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           WELCOME TO THE ITALIAN FOOTBALL MANAGER!!!
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Your goal in this game is to take charge of a football team in the Italian
leagues and manage them to the first place in the first division, starting
at the bottom of the 4th division.

GETTING STARTED
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To run the game, just type 'italy'. When confronted with the main menu, make
your choice using the cursor keys and then press ENTER. When starting a new
game, you will have to type in your team's name. By just pressing ENTER, you
will automatically get the name 'Romanese'. You can also choose one of 72 teams
already in the Italian league. Just follow the on-screen instructions.
To design your teams clothes use the cursor keys to select different sections
and colors and press <ENTER> ONLY when you have finished doing so. All the
designing is done via the cursor keys. Choose the difficulty level you wish
to play at.

The league structure:
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          Serie A                        Relegated : 4 teams
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             ³                           Promoted  : 4 teams
          Serie B                        Relegated : 4 teams
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      ³       Serie C1      ³                Promoted  : 2 from each group
    Grp A                 Grp B              Relegated : 3 from each group
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   ³              Serie C2             ³         Promoted  : 2 from each group
 Grp A             Grp B             Grp C       Relegated : 4 from each group
   ³                 ³                 ³


THE GAME
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During the first two weeks you will not be able to make any transfers. You
can view your current squad and look at their individual stats.  The number
which appears with each player indicates how good he is, 0 being the worst and
500 the best. A player's rating may even go higher than 500, depending on how
good he plays. This is only a measurement of how good a player is.

TRANSFERS
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Transfers can only be made every 3rd week and a maximum of 5 at a time.
You can buy players from other clubs in Italy, or internationals playing
outside Italy. When making an offer for a player, you must consider the
following facts: Good players are hard to get, because their clubs won't let
go of them that easy, unless you can come up with the money. You can offer a
club less for a player than he is actually worth, but that will decrease your
chances of getting the deal. Any offer less than 80% of the player's price will
be rejected by a club. High offers will result in better chances. If your
offer was rejected, you will have to wait 10 games before you can make an
offer for the same player again. When selling your players, you can't ask too
much, for clubs don't like to pay too much. Anything more than double a
player's price will be rejected by other clubs. If a club rejects your offer,
you will have to wait 5 games before you can attempt to sell the player again.
Clubs will also not buy any player that is injured or suspended. At the start
of the game, it is good to sell players at every opportunity and buy better
players to replace them so that you can start building a good team that will
get promotion (or avoid relegation!). Depending on which level you are playing,
you will soon find out what the average rating is you will need to survive in
each division. These are roughly the figures for level EASY:
  Serie C/2  -  60     ( Remember these figures can't guarantee survival.)
  Serie C/1  -  140    ( For winning the different divisions, your rating )
  Serie B    -  280    ( should be 100 more than the survival rating. This )
  Serie A    -  400    ( is only a guideline and you can even win a division )
               ( on the survival rating or be relegated on the )
               ( winning rating. )

-Scout Option: The scout is there to tell you where to find players of certain
      ratings and positions. The more you pay the scout, the better deal he is
      likely to spot. Remember, a player spotted by your scout is not
      necessarily accepting a offer from you - he is just the best available
      player compared to his price, as spotted by your scout. The more you pay
      the scout, the further he will compare players. If you pay him 1,000 for
      instance, he might just take the first 2 players he gets and recommend the
      best of them, while if you pay him say 5,000, he will maybe take 10 or
      so players and compare all off them and then recommend the best of them.

Remember, on any screen selection, international players will be marked by a
small dot ù to help you from identifying them.

 HINT : To make money (and thus buy better players), always try to sell players
    at double their value. If clubs don't take them, try again later, also
    for double the value.

FINANCES
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Your finances are very important. The better your team perform, the more
people will attend the games and the higher your income will be. You must
also pay your players a weekly fee (each player has a fixed fee which might
increase if they stay at your club long enough), pay money to keep your
grounds in shape and some diverse expenses. You will also have to keep an eye
on the following things:
-Stadium capacity : You must build seats for your stadium. Remember - the
     bigger your stadium, the more people can come and watch and the bigger
     your income will be. Use the indicator at the match report to see how
     many people attended your match. If there wasn't a 100% attendance, then
     you don't need to enlarge your stadium. A friendly word of warning -
     don't go into dept. Remember, Italy boasts the finest football league in
     the world and obviously the people will attend Serie A matches in their
     thousands. For security reasons you must have 50,000 seats at your
     stadium before entering Serie A. If you don't meet the standards, you
     will stay in Serie B. It is not necessary to expand your stadium beyond
     100 000 seats. At normal speed, seats are build at a rate of 500 seats
     per week. High speed is double as fast, but three times as expensive.
-Pitch Condition : You need at least some grass on your pitch to get promotion
     to Serie C1 and you need smooth full grass pitches to get promotion after
     that. Draining is necessary to keep your pitch in its current condition.
-Scoreboard/Floodlights : The scoreboard and floodlights will increase your
     home income per spectator, because with floodlights you can host night
     games which is more convenient for spectators and the scoreboard will
     increase the quality of the services you provide to your spectators.
-Ground facilities :  With bad facilities you can only accommodate small
     crowds, because they have no parking near the stadium and the restroom
     facilities are inefficient. The better your facilities, the better your
     attendance will be, depending on your log position of course.
-Press facilities : This determine the publicity your team gets which directly
     influences sponsor interests in your team. If you can't provide good
     publicity, you will very easily loose a sponsor and it will be very
     difficult to get one back. On the other hand, good press facilities will
     result in better sponsorship opportunities and sponsorship bonuses.
-Medical staff : The main use for the medical staff is to reduce injuries to
     your players. The better your medical staff is, the better the chances
     will be that a player will need less time to recover from a injury. On
     the other hand,the better your medical staff, the higher their fees will
     be.
-Youth team : As any good club, you also have a youth scheme at your club. The
     more money you put into it, the sooner you may reap the results. The youth
     team produces players for your senior squad and the more money you put into
     it, the sooner and more often they will produce players.
-Ground Maintenance : The various facilities you have at the stadium, obviously
     won't last forever. But you can slow down its degrading by paying more
     money for the maintenance. If you don't pay much money, expect your
     scoreboard, floodlights, press and ground facilities to deteriorate with
     regular intervals.

