rolls?"

"Ah, but I wanted to serve my country legitimately," Perlemayer said. "The family doesn't get it, though. Probably why they call me the black sheep."

Sergeyeva was about to say something about Perlemayer when gunshots suddenly rang out from somewhere in the thin jungle. "Where did that come from?" Perlemayer asked as she quickly leveled her Kalashnikov to her shoulder.

"I think it's coming over to the northwest," Sergeyeva said, readying her rifle as well. "Chyort, isn't that the twins' area?"

"Da," Perlemayer affirmed. And then as even more gunshots rang out through the forest, she said, "Govno! The Emirate of the Red Sand is here! It has to be them! Valentina and Anastasia need our help!"

"Anna, wait!" Viktoriya cried out. "We're just like Anastasia and Valentina; we just got recruited by the Naval Infantry into the patrol! We should call on the real Naval Infantry girls to deal with this!"

"There's no time, Viktoriya!" Perlemayer shouted as she moved forward towards the gunshots with her rifle ready on her shoulder. "Now cover me and keep an eye out for more Emiratis!"

"Oh, I have a bad feeling about this," Sergeyeva muttered even as she followed Perlemayer deeper into the forest and towards the firefight.

ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКАЯ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ НОВОСТИ АГЕНЦИЯ
PRIDNESTROVSKAYA TSENTRALNAYA NOVOSTI AGENTSIYA
PRIDNESTROVIAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

PRIDNESTROVIA ABSOLUTELY DOMINATES AND DESTROYS EXITSIGNIA TO BOOK TICKET TO SEMIFINALS OF 3RD GLOBAL CUP OF SOCCER
By Gustav Tyumenov

Peter Schermer of the Pridnestrovian national football team lets out an ecstatic celebration as his hat trick capped off a massive victory against Exitsignia in the quarterfinals of the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer.

SAO PAULO, SECOND BRAZILIAN EMPIRE - The Pridnestrovian national football team absolutely destroyed Exitsignia in a dominant performance in the quarterfinals of the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer as the Red Army ran out 7-2 winners over their opponents, which are actual living and breathing emergency paraphernalia such as exit signs, emergency exit signs, fire alarms, and the like. This provides a very welcome contrast to the tight victory that they scraped against Averyickan City, which was tight for ninety minutes before Valentin Funar opened up the game for the Pridnestrovians.

This time it was Peter Schermer who was the hero of the Pridnestrovian Republic as he scored a hat trick and provided assists twice to his teammates, but the ever-dependable "Der Raumdeuter" Wilfried Halberstam was a close second as it was his confusing play which opened up all sorts of spaces in which his teammates got into and struck from all sorts of angles to put the hapless Exitsignians to the sword.

Schermer opened the scoring with only three minutes played before Boyan Radev doubled the Red Army's lead just two minutes later, and then Mark Polzin appeared to have put the game to rest at only 15 minutes with his clever flick over the Exitsignia keeper. The goals had a little bit of rest before Vladislav Bogomolov found the net once again when Wilfried Halberstam cut the ball back to him, Der Raumdeuter somehow finding his teammate through a crowd of walking and defending exit signs. Bogomolov made no mistake from six yards away even as his shot pretty much hugged the inside of the goalpost before it clanged into the back of the net.

Peter Schermer then made no mistake from outside the box after a solo run orchestrated by Mikhail Nesterenko's long ball to put the game well beyond Exitsignia's reach as even Pridnestrovia couldn't possibly blow a five-goal lead. Pridnestrovia let up on the pressure at the start of the second half but Nesterenko's goal, the sixth for the Red Army in this game, seemed to have opened up the floodgates of goals once again, but this time two of the Pridnestrovians struck into the wrong net.

Aleksey Vasilyev side-footed past his own teammate Ferdinand Abbing while defending an Exitsignia corner before Peter Schermer completed his hat trick with a powerful shot sent straight to the net with power and venom, but Schermer wouldn't be the last Pridnestrovian player to find the back of the net. Branislav Nochevski's head forced the ball into the net as the Exitsignians mounted a rare counterattack near the end of the ninety minutes.

