________) _____ ________) _____ (, / (, / (, / (, / | /___, / /___, /---| ) / ___/__ ) / ) / |_ (_/ (__ / (_/ (_/ _ __ __ ___ ' ) / ) / ) / ,--' / / / / /__ /___ (__ / (__ / ____) ___________________ | FIFA 2005 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Author : RenoV Platform : Microsoft Xbox Version : Final Last Updated : 4/02/05 E-Mail : reno812[at]intelnett[dot]com ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ** IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ ** The principal objective of this guide was to provide a general overview of the Career mode in FIFA 2005 and how to use every option in there. As far as I can tell, this guide fulfills that purpose very well. So, that means that I'm no longer making any kind of updates to this guide or adding any more contributions. If you need any further help with this game or something that wasn't covered within this guide, I suggest you to look for it at the FIFA's boards all over the web, specially the GameFAQs.com ones, since they are really easy to use and there are always up and running, not to mention that there are always a couple of nice guys posting frequently and I'm confident that you will get all the help you need there. And yes, AGAIN, I'm no longing answering any questions for this game or making another update, so please take notice of this! ___________________ | DISCLAIMER | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This document is copyrighted (c) 2005 to Saul Delgado. This FAQ/Walkthrough is exclusively for personal and private use. It CANNOT be reproduced, modified, edited, published or used for any promotional or commercial purposes. FIFA 2005 (c) EA SPORTS, 2004. All rights reserved. I'm not in any way affiliated to EA SPORTS or any companies that were involved with this game. For the most updated version of this guide, always look for it in GameFAQs.com, which is the first one I send the newest version in. This guide can be found currently at this sites, which are the only ones with my explicit permission: www.gamefaqs.com www.ign.com www.neoseeker.com www.supercheats.com www.gameshideout.proboards30.com Since I won't be updating this guide anymore, I won't graint permission to any other site, since I won't even update this section again, so don't even bother! ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | CONTENTS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * Version history * Introduction * Email policy * Contributions * Frequently Asqued Questions (FAQ) * Walkthrough - Starting a career - Picking a team - New team... - Job security - The season - The Squad - Transfer market - Career example * Final words ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | VERSION HISTORY | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Final It took about three months from the first version to get to this point, but I think it really worth it. I'm satisfied with the result. I didn't thought that I would actually get all the support I got from this, and I really apreciate all those nice persons that drop me a line. Hope to see you in my next FIFA series FAQs!!! v1.5 3/22/05 This time it's really an update! Plenty of work done on the career example section, also more contributions and another site added to the list! v1.42 3/13/05 It's been a while since the last update. It was a really hard time at school, so I had no time at all to work on the guide. With this update I'm just adding the ASCII work at the beginning (I always thought that any good guide needs a nice ASCII work!). Some more colaborations added too. v1.41 2/26/05 A new site with permission to host this guide has been added. Also added some colaborations. No career example update :-( v1.4 2/20/05 More contributions added and continued the career example as well. v1.3 2/05/05 Added some contributions and continued the Career example (finished the first season and just started the second). v1.2 1/30/05 The FAQ section has been added. Also done a lot in the Career example. v1.11 1/29/05 Just had this guide added to another site, so that means that the list of sites with permission to host this guide has to be updated. I'm longing for another update next week though. v1.1 1/28/05 New sections added. Also started the "Career example" section, which isn't finished yet, but will be very soon... v1.01 1/23/05 Still basics, just updated the sites where currently you can find this guide. v1.0 1/15/05 First version, basics of career mode covered here. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | INTRODUCTION | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ The FIFA SOCCER 2005 or FIFA FOOTBALL 2005, whatever you want to name it, is the newest adding to the FIFA series that started in the mid 90s. It has many additions from the FIFA 2004, like the First Touch Control, or the improved Off the Ball Control. But definitely, what we are interested here is in the Career mode, which actually started in the FIFA 2004. Yeah, in FIFA 2002 you could play the clasifying round to the World Cup and stuff like that, but it wasn't really a Career mode, since you wasn't able to play the World Cup and won it all, at least not without buying the EA SPORTS release "Korea/Japan World Cup" (yeah, nasty marketing trick!), but as I said, it wasn't really a decent Career mode. The FIFA 2003 include something that was called "World Tour" or whatever it was named, and you had to pick any team and start a very annoying cruise through the world and getting almost nothing for beating it (just a simple stadium!). Lately, the FIFA 2004 include something that was finally a Career mode. You was asked to pick a team and make a 5 year career with this team and win it all. It was a good idea and I really