Starsian soccer history

In this time period we see the development of the Starsian football teams, they started all as small community clubs and through time grew into the big corporations you see them as today.
Back in the day before we entered multiverse competitions the quality was alot lower and the game was very diffrent as the pace was slower, there was less money involved more competition between the top teams and generally more players who could reach a decent to maybe even a good level in the national leagues.
Until the 1980s the clubs played on a relatively lower level and football was a sport seen as fun and for everyone but this was all to change when more money got involved and the professionalization in the 1980s began, not that the players before are not professionals in the sense they get paid and can make a living, but compared to the multiverse at the time in the 1960s and 1970s the Starsian team would have been a big joke to the multiverse community.

Two people that saw this transition up close during their time as players are Gordon Borov (1978) and Keenan Fortuna (1977) who were born in a time where the Starsian economy was industrially booming, alot of people were needed to work in the factories to produce weapons to fuel the expansionist wars of the government.
Our government always was at war during this time, our population was growing exponentially and even so quickly that we ran out of land to build on and could no longer house the amount of people we had, after long deliberations war was declared with the purpose of gaining new ground to build on and to build suitable homes, in this time the Starsians were a hated nation we were a large strong nation only wishing for more.

Keenan Fortuna: ''When you grow up in a time like that, everything is quite unsure even if you are gifted with a special talent there was always the chance they would ask you to join the military, not saying we lived in fear but i think for the current generations its very hard to imagine how our nations looked back then and what we went through''

Gordon Borov: ''At school the war also was a thing you were confronted with everyday. we played football at school during lunch break and after school to forget our worries, even as children we had alot of worries because we did not know how our futures would look and revenge bombings of other nations were always possible.....they usually happened at night but there also have been reports of a select few during daytime cousing hundreds of deaths.''

As they grew up they saw good clubs like Phoenix United and Nordere Lande later to become Blizzard Academy and they witnessed the first golden generation of Starsians at the time.
This generation was led by a striker Adrian Broskov who sadly passed away a few years ago (2037) at age 72 who really showed a new way of football and experienced the professionalization first hand.
Most of these players have died by now due to the life expectancy at their time of birth was barely 70 years old and it has only increased by 6,4 years so far making our country have a low life expectancy because the large focus on industry but also the many people and the wars do not make the environment alot better.
Lung diseases are death cause 1 in The 14 Stars, the air quality is very especially in the larger cities where alot of people live tight on eachother and large highways function as roads through the city.
Back to football, from the legendary team with Broskov at its head as striker only 1 single player currently in 2039 is still alive and able to talk with us about his experience, its defender Horus Mordov (1964) who played for Ancient Forest and Blizzard to later become a coach for some time but is now retired except for some volunteer scouting duties he fulfills for the association's national side sometimes.

Horus Mordov: ''We experienced the decades before that big industry, what they say is true but they have not seen the poverty we saw with those people in the 1960s even food was expensive to most people.
We as football players were seen as a bridge between rich and poor, most of us came from poor backgrounds, im no exception but the joy we could bring to more then a billion people cannot be described.
Me and Broskov were good friends, i went to Blizzard for one season at the latter days of my career because i really wanted to play on his team and it was something i will remember.
Most older people still alive like me know every day we are given is special, we are grateful for every given day and it is sad to see people like Broskov pass.....but its the laws of life even for me it someday, perhaps not very far away it will be the end of a 7 decade long journey that i was allowed to make.''

Its true that the 1950s and 60s were the poor years as the Starsians did not have a civil war nor a large war but in the 1940s the economy collapsed and unemployment rose sky high, during Broskov and Mordov's youth they were still rebuilding and bouncing back from that collapse.
Gordon Borov and Keenan Fortuna who were born in the late 1970s saw players like Broskov and Mordov on TV and watched those players closely seeing them as role models for what they aspired to become later.

Gordon Borov ''I think my first memory really of a match comes to mind at age 5 for me, in 1983 when i saw the rivalry between Blizzard and Phoenix as they fought on the last matchday for the title, both teams had amazing players Blizzard had Broskov but Phoenix had names like Zaniro who were great at the time.''