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: The massive victory was a welcome surprise

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: "This massive victory came as a complete surprise to me but nevertheless it is a welcome surprise. Not everyday do you see a team score seven goals, especially in the knockout stage of every tournament. Pridnestrovia and Exitsignia are now in the record books because of this game but I feel that Exitsignia will wish that this was not so. Nevertheless, I praise the boys for their commitment to victory and while some would say seven goals in unsporting, when the goals come, the goals come. I'm happy for my players because they let the goals come anyway."

          PRIDNESTROVIA 7 - 2 EXITSIGNIA
SCHERMER (3', 39', 77')       VASILYEV (66' og)
             RADEV (5')       NOCHEVSKI (89' og)
           POLZIN (15')
        BOGOMOLOV (36')
       NESTERENKO (57')

PRIDNESTROVIA
GK: 13 Abbing
RB: 14 Tymoshenko (Kardashenko - 77')
CB: 3 Vasilyev
LB: 17 Vadimenko █ (Nochevski - 73')
RM: 20 Polzin
RCM: 26 Nesterenko
LCM: 8 Bogomolov █
LM: 6 Pajari (Larionov - 60')
RS: 9 Radev
CAM: 23 Halberstam
LS: 7 Schermer

MATCH STATS
Possession
Pridnestrovia: 59%
Exitsignia: 41%
Shots
Pridnestrovia: 15 (10 on target)
Exitsignia: 5 (1 on target)
Corners
Pridnestrovia: 10
Exitsignia: 4
Fouls
Pridnestrovia: 13
Exitsignia: 15

by **2nd Brazilian Empire** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 1:35 pm

Semi-finals

Leg 1: Free Republics 3–4 Rhineland Sued
@O Equatoriano, Rio de Janeiro

Grand Finale:
Rhineland Sued vs. Pridnestrovia/2nd Brazilian Empire
@Estádio do Horizonte, Brazília

3rd place playoff:
Free Republics vs. Pridnestrovia/2nd Brazilian Empire
@Stade National de Sario

by **Kep** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 3:26 pm

Semifinals

Leg 2: Pridnestrovia 1–1 2nd Brazilian Empire (1–1 AET) (5–4 pen.)
@Stade National de Sario

Final:
Rhineland Sued vs. Pridnestrovia
@Estádio do Horizonte, Brazilia

3rd place playoff
Free Republics vs. 2nd Brazilian Empire
@Stade National de Sario

by **Rhineland Sued** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:59 pm

Aineson, now Agarmainson... back to Aine- AND THE GOAL IS SCORED!!! The Free Republics are down 3-4 today, semi-finals day, where Rhineland Sued is winning.

INTERVIEW WITH LANE AINESON:

Reporter: We are all here to witness you taking your team to the final this cup, how did you do it?
Aineson: Potter just saw my run into open space, I guess. It was his pass, then my foot struck the ball into the upper right.
Reporter: Now, who do you contribute your win to?
Aineson: I do indeed have to say everybody on that pitch that exact moment, and the wonderful Governments of Kebec, 2nd Brazilian Empire, and the Free Republics for making this tournament possible.
Reporter: And how do you feel after the fallen Diviason?
Aineson: I met him in the Hospital yesterday. He gave us good luck in getting to the finals, and here we are. Mihaud-Louis had no business knocking him down.
Reporter: Lastly, did you... think that your team was doomed to failure?
Aineson: I knew, after two shootouts, that if we tied, it would go to them, so I geared up.
Reporter: What will you think about the match against Pridnestrovia?
Aineson: Easy win.
Reporter: Thank you for being with us today, and scoring that goal.
Aineson: No pr-
Doctor: We just have news on the heart attack of Agi Diviason, he will be out for a year's recovery.
Aineson (walks out of room): Aww sh-t.