enjoyed, well, at least until I beat it and realized that it was far from being acctually a truly Career mode, since you didn't get anything for beating it! Come on, EA needs to make something about this! Finally, we get to FIFA 2005, which Career mode was really improved and everything looked better and it was less annoying than last year one. But, again, there was almost nothing for beating it! Yeah, I know that you get 8,000 points for beating it, but hey, let's be honest, you can do nothing with that! It was a nice idea to be able to switch teams every time you want, but I think that many things are needed to make this the best game possible, now that there are really good competitors out there, making EA to worry... I'm talking about Winning Eleven 8 of course, which I own since about a week or so, and my first impressions is that it has many things FIFA doesn't, but even though I'm not starting the discussion of which one is better, just let me say that FIFA still has the lead, but hear this very well, NOT FOR TOO LONG! And well, last FIFA series game, which I own since a week too, the 2005 official UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE is EA's newest game to date, and I just want to add that for those who are starting to play it, look for my FAQ for it shortly! Thanks for reading! ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | EMAIL POLICY | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I don't see the point of giving a "policy" since there's nothing I'm adding to this guide, but hey, who knows if it may be useful to be in touch for some reason, so I'm still providing my email for whatever's coming to your mind! reno812[at]intelnett[dot]com (No SPAM please, or your email will be permanently blocked and you will receive all your trash back) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | CONTRIBUTIONS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I've been starting to receive some feedback and questions, so I figured out that now the guide is pretty much complete and this section will be focused to give the credit to the guys that have helped me with something or just asked for help. If I missed someone please let me know! (This goes in the order I got the emails from them) T Kelley Huang Qiliang Louis Brenton Julian Rios GLast Aniket Shinde Craig Piersma David (?) Wahaz (?) XEDGEFREAKX (?) Aaron Bigone2588(?) Matt Sommers Manolo Vasquez Juan Arce Adam Alfonso Guzman Jose Manuel Perez Benjamin Schauer ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | FAQ | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Well, I'm going to answer the most common questions about the career mode and the game in general, this way you could save some time instead of being looking in the entire guide. Q/ Do you have a spanish version of your guide? A/ Even though I really apreciate to all those who have been asking this for a while, I'm afraid that it is just not possible. I'm not planning writting a translation of this guide, and listen to me, I'm NOT allowing anyone to do it for me. Anyway, GameFAQs wouldn't accept an In-Depth FAQ in another language different from english, so I'm not interested on posting a FAQ that is not featured at GameFAQs first. Q/ Is the FIFA 2005 career mode like the FIFA 2004 career mode? A/ No. Even though the basic goal is still the same (become the most succesfull manager of the world), many things change. It's not a 5-year career, now it's a 15-year career! And you are not stucked with the same team all that time, you can sign with as many teams you want. Q/ Why I can't get a job with a five-star team? A/ You can't start your manager career with a five-star team. You must start building your reputation and a few years later you will be able to manage the team you want. If you want a specific team, put it as your favorite team and sooner you will have an offer from them. Q/ What's the job security? Do I get fired if it goes low? A/ Yeah, you are right. The Job Security meter tells you if you are doing well or if you are about to be fired. Louis Brenton tells us what happens when you get fired: "Hey, I was just reading your walkthrough, and you said you didn't know what happened if your job security gets low. If you get all the way to zero, you get fired immediately, and the game cycles through the rest of the season. It then begins the second year of your career, and you pick another team, much like before". Q/ Why I can't sign X player? A/ You must know that a player won't sign with you in specific conditions. Specially if we are talking about world-class players and you are not in a very respectable team. Read the Transfer Market section for a more detailed explanation about this and other facts that makes some players don't want to sign with your team. Q/ Do I have a budget every year to spend in transfers? A/ No. This year things have changed. Now you don't get a budget every year to spend in transfers. Now you EARN your budget. Every game you win will get you some points (not cash, points). When you have enough points you can start to trade players (at the transfer windows of course) Q/ What are the upgrade points and how do I use them? A/ As manager, you have a staff that will help you with many tasks that you can't do on your own. Depending on your results, your board of directors will give you some upgrade points (after every match) and you have to decide which areas will you improve with them. Read the walkthrough for more detailed information about this. Q/ How many matches do I have to play to finish the Career mode? A/ There's not a specific number. It depends on the leagues you play. Some leagues have more matches per season than others. An average number of matches would