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Title:   SCORE!

Subtitle:  Online Soccer Manager (OSM) From the Attic to the Arena

Author:  by Jeroen Derwort

Genre:     Non-Fiction/Sports/Computers

Format: eBook and Soft Cover

Publisher: Derwort Media

Length:   187 pages

Publication Date: December, 2025

Synopsis:

One attic. One idea. A hundred million players.

Jeroen Derwort was just a teenager when he started coding Online Soccer Manager (OSM) from his bedroom in The Netherlands. His dream? To let football fans experience the thrill of managing their favorite club.

He didn’t know he was building a global empire.

SCORE! takes you behind the scenes of a startup that exploded from a hobby project into a tech giant with fifty employees and millions of obsessed users worldwide. It is a candid, unfiltered account of the chaos behind the success: the high-stakes encounters with corporate giants, the fight against digital hooligans, and the boardroom clashes with the world’s biggest football clubs.

But this is more than a business book. It is the personal journey of a shy nerd who had to learn to lead, negotiate, and survive in the Champions League of the gaming industry.

From a lonely attic to the “Top 100 Self-Made Millionaires” list—this is the ultimate playbook for anyone who dares to dream big.