by **Kep** » Fri Jul 21, 2017 2:29 pm

3rd Place Game

Free Republics 1–2 2nd Brazilian Empire
@Stade National de Sario

by **Trans-Dniesters** » Sun Jul 23, 2017 8:21 am

Exiles, Part Six

Apartment #327
Khrushchyovka #4237, Avtozavodskaya District
Tiraspol, Transnistrian Socialist State, Pridnestrovia

Alyosha Damiric couldn't sit still. He didn't know what to do now, had absolutely no idea what he was supposed to do. He was feeling very much paranoid, and that was just his own problems he was talking about. He felt as if if his problems were applied to the world at large, things were about to get very bad indeed.

His troubles had all started back at the airport. There, he had been intercepted by representatives of Exiles Football Club on his way to the headquarters of the Federation government-in-exile and offered him a contract to play for their club right then and there. Exiles was recruiting players from the old country to beef up their standing within Pridnestrovia and prove that those who were loyal to the regime which was friendly to Pridnestrovia could also keep up with the rest of Pridnestrovia's football teams and also to highlight the plight of their people. In a moment of distraction and just to stop the people from pestering him, Alyosha had signed the contract without bothering to look over it in detail. In doing so, Alyosha had just bound himself to five years' service to Exiles despite the fact that he knew little if anything about football. Sure, he was a fan of the beautiful game and knew the rules of the sport (except the offside rule, of course) but he had never played a minute of professional football. Heck, he hadn't even played a simple pick-up game with friends and family for over ten years. The chaos and war going on in his homeland had seen to that. Alyosha knew that he was going to make a right fool of himself when he finally set foot on that pitch for the first time as a professional football player.

And that was just the least of Alyosha's problems. After finally extricating himself from the clutches of the Exiles, he had gone to the offices of the Federation government-in-exile and registered himself as a citizen of the Federation as he had planned to do before he had been surrounded by the Exiles. After that, he went and enlisted in the Federation Defense Forces, just as his Pridnestrovian handler had told him to do when he finally arrived in Tiraspol. Now Alyosha was walking around his apartment home wondering how his impulsive and clearly stupid decision to sign on to a football club would affect his commitment to the Defense Forces and Pridnestrovia's secretive experiment known only as "the Project".

Not that Alyosha looked forward to being back in uniform and carrying a rifle back to his homeland. He had experienced war before, as a conscript in the old People's Army which rose up against his homeland's old regime and was the first target attacked by the invading Pridnestrovians striving to restore order and peace to his homeland. It wasn't an experience that Alyosha Damiric was looking forward to repeating, thank you very much.

And there was still the fact that Alyosha was still affiliated with "the Project". He was carrying an alien symbiote around in his head, for God's sake! If that didn't make him any different from the rest of the refugees from the old country, the players of Exiles Football Club, and the soldiers of the Defense Forces then he didn't know what would.

Someone knocked on the door of Alyosha's apartment. "Who is it?" he asked as he stood up to open the door.

"Your destiny, Alyosha," a forebodingly familiar voice replied from the other side. Alyosha shook his head in resignation and opened the door. Major Klaudia Fridrikhovna Glaser of the Pridnestrovian Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) stood waiting at the edge of the doorway. "Well, aren't you going to invite me in, Alyosha?" Glaser asked. "It's good manners from the host to his guest, you know."

"Yes, of course, Comrade Major, come on in," Alyosha said hastily as he stepped aside to let Glaser in.

"Nice place you got here, Alyosha," Glaser said as she looked around the apartment. "It's not everyday that a refugee from your old country gets an apartment in an Avtozadovskaya khrushchyovka."

"The Defense Forces gave me the address and the key to this place after I enlisted with them, just like you told me to do," Damiric replied.