be around 900 to 1000+, so it's up to you if you play them all or simulate some. T Kelly asks the next question: Q/ What is the significance of "form" rating? I guess that the higher the number, the better, but so what? What does it mean? Is it how close a player up to his potential? I just don't get it. A/ Ok, the thing is that as you said, the higher, the better, but what we want to know is what is and what does it mean. From my very own gaming experience with FIFA 2005 (this means that I may be wrong) I've noticed that a player that plays several matches (and do things well) has a much better form rating than a player that is in the bench. But why? Here I can just figure out and guess a little. If you are a professional player, if you get to play important matches and keep a REGULAR activity in the team, you will be in good form. If you are a bench player, and just play a couple of minutes a week, obviously you won't be in form. That's why some players with 7+ form rate and below 90% fitness do better than 5- form rate players and 99% fitness. If a player is 8+ form rate, his performance will be very good (according to his skill). Now, keep in mind that low-skilled players usually won't get more than 6 or 7 form rating. What's the highest form rate I've reached? 9.1 with Tierry Henry. Huang Qiliang asks the next question: Q/ I was wondering if you know there is any way to get back retired players. After a player retire, does he a) reappear at a later stage in the game as a younger version of himself b) reappear at a later stage in the game as another name c) not appear at all This is a pity because by the time I reached Manchester United there was no more Roy Keane or Paul Scholes. A/ I had the same question when I was around 2011 in my career. What happens when a player is too old? It was a mistery to me. I looked at that year for old players, and found that they were not anymore in their teams, but surprisingly I found that new players with the same number and pretty equal skills took the places of the retired players! They are not younger versions of the retired players, they don't have the names of them, they don't look like them. They are just random players the game creates, but they perform as the retired players do, but definitely they are not the same retired players. The only question I still have is at what age a player gets retired in the game? (I know that it's about 35 or so, but I just don't know if it's a standard age for every player to retire or depends on their skills...) Next is the translation from spanish of the email I got from Glast: "I read your FAQ, and I think it's very well explained. I just think that it would be good if you comment that you can't sell or buy a player if his team has only 18 field players. If you are feeling comfortable with that player and you want to take him with you, make sure you have more than 18 players." Huang Qiliang asks again something about retired players: Q/ In career mode, will a young player of age 18 or so increase his stats in the years to come? Or they are fixed? A/ Don't worry, this players increase their stats with the years. Of course, don't expect that in one or two years you will have back the same 'crack' that just get retired, but with the time they increase their stats (in a very impressive way I must say). From my very own experience, I got retired a player with 95 skill. And I got this 63 skilled player. The difference was too much, but I decided to go on with this player, and by the end of his first year he was 70! Aniket Shinde asks the next question: Q/ How do I win the playoff cups? I played an entire season in the Italian Serie B with Genova, and in the Italian Serie A with Inter, but still I don't get the playoff Championship. Also tell me how do I get the EFA Trophy. A/ First. You just found a glitch that I think everybody has experienced with this game. We hope that EA Sports noticed it and FIFA 2006 won't come with this kind of mistakes! No matter what country you win the playoffs, it just seems that the game never ever will give you the credit for it (just read the career example below, it happened even in the making of this FAQ!). Second. The EFA Cup is a tournament that is played by teams ranked from 4th to 6th in their respective leagues (in Europe of course). I'm not quite sure if it's the same case for every country (having three teams in Champions League and three in EFA Cup), but that's what I can say right now. If I'm wrong, please let me know! Craig Priesma has something to say about retired players and things that should be fixed for FIFA 2006: "I just read through your FIFA 2005 online guide. Thanks for putting it together. Last night I completed my second year in career mode and managed to land a contract with ManU. I played a couple games before I noticed there was no Roy Keane! It was driving me nuts. There was some 17 year old kid on the roster named Andrew Kean, but no Roy Keane. It never dawned on me -- until I read your guide -- that the game would actually retire players. The real Roy Keane recently refused to set a retirement date, so EA Sports may need to make some adjustments for the 2006 version. :)" David asks the next question: Q/ I wanted to know how can you change the language in FIFA 2005? In spanish the game sounds much better. A/ Well David, as far as I know the only way you can change to spanish the language of FIFA 2005 is buying the spanish version! At least that there's another version I don't know, my FIFA 2005 disc has only the english language with it. I know that it would be possible to include two languages (since the discs can hold up to around 9GB of space), but for some reason EA Sports didn't think it was a good idea. My personal opinion about the spanish version, I don't think it's better than the english, I'm still not convinced that the commentators are better than the english version (they have less than half of the names in the game if we compare with the english version!). Anyway, if someone has something to add here, I'll post it for sure. Also Manolo Vasquez adds something here: "The game can be heard in spanish if you have the ps2 or xbox properly configured to spanish. If it's set to english, the console system, not the game, all menus will be in english. This works for the american version, not sure about the european version". Glast also makes this question: Q/ Is there a way to reach 100% in job security? I've done two perfect seasons (not even a lost or draw game) in world class and I've never been beyond 99%. A/ No, there's no way to reach 100%. 