Keenan Fortuna ''I dont played for Blizzard myself but i also looked up to Broskov, for me also at age 5 in 1982 the unexpected championship of Omega the government sponsored team was huge, no one had ever seen such a big upset victory as Blizzard and Phoenix had many star players and Omega was seen more as a leftovers team.
They weren't bad but title candidates? no one ever expected that but they would go on to become a competitive side especially when they started signing the likes of Marcus Blade who was part of our generation''

As they continued to grow up they discovered that they had talent for football, some players had a more easy road then others but this was also the time that professionalization became more important, to really guide and help players become the best version of themselves the clubs needed to do more and more.
In 1988 Keenan Fortuna was scouted by Omega, he never had been a good field player but his youth coach at the time suggested him to give goalkeeping a try since he was a sharp guy and not afraid of the ball, this turned out a big success as Keenan was natural and since he became the goalkeeper there not a single goal was scored in that season.
Omega had picked up those stories and were instantly a fan and offered him a contract to enter their ''academy project'' in which education and football had been combined at the expenses of the government.
In 1990 Gordon Borov at age 12 was offered his contract at Blizzard who had been working on a similar academy system but they did not have government funds so it took longer to develop.
In 1990 Keenan Fortuna was also joined by another player that would go on to stun the nation, the current (2039) football association president Marcus Blade was offered a similar contract as Fortuna, he was a striker a confident striker and together they started to make name and fame as ''the deadly duo'' for Omega's youth team.

Many good players were born during this era in the 1980s that would later go on to become the first forms of a national team which we until then had never had before because we did not concern with the multiverse.
In 1990 the successor to Marcus Blade was already born and someone who would change the scene forever, Maximillian Flare a familiar name certainly but more famous name were coming.
In 1995 Keenan Fortuna made his debut as 1st goalkeeper of Omega and Marcus Blade would one year later become a starter too in 1995 being a substitute often brought on in the last 10 minutes of a game, Keenan Fortuna and Marcus Blade also played against Adrian Broskov their hero, in his farewell season.
Broskov in 1995 was old, a shadow of his former self but still a player with impressive records but Blizzard was not able to win any prizes that year leaving him a very sad and silent farewell.

Keenan Fortuna ''When i played against him only once as he was injured the other match it was a bit of a dream being shattered, i expected a hero a great player and tough shots all over.
In reality like all of us, we get older suffer from injuries and in our 30s are not as strong and fast anymore as back when we were young and full of energy and dreams and in this case i was the young rookie and he was the veteran.
He looked unhappy, that season had been thrown off by injuries and failure to bring his team to victory against teams who had younger and better players and this was also a thing that we only understood later.

There was a diffrence between the 1980s and the 1990s, in the 1980s the players that were brought from the youth had not gotten any support or training, they trained themselves on the streets and fields.
There was no youth academy, there was no youth teams back then got signed at age 12 only to play matches for their youth team but he never got weekly trainings and education provided by his club he did not get the time to develop his skill as far as we managed to perfect ours.
This was the reason all new players debuting in the 1990s were far superior to those debuting in the 1980s and all players from Broskov's generation retired very quickly after that season or got fired, it was really painful to see the league kicking out all players that we once admired on the TV and saw as our heroes.
He did play a decent match against me that day but did not score, after the match i rushed to him to talk to him but he did not want to talk about it, he only told me that it was time for him to quit and that the rookies had made this clear to him now and its a lesson that still applies today i would say, the rookies will let you know when its time for you to consider a retirement as they have the future and you don't at that point.''

Gordon Borov ''When i saw those veterans play i really did not understand why they played so bad, i even thought they did it on purpose perhaps until i later after years realized aswell they never had so much training.
We were just alot more skilled and trained then they had ever been, however there is a footnote to Fortuna's story and that is that this story would repeat itself years later when i retired myself after our first multiverse tournament.
I was already too old when it started but Marcus Blade someone my age was the coach and he selected me, a bit of friends politics but all of us playing back then were too old, we should not have done that.
I regret playing there until this day and it showed me that the multiverse is superior to us and only now decades later we are starting to catch up with players who compared to use back then are insane, today's players are able to perfectionize their skill to the utmost detail and the level of the national team is so high i have never seen it before.''