Glaser sat down on Damiric's couch and settled herself down comfortably as if she was an esteemed guest. "And it is very good that you did so, Alyosha, absolutely marvelous," she said as she watched Damiric sit down. "Because, if our sources from inside your old country are to be believed, you and the Defense Forces will be back on her shores sometime very, very soon. So, Alyosha, how has life been for you?"

"It could be better, Comrade Major, but it could be worse also," Damiric replied honestly. "First of all, I don't know what's worse, the fact that I now have to suit up and play for a football team or the fact that I have allowed myself to be at the beck and call of the Pridnestrovian Army even though I don't serve your country at all."

"You're now playing for a football team?" Glaser asked. "I didn't know you played football. Since when did that happen?"

"I don't play football, if you know what I mean," Alyosha replied. "And this happened in the airport, just as I was on my way to get my Federation citizenship and enlist for the Defense Forces. They were from Exiles FC, I think. You know how they are. They're getting their hands on as many refugees as they can and, in my case, they don't look like they know or care that I haven't played even a single minute of professional football."

"How is that possible? I remember seeing you in a football kit one time or another back in your country."

"I'm only a fan, Comrade Major," Damiric explained. "I have some shirts of my favorite teams. I'm sure you have your shirts of your favorite players and teams."

"Yes, that is true," Glaser conceded. She did have replica jerseys from CSKA Tiraspol's Ivan Krasnopresnensky and Abanhfleft's Claire Osgood, to whom people had said Glaser bore a very close and almost uncanny resemblance, hanging in a corner of her wardrobe. "But, getting back to the topic, how is your contract with Exiles going to affect your duties with the Defense Forces and the Project?"

"Do I really have to continue with my duties to the Project?" Alyosha asked. "I'm not complaining about the companionship; Six-Eight-Nine has proven to be a very good friend and confidant for me. What I'm worried about is the fact that you're probably going to use me and the rest of my fellow agents from the old country to expand our alien friends' reach into the old country as well."

"Perish the thought, Alyosha," Glaser said. "You know the protocol of the Project. Our alien friends will only allow themselves to be hosted by willing humans."

"I know that I'm a willing host, but what about the twins?" Damiric asked. "Didn't you have me and one of your other friends approach the twins while they were sleeping and then have them infested?"

"That was a special case during special times," Glaser waved off. "And now the twins are well aware of their, ahem, 'special situation' and are now accepting of their symbiotes as well."

"All right, Comrade Major, let's forget about the Project for a moment and focus upon the more pressing reality that is the fact that the Federation could very well be on its way to returning to the homeland," Alyosha said. "When the time comes that the Federation does come back, can I expect you to do good by my name and make sure that my family will be looked after once the occupation puts them back under the Federation's control?"

"You have my word, Alyosha," Glaser promised. "I know that you didn't part on good terms with your family before you left for Pridnestrovia but the fact that you still care for them even through the distance shows me that I, we did indeed make a good choice in recruiting you for the Project and the future of your country."

"And what about my accidental commitment to the Exiles? What can you do about that, Major?"

"Ah, that unfortunately I cannot help you," Glaser said. "You signed the contract so it's your responsibility to deal with it. I'm sorry, Alyosha, but that's just the way the world is."

"Huh," Alyosha muttered. "So I guess this means the GRU isn't as powerful as it says it is."

"I think you have us confused for the KGB, Alyosha," Glaser said with a grin. "Anyway, Alyosha, thanks for having me. I have to go now as I have to make arrangements for when the Federation finally comes back to your homeland. You know what I'm talking about."

"Yes, of course, Comrade Major," Damiric said as he stood up to open the door for Glaser. "It was a pleasure talking to you."

Glaser went out of Damiric's apartment without another word. Once she had descended to the ground floor of the khrushchyovka and was out on the street, Glaser took out her phone and called a number. "It's Five-Seven-Three," she said. "Six-Eight-Nine is still with us. He's explained his situation to me and he hopes to have it cleared up very soon. And there's nothing to worry about with Six-Four-Zero. Her situation is still under control as well and the Navy hopes to reach her and her crew within the next few days. Yes, Five-One-Four, I will keep you updated on all of our situations over here. We are gearing up for war and occupation once again, after all."

ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКАЯ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНАЯ НОВОСТИ АГЕНЦИЯ
PRIDNESTROVSKAYA TSENTRALNAYA NOVOSTI AGENTSIYA
PRIDNESTROVIAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY

PRIDNESTROVIA HEADS TO FINAL OF 3RD GLOBAL CUP OF SOCCER AFTER DEFEATING CO-HOST 2ND BRAZILIAN EMPIRE ON PENALTIES
By Gustav Tyumenov

The Pridnestrovian national football team celebrates their victory against the 2nd Brazilian Empire in the semfinals of the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer. The Red Army beat the co-hosts of the tournament in a penalty shootout.

SARIO, KEBEC - The Pridnestrovian national football team advanced to their second consecutive Global Cup of Soccer final as the Red Army triumphed over the tournament's co-hosts the 2nd Brazilian Empire in the semifinals following a tense penalty shootout which ended when Mark Polzin scored the decisive penalty after Eric Shizue's costly miss.

After the extra-time victory over Averyickan City and the trouncing of Exitsignia on their way to the semifinals, the Pridnestrovian fans were expecting their team to turn on the style once again and score numerous goals to sweep aside the esteemed co-hosts on their way to the final where Rhineland Sued was waiting for their opponent after the newcomer nation had shocked international football stalwarts the Free Republics 4-3 in their semifinal in the 2nd Brazilian Empire.

But the Brazilians, eager to impress their Kebecois co-hosts against the runners-up of the last edition of the competition, held firm against their opposition and prevented the Pridnestrovians from scoring any goals in the first half, an unheard-of event in the current competition since the Red Army's opening day draw against Vangaziland. Wilfried Halberstam, normally the creator of the lion's share of the Red Army's chances in any given game, was stifled in this game by the stubborn Brazilian defense, who did allow Der Raumdeuter any space in which he could investigate and create chances for the Red Army.

The breakthrough would not come until three minutes before the hour mark of the game when Boyan Radev was finally able to squeeze through a gap in the Brazilian defense just in time to receive the cross from Wilfried Halberstam, who had been forced into a wider position after the Brazilians had proven too tight in defense for the CSKA Tiraspol forward to exploit any gaps. For his part, Radev needed only one touch with his chest to control Halberstam's ball into the box before the Marinos Thimpodopoulos forward curled his foot around the ball and smashed it into the roof of the net.

But Pridnestrovia's lead lasted all of five minutes before Molney Santos blasted past the Red Army's defense, cut into the box in a decent imitation of Valentin Funar, and then sent the ball into the far post with his left foot, also like Valentin Funar. The Pridnestrovian defense did not look like they appreciated this particular imitation of their esteemed teammate's skill though, especially that it was used against them in a competitive game and the person who did the cutting inside also managed to score against them. The score would remain pegged at 1-1 throughout regular time despite both teams' best efforts to get the lead, and not even extra time could separate the two teams from each other despite the introduction of their respective fourth substitutions to hopefully swing the game in their favor.

For the penalty shootout, the 2nd Brazilian Empire elected to kick first. Brazilian striker Nicolas Bezerra slotted home calmly from the spot to beat Ferdinand Abbing and set the tone for the shootout, but the Pridnestrovians responded to the pressure marvelously with Boyan Radev making the first penalty as well and the other Pridnestrovians scoring from the spot too. When the time came for Eric Shizue to take his kick, Ferdinand Abbing got close to the Brazilian midfielder and whispered something into his ear. No one knows what exactly it was that Abbing said to Shizue but whatever it was, it had the desired effect of Abbing successfully saving Shizue's spot kick. Everyone else made their penalties after that, and then it all came down to young Mark Polzin to make the final spot kick. If he scored, Pridnestrovia were through to the final. If he missed or his shot was saved, the shootout would go to sudden death. Polzin took a deep breath and sent Pridnestrovia through to the final of the 3rd Global Cup of Soccer when he sent Facundo Muniz to the left and the ball to the right.