99% is the highest rate you will ever have. XEDGEFREAKX makes this question: Q/ In career, when you play it and get stars can you coach an International team later on? A/ No, it's exclusively for club teams. But now that I think about it, it sounds like a great idea for FIFA 2006 career don't you think? Glast has a very valuable adding for those who wants to play in World Class: "The formation that makes easy play in world class (according to me) is 5 defenders, 3 midfielders and 2 strikers. In tactics, contention in defence, wing attacks, and offensive mentality. Try not to break the defence, if you run with a defender, don't take him out of the box (better use a mid) and you're done. Keep in mind that if the cpu has a chance, it will score, so keep focused with your defence, and don't get nervous". Aaron makes the next questions: Q/ When you get to level 10 for finance coach, can your transfer budget ever increase again? When you get to level 10 for striker coach, and you then buy a new striker can get that srtikers's ability ever increase? A/ About the first one, not very sure. I haven't noticed that (actually I never thought about that). All I can say about reaching level 10 on finance is that you gain the ability to see the stats of the player you are buying, something you can't do before you reach level 10. Second. Yes, they can increase their stats. It has to do a lot with the players' age of course. Don't expect to have a 33 year old striker increasing his stats, that would be silly! If you got a player retired or you buy a player that is the substitute of a retired one, he will increase his stats until he reach the skills the retired player has. Juan Arce makes the next questions: Q/ How do I get to play the Americas Club Championship? I just finished playing the Mexican Apertura and Clausura with America, but the thing is that so far I haven't got the invitation to play the cup. Is there other way to enter this cup? And the other question is, can I play the career mode with a team that is in the "Rest of the world" like Boca Juniors? A/ To play the Americas Club Championship, you can get there by using some mexican teams, but it's not a very certain way to get in. Try playing the brazilian league, you sure will be able to play it. Regarding the other question, you can't make a career using a team that is in the "Rest of the world". Why? Because career mode is about winning leagues and obviously "Rest of the world" is not a league, so the only way to play a league is to choose a team that has a league in the game. Sorry, maybe next year we'll have the AFA (Argentina's league) in the game (EA Sports MUST have it, specially now that Winning Eleven 8 is knocking hard on gamers' doors). Benjamin Schauer did the next comment about the Career mode in FIFA 2005: "If you would like to manage a specific team, then first select the region. If your team does not show up, then press triangle to go back and select the region again. You can keep doing this until your team shows up. The quality of the teams does not change much but if you can choose Chelsea and are trying to get Man U, this works quite well. Obviously Man U quality teams will not come up until at least your second year, but this will speed up the search process." Any question you still may have, look the answer for it at the GameFAQs board for FIFA 2005, I'm sure you will find there the answer! ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | WALKTHROUGH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ok, many people may think that starting a 15 season journey through the world football is just ridiculous. It's not an easy journey by the way, it takes many time, specially if you consider that a single season takes about 60 to 70 games, it makes about 1000 games! Beating this mode will give you 8000 points to spend in the FIFA Store. Anyway, if you just read those numbers and think that you want to enter this journey, then keep reading. For practical purposes, I'm going to divide this into several sub-sections, so I can keep some order around here... ___________________ | STARTING A CAREER | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ So you thought that you could be a good manager huh? That's fine, you'll find out soon that it's not that easy. There are more things that makes a good manager than just winning games and scoring many goals. First thing you have to do before you start your Career is to choose a file name. It can hold up to a maximum of 7 characters (alphanumerical). This is not your manager name, it's just the name of the file in the Xbox hard disk (or in your memory card, if you have the PS2 or GC versions). After you create the file name for your Career, you enter the Create a Manager screen. Here you have three things to do. First one, choose a pic that is supposed to be you... yeah, I know, none of this guys