Simeone Di Bradini
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Simeone Di Bradini (also known as "SDB") is known as the most famous Starblaydi sportsman of all time. Renowned in his playing days as one of the best footballers in the world, Simeone's other qualities were recognised by the World Cup Committee as they voted him in as their President.
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Career at Club Level
Iskara Daii
Simeone Di Bradini started his football career at Iskara Daii, his home-town side. Initally 'the Daii' were a semi-professional team playing in a small suburb of the Starblaydi captial city, Jhanna, in residing Starblaydi Football League. As part of an excellent team, a 17 year-old Simeone led the team from the front to being one of the top-twelve in Starblaydia, part of the Alpha Division. This rise came just in time as the league was quickly restructured, breaking the 12-team league into three Divisions of six teams each.
This change did nothing to slow down the Daii, who revelled in their ability to play and beat the other five 'top' teams in Starblaydia. They topped the new Alpha Division multiple times, with Simeone top-scoring for the club in every season, usually earning himself the top-scorer's position in the entire league. While at the Daii, club-mates included his brother, Roberto Di Bradini as well as other famous Starblaydi footballers Rodriguez Da Silva, Ki-Jana Carter, Rastian Salaam, Jean-Pierre Durand and Darius Belizaire.
Soon, however, Starblaydia's top young marksman was courted by some of the top clubs in the world. Eventually it was the giants of The Belmore Family: their most-famous club, Alan City, offered a jaw-dropping SC40,000,000 for him, something that no club could refuse. The Daii also received a striker in return, paying SC14M for Belmoron striker Alan Winters.
A Source at the club said: "This is the highest price we could have ever dreamed of getting for Simeone. 'SDB' is at the peak of his powers, and getting a young Belmore Striker as part of the deal was another bonus. I think we've bought a player who, at twenty-two, may be better than SDB was at that age."
Simeone said: "I'm elated to be given the Number Nine, worn by the one and only Alan Belmore, that's a true honour. Would you turn down Distefano's Number Eleven? Or the Ten worn by Maradonna or Pele? How about Thierrt Henry's Fourteen? I'm furthuring my career and giving the Daii, who invested so much into me, Forty Million Credits. Thats a helluvan honour to be priced that high."
Alan City
Though he was out of sight of the average Starblaydi, word filtered through about how well Simeone was doing. He played in a team that could well have been the greatest ever, with the best players of the time from all over the world such as Nick Yu, Thorgeirr Axewielder, Doug Freech, Naoki Maeda, Sasijilvenku Dikelesinivetisaru and Rikki Stone.
The club was bankrolled by President Alan Belmore himself, so it was no large suprise in that they paid out taxpayers' funds to purchase the most expensive players from around the globe. In their first season the side named 'team of the godmods' won the league, with Simeone out-scoring the rest of the league in the second season as Alan City won the Belmoron Premier League title yet again.
After seasons and seasons of winning the Belmoron Premier League, the Godmod side slowly broke up, with the world never to see one of it's like again. Simeone left The Belmore Family as a very-rich veteran footballer, looking for a place to ply his trade and finish his playing career. He found it in Vilita.
Kiiarana City
When his Contract at Alan City expired after World Cup 19, Simeone moved back to the Atlantian Oceania region, just a geographical stone's-throw away from his home nation, and moved to Kiiarana City in Vilita. He became Player-Coach at Kiiarana City of Vilita, , replacing Alexander Östling, leading them to the Stellar Division.
After his swansong in World Cup 20, where he also presented the World Cup Trophy to Vilitan Captain Santo Kecker, SDB took a back seat at Kiiarana to concentrate on his managerial career, while still strapping on the boots, even at 40, so show the Declasse Division how it was done. This decision paid off when his team were promoted to the Stellar Division in Seasons 15 and 17. He was even Kiiarana's top scorer with 9 goals in Season 17, as well as bagging 9 in Season 19 where he was the VLeague's top foreign Striker at the grand old age of 42. He also had a talent for unearthing young players, bringing Malaino Mumamba and Antonis Siazzu through the club's ranks and into the Vilitan national team.
Playing at International Level
Playing for the Starblaydia Under-21s
</div> While making his name at Iskara Daii, Simeone quickly began to shine for the team Starblaydia sent to the 3rd Under-21 World Cup. Technically, this was Starblaydia's first international competition at any level, and when Starblaydia lost 4-2 to Europa Brittania in the opening Group match Simeone scored Starblaydia's first goal. The other was provided by Ricky Torino, then of cross-town rivals Jhanna United. In the three Group games and single Knockout game Starblaydia played in that tournament, Simeone scored three goals; the other goals coming against Kaze Progressa and Magnus Valerius.Starblaydia U21 side for U21WC3 Name Pos Age Goals Rodriguez Da Silva GK 19 Rastian Salaam LB 18 Duncan Jacob SW 18 Moses Brown CB 18 1 J.J. Stark RM 16 Olaf Vikerman (Captain) AM 19 1 Ki-Jana Carter DM 18 1 Brett Perriman LM 19 Ricky Torino SC 17 2 Simeone Di Bradini SC 18 3 Boomer Moore CF 18 1
Simeone, eighteen years old at the time, only had one opportunity to play for the Under-21s, as in those days the gap between each Championship was 4 years, as opposed to the two it is today.
Playing for Starblaydia
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Managing at International Level
Starblaydia Under-21s
His management of the Starblaydia Under-21 side proved hugely fruitful as he led them to two successive Finals in his first two attempts, earning a Championship and Runners-Up medal for the nation, catapulting Starblaydia to 'best team in the world' status at Under-21 Level.
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Starblaydia
SDB was the manager of Starblaydia's side for the second Liverpool England-hosted Four Nations Iniviational. After a shaky start, the team came through to win the Final against Lethislavania.
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The Legend
Having been selected for five different World Cups, Simeone Di Bradini was a fixture of World Cup Finals for twenty years, scoring five times in the world's premier Sporting Tournament. He also went to an Under-21 World Cup, two Cups of Harmony and five other Tournaments, including a Nine-Goal haul in AOCAF5, where Starblaydia were the defending Champions. His club career is almost unparalleled too, in both Player and Coach in Vilita and Starblaydia, arguably the two greatest leagues in the world. Subsequently became a World Cup Hall of Famer before being elected as the President of the World Cup Committee.
Not a bad little career for a kid from Iskara.
OOC Information
As he now no-longer competes in the World Cup, Simeone Di Bradini has left the strict 4-year cycle timestream of the World Cup and into the more fluid timescales of Nationstates. As such, whenever he ever appears in RPs outside of the World Cup, he will remain in a permanent nearly-forty state of being. He is both a Sporting- and Non-sporting-roleplayed Character.
SDB is also a personal avatar for the user behind Starblaydia.