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: Sometimes penalty shootouts are a good thing

Pridnestrovian national football team manager Werner Ceausescu: "Sometimes penalty shootouts can also be a good thing. Yes, I admit that I sometimes question the importance and relevance of penalty shootouts in the modern game but when it comes to deciding such tight games as these, maybe penalty shootouts do still deserve a place in the game. Anyone could have won or lost this game whether it happened in regular time, extra time, or on penalties."

On Rhineland Sued, their final opponent: "They may be newcomers but you don't get to the final of any tournament without some good talent in your team. Sure, they got here courtesy of two shootouts as well but nobody scores four past the Free Republics for fun too. I can already see that this is going to be a good game ahead of us. May the best team win, of course."

2ND BRAZILIAN EMPIRE
GK: 1 Muniz
RB: 7 Cristóvão █ (Boliviano - 63')
RCB: 2 Luz █
LCB: 3 Monteire (D. Duarte - 104')
LB: 4 Carioca
RM: 6 Shizue
CM: 10 Mesa (Tempestade - 81')
LM: 5 Fernán (Robertinho - 75')
RS: 11 B. Silva
ST: 9 Bezerra
LS: 21 Molney

PRIDNESTROVIA
GK: 13 Abbing
RB: 14 Tymoshenko (Kardashenko - 80')
CB: 3 Vasilyev
LB: 17 Vadimenko (Nochevski - 59' █)
RM: 20 Polzin
RCM: 26 Nesterenko
LCM: 8 Bogomolov
LM: 6 Pajari (Larionov - 80')
RS: 9 Radev
CAM: 23 Halberstam █ (Khvashchynski - 107')
LS: 7 Schermer █

MATCH STATS
Possession
Pridnestrovia: 52%
2nd Brazilian Empire: 48%
Shots
Pridnestrovia: 14 (9 on target)
2nd Brazilian Empire: 11 (7 on target)
Corners
Pridnestrovia: 7
2nd Brazilian Empire: 5
Fouls
Pridnestrovia: 18
2nd Brazilian Empire: 16

by **Rhineland Sued** » Sun Jul 23, 2017 2:06 pm

Before the game:

"Guys. Listen up. Just because we cream the Free Republics and slide by two other matches doesn't mean we will win automatically. Pridnestrovia has beaten the crap out of the Brazilian Empire last week. On penalties."

"We musn't let our game down. Play every game like we did the Free Republics. Play every game like we did Abaja. Like Kebec. Like any other team. We can't let our guard down. This first cup, we must take home. We MUST Take home some silverware. We didn't enter this tournament for S+G. The Premier of the Rhineland Sued is here, watching y'all. You must impress him. You must impress me."

"If you guys lose, don't blame it on their strength, if they have any. Don't blame it on Agi, don't blame it on the Premier. Don't blame it on me, only blame it on yourself. RSFG on three. One. Two. Three. R-S-F-G!!!"

by **2nd Brazilian Empire** » Sun Jul 23, 2017 2:20 pm

cutoff

Grand Finale
Enter the Estádio do Horizonte (Horizon Stadium) in Brazilian capital Brazília, the most expensive and biggest sporting venue in Prime Earth.

Capacity is 375,000 and can be fully evacuated within twenty-five minutes. The project is from the 1930s, however, with the breakout of WW3, it was delayed to the distant year of 2005. Initially projected by César de Salles, who was inspired by the architectural mix of Rationalist-Fascism and Stripped Classicism. Will this contemporary Colosseum host your triumphal march or your worst nightmare? Let's see...

GCOS 3 // Kebec & Second Brazilian Empire

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