looks like Brad Pitt or something like, but you have to choose one. Second, you have to write the first name. Be creative or just put your real life name. And third, the surname. Again, put whatever you want. All above was just general info on your manager profile. Now comes what we really are interested in here. We have to pick our very first team. I know that many of you want to be signed by Manchester United or Real Madrid as our first job, but trust me, that's not going to happen, at least not at this time. It just happens that since you are a new manager, the job offers aren't as good as you thought they would be, but you have to start somewhere, so it's your call. The football world is divided into five regions. You have to choose in which region you want to start working. ___________________ | PICKING A TEAM | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | REGION 1 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * FA Premier League * Football League Champ * Football League One * Football League Two * Scottish Premier ___________________ | REGION 2 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * MLS * K-League * Brazilian League * Mexican League ___________________ | REGION 3 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * Spanish Primera * Spanish Segunda * Italian Serie A * Italian Serie B * Portuguese SuperLiga ___________________ | REGION 4 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * German Bundesliga 1 * German Bundesliga 2 * French Division 1 * French Division 2 * Dutch Eredvisie ___________________ | REGION 5 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ * Belgian League * Swedish Allsvenskan * Norwegian Tippeligaen * Austrian Bundesliga * Danish Superligaen * Swiss Axpo Superleague I'm not suggesting any region or any team. It's up to you which one you're going to choose. Just let me give you a free advice. Don't get disappointed because of the teams that you'll see the first time you sign a contract. Usually they will suck. Keep in mind that there are 15 seasons! so what this is all about is that you are supposed to spend at least one season in every region. I know that what you want is to get in control of any of the top five teams in the world, but I'm sure that the intention of creating such large Career mode was to don't get bored with the same team through a certain number of seasons (like in FIFA 2004). Remember that if you choose to use the same team for several seasons, you won't get one of the goals of the Career mode, which is unlock the Trophy Room in the "My FIFA 2005" option. Each cup you win will be inmediatly unlocked in the Trophy Room. So it's up to you where to begin... ___________________ | NEW TEAM... | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ok, so you have choosed a team and everybody seems to be happy about that. You can see that by reading the newspaper of your team's city. Yeah, there is the picture you picked before, so I hope that by now you're not regreting having picked the wrong dude picture! But not everything is peaches and cream, you have a board to please and they inmediatly inform you of what they expect from you. It varies depending on the team you picked. If you picked a lower division team, like say a Football League Two team in England, your goal will be finish the season in the top three of the table. Or if you picked a better team, like an Italian Serie A team, your goal will be to win the league and win the EFA Cup. After you read the board expectations for you in the season, you'll be introduced to your staff. Yeah, you won't be alone in this journey, there are eight dudes that will make your manager task easier (or harder). Each member of your staff has a 100 point system that needs to be filled. Every time you fill those points, you will advance one level, until you reach the level 10 (it's not that easy too). At the beginning you will be given with 100 points to share between these eight categories. I suggest you to don't give them all to one category. My advice is that you share them equally between them all. This way you will have a well ballanced staff. The points to fill this categories are awarded by your results. The better your results are, the more points you get. You will get some points for winning a regular league game. Winning a cup game will get you some more points. If you draw you won't get many points. And if you lose you won't get any, so this is all about results. Your staff is formed by: ___________________ | STRIKER COACH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ By giving points to this member of your staff your strikers will improve their skills. General overall of all of your strikers will raise after every level you reach here. ___________________ | MIDFIELDER COACH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ By giving points to this member of your staff your midfielders will improve their skills. General overall of all of your strikers will raise after every level you reach here. ___________________ | DEFENCE COACH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ By giving points to this member of your staff your defenders will improve their skills. General overall of all of your defenders will raise after every level you reach here. ___________________ | GOALKEEPER COACH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ By giving points to this member of your staff your goalkeepers will improve their skills. General overal of all of your goalkeepers will raise after every level you reach here. ___________________ | FITNESS COACH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This member of your staff is responsible for the recuperation after games of your players. If you don't