He has a Guinness record for playing the Football Manager game for 361 days and accumulating 416 seasons

If there is one thing that can be said about the Polish Paweł Siciński, it is that he likes soccer. And above all, managing a Football Manager team, the classic videogame that since 1992 allows you to be a virtual technical director of the biggest leagues in the world.

Paweł Siciński is making headlines these days thanks to the fact that he has been certified with a Guinness recordlike the person who held the longest Football Manager game in history, accumulating 361 days of play. He started the game in January 2018 and finished the game on May 18, 2434, that is, 416 years in game accelerated time (which does not run at the real rate, but instead reduces the duration of the days and weeks to be much more dynamic).

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In total, those 7,603 hours that Siciński dedicated to Football Manager gave him 341 league titles and 759 cupsa not insignificant number for a career as technical director of more than four centuries, in which he played 22,300 games, in which his teams scored 58,900 goals.

He thus surpassed the German Sepp Hedel, who until now had the record for the longest session, with 333 years played in the 2017 edition, and the Englishman Darren Bland, who had been in charge of Fiorentina for 154 seasons when he accidentally spilled liquid in his computer, the computer stopped working and the game was closed.

Pawel Sicinski holds a Guinness World Record for the longest Football Manager game ever recorded, with 361 days equaling 416 in-game seasons. (Guinness record/)

Siciński started out at the Swedish club Syrianska FC (from the fourth division of Swedish football) but moved to Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar Icelandic, where the squad that fought in soccer in that country for 310 years was the head. Siciński’s greatest pride is having played them in the Champions League, the Europa League and the Club World Cup, where he won 677 cups and victories. He managed to have a stadium for 140,000 people, quite an achievement considering that Reykjavik, the city where Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar plays, has 122,000 inhabitants.

“I like to play in lesser-known leagues, and I’ve followed the Icelandic one since I was a kid. Achieving success with an unknown team brings me a lot of satisfaction,” Siciński told Guinness, while clarifying that in 2020 he began studying to be a technical coach at UEFA courses where he should be able to put more than 400 years into practice. of experience he has directing virtual football teams.

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Source: Elcomercio