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Hello everyone,

I’m Baverone, former LA, former GM, and also former U21 and Senior National Team coach for Portugal.

I would like to share two ideas regarding National Teams that I believe could improve the game experience and increase competitiveness.

### 1. National Team Players Availability

In National Team games, players should always be in maximum shape and free from injuries.

This would make competitions fairer, allowing managers to use the full potential of their national teams instead of being dependent on how individual club managers handle players.

Injuries could also be ignored during National Team games, so players would not be “double punished” by:
- being unable to play for the NT;
- and also losing training minutes.

If this idea is considered too impactful, I would at least suggest an alternative:
during club friendly matches only, players should still be able to receive training minutes, even if they are injured and unable to play official games.

### 2. More Competitions for National Teams

Some years ago, I suggested that having more games and competitions for National Teams could make this part of the game more interesting and engaging.

Even though the game is naturally slow-paced, features like Private Leagues and BBM helped bring more activity and competitiveness to the community. I believe National Teams could benefit from something similar.

One possible idea would be introducing an “Olympic Games” tournament:
- Held once every year (every 4 seasons);
- Restricted to players up to 24 years old;
- Players who started the “year” at age 21 would remain eligible for the full competition.

These are still raw ideas, but I wanted to share them with the community.

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts or additional suggestions.

Best regards,
Baverone

Hi dear GM-Perpete,

Thanks for your answer,

Its in fact the "third" interpretation,
A player could still play for NT (U21 included) if injured, and an Injured could play on Thurday but only if Friendly!

12th Player could be a different player, for a different Strategy perhaps. Maybe its not a good resolution for AA, but its good for U21, or maybe inverted, i dont have a closed opinion about it.
To be really honest, i really think that NTs and not for every player, so if you have 1 player on that, means your player is the best or one of the bests, and that should me more rewarded!

About more games, just wanted to know if that are in a radar of the Staff.

Best Regards,
Baverone

Hello dear Jokeru,

Thanks for your answer,

That may be true. A “high-end” NT would always have their top 12 players available, but weaker NTs would benefit from that as well.

To be honest, I think the big gap is not between the top 12 players themselves, but in the depth and resources to have many quality options available. It affects weaker teams much more when they miss a key player than it does teams like Spain or China, which usually have enough depth to compensate.

More Competitions for National Teams and for who are we doing this 200-500 managers?

It's silly because the majority of managers does not care about the NT at all.
And more competitions won't change that.

The best and most realistic suggestion made about national teams is, according me, to add an U25 team. It's very unusual to have a 25 year old player in NT so that makes sense. Moreover 22-25 is exactly 4 seasons, like U21, so it would follow the same structure and should not be too difficult to make for the devs. And finally that would allow to 98 additional users to manage a national team

Joe

I don't really see any negatives regarding this proposal, seems excellent!

Hello

In the suggestion thread please give me your insights on my last suggestion on this matter.

I agree with your suggestions +1.but I don't agree that injuries should not occur at all.

we need better way to migrate them over all .. Please give ur kind reply

Thank you