give this category enough points, you'll notice that your players will be tired after games and they won't be ready for important matches. Be aware of that. ___________________ | MEDICAL STAFF | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This dude is the responsible for the injured players. The more points this category has, the better time of recovery your players will have. If you forget this category, every time a player gets injured you will have a bad time waiting for him to get recovered. ___________________ | FINANCE DEPT. | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ The higher level you reach here will mean that you will have a better chance to do well in the transfer market. ___________________ | SCOUTING STAFF | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ If you don't manage to reach a decent level here, you will have problems with your players morale. If your level is low, the communication between you and your players will be a serious problem. If your level is not that bad, your players will be happy and that means that they will do better in the field. ___________________ | JOB SECURITY | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Just as in real life, if your results are good, you will have your board happy and you will be sure that you won't lose your job. But if things are going bad... you can figure out what's going to happen. When you just sign with a new team, usually you job security will be around 40% - 50%. The only way to improve that is by your own results, so there's no need to long explanations about this. It's obvious that if you are around 90+% you don't need to worry. Now, I'm not sure about what happens below 40%, since I've never been below that. I know that eventually the board will get rid of you and you will lose your job, but it is still a mistery for me what happens after you get fired. Good advice is to just keep winning... ___________________ | THE SEASON | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Well, now that we have done all the signing-a-team job, we have to start the main goal in the game, which is of course, become the greatest manager ever. At the main menu (which is called "Career central" in the game) you have the next options: ___________________ | PLAY NEXT MATCH | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I think I don't need to explain too much here. When you are ready to face the next game, hit this option and you will see your squad and choose the kit your team is going to wear and you'll enter the next game... not a big deal really. ___________________ |SIMULATE NEXT MATCH| ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ If you decided that your team is in good shape and your previous results are good enough, you can use this option. This saves time when you are already the league champion and still have to play many matches. It's not like the match simulation in other games. You will be informed of what's going on in the match, and if your team isn't doing well, you can enter and save the match. ___________________ | SQUAD | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Ok, this is where we have to put most of our attention. Our success or failure will be decided by the way we manage our team. If we want to do well in a game, we have to come here and check our players status and replace them if they are not in good shape. Read the "SQUAD" section below for more info on how you can improve this area. ___________________ | OPTIONS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ You can access the game options. We'll focus on the "TACTICS" and "TRANSFER MARKET" later. All the other things here belongs to the game settings, so we are not going to talk about here. ___________________ | SAVE CAREER | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Never forget to save your career before you turn off your Xbox or you open the disc tray. Usually the game asks you if you want to save your game when you make changes to your Squad, but it's better to be sure... ___________________ | THE SQUAD | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ As I said before, we have to take care of this area. The best way to do well in all the matches is planning your games. I know that sometimes it becomes annoying, but in order to get good results and a team in shape we need to check our player status after EVERY game. Before you check your player status for the first time, choose the formation that fits your style the better. Personally I use the 3-4-3, because I like to have the ball all the time that I can, and this formation lets me have 4 man in the middle, and three strikers, which is kind of risky, but that's the formation I think suits me better. After you have picked your formation, check how many players you have for each area. The number of the player is within a globe, and the color of the globe varies depending on the natural position of the player. Light blue is for goalkeepers, dark blue is for defenders, light brown is for midfielders, and brown is for strikers. You will want to have at least the double of players your formation says. For example, in my case, with the 3-4-3 formation, the things goes this way: Goalkeepers: 2 or 3. Defenders: 6 or 5 Midfielders: 8 Strikers: 6 I know that the first season this is not an option, since you can't buy any player in the transfer window, so the first season you will have to work the things out with what you have. This is very important since you have to play two matches per week, and even though some players seems to be in good shape you don't want to abuse of that! When you are preparing your team for the incoming match, put the players that has not only a good shape but a good