Before Adrian Broskov died we in 2030 sat down with him to talk about the state of football as it is today and indeed that last season how he experienced his time as player compared to now.

Adrian Broskov in 2030 ''When i was a player the game was very diffrent, we had fun both on and off the field went to the bars did hang around with the girls and did everything that they now forbid.
It was a good time, we actually could get our minds off things and we played better or atleast we thought so but actually we all these years wasted time by not improving our skill on the field, not saying we could have competed with the new rookies but we would have been more fit and more prepared then alot of us were including myself.
I remember that game against Omega very well, a young Keenan Fortuna who seemed to be a giant in the goal catching each of my shots with the greatest ease while in fact he was just alot more trained then i was.
When in the second half Marcus Blade made his debut we knew it was over, when a man scores three goals in his debut match then you can talk about a potential legendary player.
We dont have alot of those anymore like we used to, i think in the current team only Kira Blade is someone you could call legendary not to say the others arent super good but she has something that others lack and you can't inherit that even if you're the best player and she developed those traits all by herself.
After that miserable season i did want to continue but to struggle and force myself to my limit every single match to keep up with young rookies that have so much potential is something i did not want, i chose to make room for them so they could train themselves into a new star team which we got eventually later.''

During these years the national team was also formed or atleast the beginnings of it, the Association under the leadership of Gregory Osman formed a team for all international competitions in 1989 with the old guard, those players were quickly replaced with rookies after the new generation started entering the league.

1989 National team squad

1999 National Team ''Squad of tomorrow''

This is only 10 years and all players from the past have been erased and replaced by younger and better players except one and thats Horus Mordov because he was a few years younger.
He was kept to bring experience and order to the young defense and teach his skills to the new generation, he would retire in 2000 following a dissapointing last season due to an injury that almost took him a year, he did not regret the farewell but it was one of the last old players disappearing freeing the way for a new generation.
More better players would appear and would form the core of the team that would eventually go into the first multiverse tournament ever but we are getting a bit ahead of time now.
In the 1990s domestically Phoenix and Blizzard dominated and it was in the 90s that saw Marcus Blade transfer to Phoenix and leave his friend Keenan Fortuna behind as new players appeared in the league and started making their mark for the years to come the later 90s and early 2000s.
Players such as Zeyan Chardan, Quentin Ramirez, Yusuf Mustafir, Adam Kayden and also the 1990s saw the first female player ever enter the league team after the mixed teams rule was applied.
Juliëtte Moreau was the first female player ever, she was a starter for Rose Gryphon and a role model for girls into football that grew up in the 1990s with her elegant but very effective playstyle.
She never made the national team but word goes that is was a corruption related matter as not everyone in the 90s accepted female players in the league it was not until 20-30 years later it became common and widely accepted.

As the century turned the rivalry between Phoenix and Blizzard was interrupted in the 2000s by other teams taking titles away from them and their skill started to decline ever so slightly.
Blizzard was able to win some but Phoenix did not win any prizes for 15 years one of the longest times Phoenix had to do without a big prize such as a league title but it would change, in the 2000s also many of the current players were born and the players we used to see with most prominently Kira Blade.
She signifies another turn of a generation, the generation of the 2000s that we would not see on the field for a decade or two but still were a new kind of people, they grew up with modern technology a better environment, more wealth and less wars with Alexander Stark firmly governing the nation in the right direction which he would continue for many years to come bringing alot of stability to our chaotic nation.

Inbetween those generations also another generation was making its way up the ranks, closer to making their debut and also willing to push out the old men who currently made up alot of the teams.
Marcus Blade was the best player at the moment in the 2000s he was the star everyone looked up to but he understood that with each year passing and not