After piggybacking awhile on [MENTION=229091]Millerson[/MENTION] Fantasy Kits and Logos thread, I've decided to make my own post featuring my fantasy League of the Americas.
In this thread, I will be posting a series of fantasy leagues built from scratch (including logos / uniforms / team names etc.) on the premise that soccer in the Americas (North / Central / Caribbean) had the same rich history as on the other side of the ocean. For players, I am attempting to start each team with only homegrown players.
For example, the North American league has players assigned to their birth state e.g. Christian Pulisic of Hershey, PA would play for Bethlehem Steel. I also include non-US dual-nationals Guisseppi Rossi (New Jersey Blues) Neven Subotic (Reno Rovers) assigned to team closest to birth cities - even players born in America with no national team ties like Gotoku Sakai (New York City SC).
The same goes for Liga Centroamericana where Mexican players are split into teams based on birth city e.g Carlos Vela born in Cancun stars for Club Cancun. There are also essentially national teams e.g. Costa Rica FC / CD Honduras / Club Canal (Panama).
For the Caribbean League, I had to get more creative. Using some of [MENTION=227392]ggdaris[/MENTION] national team files as well as importing basically every possible dual national, (e.g. half of Netherlands is eligible for Suriname / France for Martinique or Guadeloupe) I was able to get some pretty competitive teams featuring players with real-life ties to the fake clubs.
None of this would have been possible without the incredible option files already out there and full credit to Nicoultras, Voltes5 (MLS file) for helping provide the bones that make this option file fully playable and realistic for me. For now I'm focused on the teams, logos, and kits, but eventually I could upload .ted files for the full league assuming I'm able to gather permissions from the necessary parties.
In this thread, I will be posting a series of fantasy leagues built from scratch (including logos / uniforms / team names etc.) on the premise that soccer in the Americas (North / Central / Caribbean) had the same rich history as on the other side of the ocean. For players, I am attempting to start each team with only homegrown players.
For example, the North American league has players assigned to their birth state e.g. Christian Pulisic of Hershey, PA would play for Bethlehem Steel. I also include non-US dual-nationals Guisseppi Rossi (New Jersey Blues) Neven Subotic (Reno Rovers) assigned to team closest to birth cities - even players born in America with no national team ties like Gotoku Sakai (New York City SC).
The same goes for Liga Centroamericana where Mexican players are split into teams based on birth city e.g Carlos Vela born in Cancun stars for Club Cancun. There are also essentially national teams e.g. Costa Rica FC / CD Honduras / Club Canal (Panama).
For the Caribbean League, I had to get more creative. Using some of [MENTION=227392]ggdaris[/MENTION] national team files as well as importing basically every possible dual national, (e.g. half of Netherlands is eligible for Suriname / France for Martinique or Guadeloupe) I was able to get some pretty competitive teams featuring players with real-life ties to the fake clubs.
None of this would have been possible without the incredible option files already out there and full credit to Nicoultras, Voltes5 (MLS file) for helping provide the bones that make this option file fully playable and realistic for me. For now I'm focused on the teams, logos, and kits, but eventually I could upload .ted files for the full league assuming I'm able to gather permissions from the necessary parties.