form too. A player that is at 97% of shape but has 5.5 form is not a guarantee that will do better than a 8.8 form player with a 88% of shape. Although if the player with better form is below 80% shape, choose another player if you can, since he's already tired and won't be at his better condition during the game. ___________________ | TRANSFER MARKET | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Let's face it, you need reinforcements for every season. At least that you signed with a five star team you will need to buy a star player. Thank God that the transfers are not like in FIFA 2004, when you had to sell two or three low-skilled players to get a really good player. And even if you had the money to buy the player, that doesn't mean the team wants to sell you the player... but we're not in FIFA 2004, we're in FIFA 2005, and things are a lot easier. There are only two transfer windows in the season. One is at the beginning of the season, during June. And the other one is at January. The money for the transfers is earned by you! Don't expect to have thousands of points at the beginning. You will earn this points by your own results, or by selling players to other teams. If it's your first season, I suggest you to don't buy any player at the June window, you should better save that money and if you are planning to change team at the end of the season, use that money to buy a good player with your new team. What I do suggest you is to sell a player or two with your first team (players that you usually don't use, and sell them at the January transfer window!), since you can accumulate that money even if you change team. ___________________ | TRADING PLAYERS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ The way to trade players is pretty easy. Once you make your first trade you will get used to it. Remember that you only have two transfer windows per year so don't waste that time! To buy a player, enter the "Transfer Market" section in the Options menu. First you will see here is your own formation. If you want to sort any team by position, name or skill, just press Y. To cycle through leagues around the world press right/left trigger. Once you are in the league you want, press white/black button to cycle through teams in that league. When you get to the team you're interested, navigate through the players and when you find the man you are looking, you can see his bio by pressing X, and negotiate with the team by pressing A. Fortunately the value of the players is given by their skill, and this means that no matter who the player is, their value will be the same with every player that is skilled the same with him. When you negotiate with the team, you can't see their skill at the time, but you can have an idea about it. Highest prices won't get above 40,000 points (and at this price we are talking about world class players). You can either accept the offer or refuse it and keep looking for another player. Sometimes you don't need to look for players, other teams will offer their players to you. You will be noticed of those offers when you return to the "Career central" after a match or after navigating through the options. But to be honest, most of the players you will be offered sucks. I can't remember of buying even one of this players. But it's up to you. This is useful specially when you are at a low division team and you can't afford world class players. As usual, you can either accept or refuse the offer. By the way, when refusing an offer, the team that offered you the player will get dissapointed, but honestly, who cares? Sometimes other teams are interested in one of your players. And here you will be informed too when other team wants to make an offer for any of your players. If you are interested, you can sell your player. Otherwise you just need to refuse the offer. ___________________ | HINTS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ There are some rules and hints you need to know about before selling or buying a player to other team: First. It sounds stupid, but happens sometimes! Before even thinking on buying a player you need to make sure you have enough money to buy him! You can see how much points you have by watching it at the bottom of the "Career central" window. Second. Now, this happens more often. It's when a player refuses to sign a contract with your team. Yeah, that sucks, I know. So that's why you have to consider a few things when trying to get a new star for your team. Don't expect to sign a high-skilled player (I would say above 90 skill points) if you are in a low division team. Or even if you are at a top league but you have a weak team, this players still will refuse to sign with you. Sometimes other players will refuse to sign with you because they don't want to sign with a rival team. Let's say you are Barcelona's manager, and you want to buy Ronaldo from Real Madrid. Even if you have enough points to get him, he will refuse to sign a contract, and he even won't be available for the rest of the transfer window! Why? because players don't want to sign for rival teams, even when in real life sometimes happens (any of you remember Figo being transfered from Barcelona to Real Madrid years ago?). Third. You can't trade a player that has just been signed during the season. You have to wait until next season to trade a player. Sometimes you are not satisfied with a player performance, but you have to wait the rest of the season since there's no way to undone that. Fourth. Finally, there's two other things that might happen when trading players. Sometimes when you try to sell a player, your board will tell you that you can't sell him. That sucks because sometimes you really want to get rid of that