Interview with zio_pey manager Virtus Bologna

You've got the most titled team in the whole game - reached already everything that's possible with a club. 30 trophies, gosh... where do you store them? :D Please admit you got some kind of codes from the Crew :D

You aren't the only one who think this, and yes, i was a GM for 2 years so probably I stole something :D

You have never ever demoted from Lega A and only twice ended up without a trophy in the league. Gee, you're playing this game at least for 19 seasons! How do you manage to stick in the game for such a long time? How do you manage your transfers?

Consider that when I arrived 4th is only because I wanted to play in CWC :D

I don't think that there is a "secret", I started to play this game with some friends and thank to it I'm continuing to know lot of people and this is the main reason why I'm still playing. I was lucky with some pulls in past season (not now, I have fantastic academy from long time without results), and probably I'm quite good in buy/sell players. Don't know exactly, is difficult to stay at high level for so long time, but this is my main goal every season, I don't need to win anymore but at least to arrive in first 4-5 positions :)

On the other hand, you aren't doing that great in the international cups - "only" 2 CCWC and 1 CCL titles in your cabinet ;) I guess it's pretty tough to compete in 3 different tournaments at the same time, isn't it? What do you think about the recent idea of getting rid of fatigue&exp in the international cups?

In International Cups I was quite unlucky, for two times I lost in final against the "old allstar players teams", teams who bought every old players in the market, won everything for 1-2 seasons and then disappeared. Defeat those teams was quite impossible. In last seasons if I wanted to remain at high level I needed to use International Cups to exp my young players and this is the main reason for my poor results. About the idea I red in the forum I think that the calendar now is impossible, we play too much games in short period of time so if we really want to have a Champions Cup we need to make games without fatigue, injuries and experience. I don't find any other solution.

Italian national teams are doing pretty well. You personally had been a NT Coach already twice, but have never won a WC title. In fact that's the only thing missing for you as a coach :D So, what are your plans regarding this matter?

Yes, I was national coach and I lost in final against Belgium, really good team in the first period of the game. For the next election I'm seriously thinking to candidate :))

What do you think about other club teams in the Charazay world? Are there any teams better than yours?

My team is not so good now, was much competitive last season because I had the goal to win CWC, but now I cut the salaries and prefer to gain money with sponsors. I'm first in the league with surprise, I'm quite confident to remain in first positions till the end. I have lot of friends in the game that are fantastic, like Ianton , Boki and Oscar, Koseze is much better than me for example :)

Also Free Minds Core in my league is stronger, but manager is noob :D

Would you name yourself the best manager in CBM? If not, who's the best?

No, I'm not the best manager in CBM, even if the results tell this. Is very difficult to answer at your question because probably there are thousands of good managers that play in foreign league and in low series that I don't know.

In Italy Dogsitter is amazing coach :)

My final answer anyway is Oscar, even if Maca is a genious :D

The new rookie promoting system has been a bit controversial. Some claimed there's going to be a lack of mid-class players in some time since such players aren't promoted from the Academy. What's you opinion about it? Do you promote those mid-class players?

There are too few 15yrs players in this way on the market, people wait only for the champion, and refuse middle players. And I don't like absolutely the 17-18yrs pulls with no experience, hasn't sense.

I dream the young team like Hattrick :)

What keeps you so long in the game? I'm not really sure if Italian managers aren't awaiting the day you log out and decide not to log in anymore :D

In Italian forum lot of times we spoke about my retiring day, but now I don't see it :D

I made some fantastic friends, someone that I saw lot of times in real life, so I'm not even thinking to leave the game, sometime the forum is better than a family. For example next saturday we will have a charazay meeting in Verona. Matches, food, Alchol. No girls but this is normal ahahah :D

There's the senior WC ahead of us. Is Italy capable to hold off the oposition?

I don't think that this National Team is the best in the world, surely we can win against every team but we are quite young. We will see how many old players we need in the final part of the World Cup.

I'm really curios to see if Spain finally will win something :)

What do you think about the recent changes in Charazay and which one of them do you like the most?

In theory I was happy because not only tall players could score, but now if I look at the matches I don't think that this change is so rilevant....sure thing is that experience is less important and I notice that lot of users are happy, expecially who don't play International Cups :D

Is there anything in the game that should be taken care of by the Crew, according to you? What needs to be changed?

Pulls, more balanced engine, but expecially something to promote the game, we need absolutely more users.

Now something strictly about you :) What's your name, how old are you, where do you live?

My name is Luca, I'm 35 and I live in Bologna, my Charazay name team exist and is my favourite team in real :)

Bologna is called "basket city" in Italy because we had two teams in the major league.

A bunch of quick Qs now :) Wine or beer? Ferrari or BMW? Mountains or the sea? Inter or Milan?

Ahahaahah, my answers: Mohito!!! Absolutely!!! BMW, I can reach this dream, Ferrari is impossible. Sea for fun, mountain for the relax. Bologna! Forever! I hate Milan and Inter (and Juve) :D

Are you interested in anything else than basketball?

- Girls?? :D

I really like football, tennis, but basket is the most exciting sport to see.

How did you get to know about CBM?

I played Hattrick and in a Hattrick Irc Channel called "Azzurra" I knew some guys who introduce me in this game.....damn them! :D

What's the secret behind your nick and teamname? What's their origin, what do they mean?

I answered you before that my team name is the real name of the most famous team in my city :)

My nick is long story, but now lot of people called me "zio" also in real. Zio is "uncle" in english :D

Thanks for the interview.

Thanks for your interview, and nice Charazay to everyone. And go Italy!!