Starblaydia national football team history

World Cup 15

Starblaydia first entered the World Cup Qualifiers for World Cup 15 in an attempt to travel to The Eagles Nest and Eauz. Led by Ryan Garry, Starblaydia were ranked 115th in the World thanks to their impressive debut a year earlier at the 3rd Under-21 World Cup. Their first Qualifying match ended in defeat away at the hands of regionmates Vilita, with Nikola Lazerevski scoring Starblaydia's first senior goal. These Qualifiers saw Starblaydia's perhaps most-impressive ever victory, defeating Dance 2 Revolution 5-1 in Starblaydia to record what would be the best-ever victory for many years. The first international hat-trick by a Starblaydia player came in this match as Lazerevski bagged three, with Stefan Haldorsson and Guylain N'Dumbu-Nsungu rounding out the 5-1 thrashing. A 3-2 victory over Vilita in the return leg and 3-1 over Svecia. Overall Starblaydia ended up with a 6-6-6 record, scoring 31 goals and conceeding 26 in their 18 matches.

Cup of Harmony 7

By finishing 7th out of 9 in their Qualifying Group, Starblaydia were invited to enter the Cup of Harmony. Simeone Di Bradini scored his first ever goals for the senior side as he bagged two of the three goals Starblaydia scored in all their six matches. Lazerevski also bagged one, but Starblaydia won two, drew one and lost three of their Group Stage matches in Krytenia and Melmond.

International Recreation Cup 1

Starblaydia's first non World Cup-related tournament was in Cockbill Street. With what some would consider now to be a historical 'dream team' striking partnership of Lazerevski and Di Bradini, Starblaydia scored precisely zero goals in five matches. It also included the first meeting with the soon-to-be very familiar NEWI Cefn Druids. It also provoked much dislike for Streetian-held tournaments. Starbladyia in IRC1:

The Lowland Clans - 0-2

NEWI Cefn Druids - 0-1

Rejistania - 0-1

Cockbill Street - 0-2

Vilita - 0-1

World Cup 16

The second attempt at Qualification for the World Cup came with a shot at getting to Rejistania and Brazillico for World Cup 16. Simeone Di Bradini bagged himself 6 goals in 10 games, though Starblaydia as a whole floundered, winning only two games, drawing five and losing three. The finished, unsurprisingly, behind Iansisle, Commerce Heights and Cockbill Street.

Cup of Harmony 8

Starblaydia were at somewhat of an all-time low at this point, as they only scored two goals in four games. J.J. Stark with a consolation in a 3-1 defeat to Turori and Nikola Lazerevski earning their only point of a Group Stage with a 1-1 draw against Kylaai.

AOCAF 2

Having just missed out on participating in the first Regional Tournament, Starblaydia went to Vilita and Ahmed Ol-wairain burst onto the international scene. The long tradition of unpronouncable Starblaydi striking combinations was continued with Guylain N'Dumbu-Nsungu and Christian Kabeya-Mbaya, though they only managed a goal each. Starblaydia fell in the Quarter-Finals to Crystilakere.

Eagle's Cup 3

Here, in The Eagles Nest, the highly-fruitful partnership of Simeone Di Bradini and Eomer Hall was first brought together. 26 and 22 respectively, the two strikers began a partnership at international level that would reach until World Cup 18. Stablaydia only won a single match, however, drawing two and losing three in the Group Stage, including a 4-0 thrashing by Vilita, Stablaydia's worst record to date. It was this match that sealed the departure of Jean-Paul Georges-Ringeaux as national manager.

World Cup 17

A fairly abysmal striker, Guylain N'Dumbu-Nsungu had been a relatively-successful manager of the Starblaydia Under-21s, winning the 3rd Place Playoff of the 5th Under-21 World Cup against Krytenia. Guylain's management technique started off with Starblaydia's largest-ever win, a record that continues to this day. 6-0 against Pure Evil. Simeone Di Bradini (2), Ceri Salisbury, Eomer Hall, J.J. Stark and Roberto Di Bradini scored the goals that got Guylain's senior management career off to a flyer. In an excellent qualifying performance, Simeone Di Bradini equalled Nikola Lazerevski's record of 11 goals in a World Cup campaign. Critics would point out that three of Di Bradini's came from a one-off extra Qualifying match against Tanah Burung and two in the World Cup itself, but Nikola had 18 Qualifying games to score his goals, while Simeone had just 14 to bag his. Overall, they come about about equal.

Though getting through to their first ever World Cup Finals, Starblaydia didn't start well as they lost 2-1 to Audioslavia and 1-0 to The Lowland Clans, both of whom were considered to be much better teams than Starblaydia at the time. Needing a 3-0 win over NEWI Cefn Druids on the final matchday, Simeone Di Bradini, Stefan Haldorsson and Ki-Jana Carter duly obliged with the goals, while Rodriguez Da Silva duly kept his clean sheet and Starblaydi progressed.

An 2-1 extra-time win over Europa Brittania with Michael Hawthorne scoring in the first ninety minutes and a Simeone Di Bradini winner sent Starblaydia into the last-eight. Unfortunately, Melmond, the only other team as lowly-ranked as 46th-in-the-world Starblaydia at number 42, smashed and grabbed a one-nil win over Starblaydia.