You thought you were a fan of Football Manager, this game that lets you slip into the shoes of a coach? You will never be as much as Pawel Sicinski. This Pole broke the record for the longest game in the 2018 edition, approved by Guinness World Records by stopping in May 2434. That is a long career of 460 seasons, 22,300 matches played and 1,258 trophies won. His teams have scored 58,900 goals.
The old record belonged to Sepp Hedel with a coaching career spanning 333 seasons.
OGC Nice in the European gratin
After breaking the record, Pawel Sicinski did not stop there and continued his adventure with the Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała club, which he led from the Polish 2nd division to victory in the Champions League in the 2480s.
Do you wonder what the gratin of Europe looked like in those years? We find of course Manchester City, Real Madrid, Chelsea, but also the English club of Swindon, finalist of the C1 in 2493, that of Millwall, double winner in 75 and 78, but also… the OGC Nice, winner in 77 and double finalist in 71 and 81.
9000 hours of play
Above all, the record holder only took 260 days off from the game. For the uninitiated, Football Manager is a day-to-day game of a coaching career, and it is possible to take vacation to let the software run the game for a while. It is a frequent practice of players to speed up the tempo a little.
In this context, 260 days seems very little for a 460-year-long career. And his game statistics attest to it: to reach the year 2485 in the game, Sicinski played 9000 hours of Football Manager, or 375 full days!