Alola United

## Introduction

Alola United Football Club (Alola United for short) is a professional football club located in Īkī, Alola, Pokémon Islands. It was founded in 1945 due to a merger with two pre-existing clubs in the downtown Īkī area. They are historically the best club in Alola, as they are also the oldest club in Alola due to the fact that it's roots call back to 1900. Their logo as of the 2023/24 season shows the clubs colors of red and black, and on top a white triangle with a green letter A, as seen in the flag of Alola itself.

## Pre-Merger (1900-1945)

FK Alolah is the first of the 2 clubs that merged. Founded in March, 1900, Fūtbāl Klūbā Alolāh was a club that was more aimed to the Mixhel and Yuzhjugutian population of Īkī and Alola in general. FK Alolah wore red shirts, which is why one of Alola United's colors are red. Meanwhile in the port, some Englishmen decided to create a club for the more international community in Alola, and unite some of the non Mixopolan community, so they formed United Football Club of Alola or United FC for short. They became famous for wearing black shirts to represent coal, which is why Alola United wears black stripes with red. Both FK Alolah and United FC had a rivalry at first, but one team they both hated the most was founded in the same year but in a different region, I'm of coarse talking about SC Hoenn, the rivalry between SC Hoenn and the Alola clubs would build the foundations for "the border derby" which is still going today after about 123 years. But when WWII broke out in 1939, both Alolan clubs were in unity of the tragedy that was happening in mainland Europe, which led up to the summer of 1945, when Lubos Perun of FK Alolah, and William Stone of United FC both signed a paper and showed a red FK Alolah jersey, but then William Stone put on some duct tape on the jersey and painted them black before proclaiming "the merging of the two clubs to create a true team for Alola," and thus Alola United Football Club was properly founded.

## Pre-Pokémon Islands (1945-1992)

As always, Alola United was the dominant team in the Alolan league winning it in all but two seasons, their best player at this time was center-forward Archer Dixon who captained the side during their first golden age, but in 1952, Alola was occupied by the USSR, and later was integrated into the People's Republic of Mixopolis in 1954. Thankfully, for a while at least, they were still the best team in Alola, and even went to the MPR 1st league in a few occasions, but in 1969, they finally had competition, as this was the year in which Klūb Raboczīkh Alolāh or KR Alola for short was founded, and used the same colors, but inverted the order, wearing black with red stripes representing Anarcho-communism, as the founder of the club's idol was Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno, so much so that one of KR Alola's nicknames was an insult from Alola United, as they called KR Alola fans "Makhnovshchina" which is the militia in which Nestor Makhno led. Thus, Alola United became Alola's 2nd team in the eyes of the MPR, which of coarse led to what's called the curse of the Yuzhjugut's, in which much of the older teams from the Pokémon Islands were neglected in favor of teams who fit the MPR's political agenda, which led to mass unrest between the teams.

## The Pokémon Islands Championship (1992-2020)

In 1992 the Pokémon Islands declared independence from the MPR, and thus Alola United was officially invited to the first season of the Pokémon Islands Championship. In their first few seasons however, things were difficult, so much so, that in the 1996/97 season, Alola United finished in mid-table, meanwhile KR Alola won the league, this trend continued, as Alola United were usually never in the title race, even being in a relegation fight a few times, especially in the 2006/07 season, where they survived for another season by only 1 point. This continued until 2018 when they hired a new head coach in Jay "Mewtwo" Goede, a Pokémon Islands legend, as he set up a formidable and young team, they won the cup that season, and in the 2019/20 season, the last season of the Pokémon Islands Championship, they won the league, cup and super cup, thus winning the treble.

## Present Day

Today, Alola United has returned to their status as the top team in Alola. They have a new grand stadium in the Tesla Arena, and have established players Like Abomasnow, Messi, Suarez, and Oblak. Alola United has never been stronger, and it doesn't look like it's gonna stop!

## Notable Players

Abomasnow (Center-Back, 2019 -)

Lūkās Pavlanskī (Right-Midfielder, 2018 -)