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Today heralds a new era for football management as Everton Football
Club becomes the first club to officially recruit the services of a
computer game and its developers as part of their back room team.
In a football and gaming first Everton FC has signed an exclusive deal
with Sports Interactive, developers of the football management
videogame Football Manager, to give manager David Moyes and his coaches
unrivalled access to its database of over 370,000 players and staff.
Everton will be able to instantly scan 20,000 active teams in more than
50 countries worldwide with immediate access to the largest scouting
network in football with over 1,000 scouts from around the globe.
The unique database has made Football Manager the most popular football
management simulation in gaming and will help Everton FC spot the best
young talent from around the world. In the past, Football Manager has
accurately identified Wayne Rooney’s potential talent when he was just
fifteen and has been the first to predict other future stars including
Lionel Messi, Ashley Young and Jose Baxter.
The game’s original creators Paul and Oliver Collyer have been
approached by clubs wanting to sign the game in the past, but this is
the first time they have put pen to paper to hand over the game’s
database and bring virtual football management into the real world.
Paul Collyer comments:
“The game’s database is a valuable resource with the most extensive
scouting network in football so Everton FC is making a top signing. I
am personally delighted with today’s announcement as I’m a Toffees fan.
Standing on the pitch with my signing on shirt is as close to my
boyhood dream of playing at Goodison Park as I will ever get.”
Studio Director Miles Jacobson adds:
“We’ve known for a while that teams use the game to research certain
players, whether to buy or to check out the opposition, but this formal
recognition by a premiership team is fantastic and we are sure it will
prove a fruitful one for the Everton FC.”
Football Manager has been fully updated for the new 2008/09 football
season with all the latest league, club and player data giving armchair
managers everywhere the most up to date stats to manage their teams
with the most realistic management experience available.
wtf
oook
i wanna buy that game
fifa cover page like nicer lei
wah.
Now it's not ridiculous to judge how good a real life player is in football manager ![]()
cherno samba was superb in cm many yrs ago. ![]()
why don't they just buy the few copies of the game and hand it out to their scouts, ask them go home play instead of jetting around watching matches :S
lol. is it out already? i mean the p version. i wanna buy.
what do you mean by the p version?
Originally posted by SexyChin:what do you mean by the p version?
p for premium version la. If not, you think pirated ar?