GENERAL INFORMATION
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Your "General Information" option can be very helpful. Here you can see how
many players you have and how many you may select for the next match. Only
three international players allowed per match. You can see which team you will
play next, the opposition's current log position (only if it is a league game)
and where, how many cups and tournaments you have won, and in which division you
are playing. Pressing 'R' will show you your team's full record up to date,
including all previous seasons. Pressing 'F' will display the full fixtures for
the season (in the league) and the results of those games already played. If you
press 'Y', you will get a short summary of your youth team. You can decide
which type of football you want them to play, which will affect the type of
players they produce for the senior team.

QUITTING AND SAVING
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At any time you can save your current game and then later continue it, but
when you save a game, you will overwrite the game previously saved at the same
number. Five games can thus be saved at a time. Just go to the 'Quit Game'
option and select "Save" and choose a number.

PLAYER SELECTION
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Selecting your team for the next match is done by simply moving the selector
bar to the player and pressing ENTER to select or unselect. Remember that you
must always try to have 11 players fit for a game. Injured players and
players sent off in a previous game won't be able to play in matches. Also
try to select a well balanced team, not just defenders or strikers. The
strength of your team is calculated by taking the average of the players you
have selected.  Remember, only 3 internationals per game. Full-backs,
half-backs and sweepers all count as defenders. Wings count as midfielders
and forwards also count as strikers. Select at least 1 goalkeeper, 3 defenders,
3 midfielders and 2 strikers. You can select the other 2 players in positions
you feel need improvement. When selecting, the players that have played in the
previous game and are eligible to play again, will automatically be highlighted.
Teamplay is an indication of how well your players combine. Making transfers
will decrease that, while keeping the squad unchanged will increase teamplay.
Teamplay has an effect on your team's final rating.

The computer will then take charge and display all the results, reports of the
game and transfers made by other clubs. The match report should be read and
taken seriously. You can choose if you want to see the results of all the
divisions, or only your division. The same option applies for viewing the logs.

CUPS AND TOURNAMENTS
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Besides playing in the league, you will also be playing for the knock-out
cup. During the season, you will receive more information on this using the
"General Information" option. During the off-season, you can also participate
in friendly tournaments. Although they are sometimes quite hard to win ,
they can be financially rewarding in prize money. The top groups have good
teams and the bottom groups have weaker teams. If you are anything below
Serie B, your chances of winning will be quite slim. If you are really good,
you can also qualify for one of the three European-cup competitions, the UEFA,-
Champions,- and Cup Winners Cup. To qualify for them, you need to be the
Italian Cup winners, Serie A champions or finish among the first 4 teams that
have not qualified by one way or another for a European competition. By winning
a European competition, you automatically qualify for it the next season. If the
Italian cup winners are also the Serie A champions, then the runners-up in the
Italian cup will qualify for the Cup Winners Cup. If you qualify for more than
one competition, you will be entered only into one. The order of significance
is : Champions,- Cup Winners,-and UEFA cup. If you win the Champions Cup, it
means that you are the best club in Europe, for all the champions of the other
countries enter this competition. You can also play in the World Club Cup final,
which is contested between the European and South American champions, the
European Super Cup (European Champions vs. European Cup Winners) and the Italian
Super Cup (Italian Champions vs. Italian Cup Winners).

European competition means big money: 200,000 for a lose, 250,000 for a draw and
300,000 bonus for a win! All these money is paid out from sponsors, prize money,
and TV-contracts.

ENDING THE GAME
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You can play up to 50 seasons if you want, (registered version only!) but the
game will end as soon as you have won everything you can (Serie A, Italian Cup,
the 3 European Cups and the 2 Super Cups). Then you have achieved everything
possible and you will retire. If you played 50 seasons, you will be fired for
not producing the goods in the (quite long) time given to you.

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IMPORTANT : On the shareware version of the game, you will only be allowed to
        play two seasons in Serie A, then the program will terminate. You
        will also not be allowed to save games once you are in Serie A.
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If you have any problems with memory (a message 'Far Heap Allocate' might
occur), try to remove some memory resident programs and try again.

IMPORTANT - If you have started the program and it just quits you back to DOS,
        then you also have memory problems. Try to remove some memory
        resident programs or boot from a DOS floppy that doesn't load
        anything into memory. Another sympton of memory shortage is that
        the program sometimes hangs without any reason.
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REGISTRATION - Please see the file "register.doc" for more details.
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e-mail address:  [e-mail]  (rather use this one)
         [e-mail]
postal address:  Charl Gerber
                 PO Box 1106
                 Stellenbosch
                 7599
                 South Africa
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Feel free to send me mail any time. I would welcome ideas and suggestions and
would be glad to help, should you have any problems with the game.
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All praise to God the almighty who helped me and gave me strength to do this.
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