specific player and you just can't, no matter what you do. The board says that you are trying to sell an "emblematic player" (or something like that). You can only wait until next transfer window and try to sell him again... sometimes works, some other don't. And sometimes, when you try to buy a specific player, he will refuse to sign with you because he's not feeling up to... pretty stinky. They will say that they are very happy with their teams and since you can't offer more points, you just can wait until the next transfer window, and MAYBE you will be lucky and he will not be very happy with his team after all... ___________________ | CAREER EXAMPLE | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ When I started this example, I was thinking on make a complete 15 year example, but after watching the evolution of the example, I realized that actually there was almost everything you need to know before facing the Career mode for yourself, so I decided to let it as it is, starting the fourth year. My final advice here is, if it's the first time you play the Career mode, go ahead, I know that sooner or later you will be picking the five star teams and make an incredible team full of world class stars. It will be fun, but trust me, it will get repetitive and chances are that you won't last even 10 years! If you want to know what I did after beating this mode the first time, I started a new Career, and picked an unknow team from the Football League Two in England, it was Cambridge United (I know that the guys reading this in UK know this very well, so the "unknown" doesn't apply to them! =D). It was a half star team, with a 55 average skill level! It was hard, specially the first season, but by the end of the fifth year I made them win the ECC, EFA, make them go through the Premier League, etc. It was really satisfying for me, because this team become a four and a half star team! Of course, then I moved to another inferior league and did the same thing, and that way I beated the whole Career mode again in less than two months! ___________________ | SEASON 1 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ REGION: 2 LEAGUE: MLS (USA) TEAM: Los Angeles Galaxy TEAM INFO: Formation: 4-3-1-2 Players: POSITION NAME SKILL GK - K. Hartman 80 D. Popik 68 DEF - T. Marshall 66 D. Califf 74 C. Aloisi 61 R. Suarez 65 C. Albright 73 R. Lewis 66 H. Bo 75 S. Thompson 60 MID - C. Jones 72 M. Saragosa 65 S. Victorine 70 A. Herzog 79 P. Vagenas 64 N. Grabavoy 67 G. Gonzalez 65 P. Broome 59 J. Gardner 56 FWD - C. Ruiz 83 J. Kirovski 78 A. Moreno 72 A. Torres 61 J. Ngwenya 69 As you can see, at the beginning of my first year here I have 24 players. My star player will be Carlos Ruiz, since he's got the highest skill of the entire team (83). I won't sell any players at the beginning. I'm not planning to buy any though. I think that 24 players is a good number to face a season, so I won't start messing up with transfers right now. TACTICS: Mentality: ATTACK Attacking: WINGS Defense: CONTAIN Offisde Trap: OFF And with this everything is ready to start the season. Note that my job security at this point is 44%. SEASON: 4/16/2005 NY/NJ METROSTARS - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-1 Job Security: 47% League Position: 7th 4/23/2005 L.A. GALAXY - D.C. UNITED Result: 1-1 Job Security: 48% League Position: 3rd 4/30/2005 L.A. GALAXY - KANSAS CITY WIZARDS Result: 1-1 Job Security: 50% League Position: 2nd 5/07/2005 L.A. GALAXY - NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION Result: 0-0 Job Security: 53% League Position: 5th 5/14/2005 CHICAGO FIRE - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-2 Job Security: 57% League Position: 3rd 5/21/2005 DALLAS BURN - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-2 Job Security: 62% League Position: 3rd 5/28/2005 COLORADO RAPIDS - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-2 Job Security: 65% League Position: 1st 6/04/2005 SAN JOSE - L.A. GALAXY Result: 2-2 Job Security: 67% League Position: 2nd 6/11/2005 COLUMBUS CREW - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-0 Job Security: 68% League Position: 1st 6/15/2005 L.A. GALAXY - DALLAS BURN Result: 4-1 Job Security: 70% League Position: 1st 6/18/2005 L.A. GALAXY - NY/NJ METROSTARS Result: 1-0 Job Security: 73% League Position: 1st 6/23/2005 (MLS OPEN CUP) L.A. GALAXY - DALLAS BURN Result: 2-1 Job Security: 78% L.A. GALAXY ADVANCE TO QUARTER FINALS 7/02/2005 L.A. GALAXY - SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES Result: 0-2 Job Security: 73% League Position: 2nd 7/09/2005 L.A. GALAXY - COLORADO RAPIDS Result: 0-0 Job Security: 75% League Position: 2nd 7/16/2005 NEW ENGLAND - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-0 Job Security: 70% League Position: 2nd 7/23/2005 (MLS OPEN CUP) L.A. GALAXY - NY/NJ METROSTARS Result: 3-2 Job Security: 75% L.A. GALAXY ADVANCE TO SEMI FINALS 7/30/2005 KANSAS CITY WIZARDS - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-0 Job Security: 75% League Position: 2nd * A. Moreno was severily injured during this game (he was expected to return January 2006!), so I had to sell him. Bought Jamil Walker from San Jose Earthquakes. 8/06/2005 D.C. UNITED - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-1 Job Security: 78% League Position: 2nd 8/10/2005 L.A. GALAXY - CHICAGO FIRE Result: 1-1 Job Security: 78% League Position: 2nd 8/13/2005 L.A. GALAXY - COLUMBUS CREW Result: 2-0 Job Security: 82% League Position: 2nd 8/17/2005 DALLAS BURN - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-1 Job Security: 83% League Position: 2nd 8/20/2005 (MLS OPEN CUP) D.C. UNITED - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-1 Job Security: 87% L.A. GALAXY ADVANCE TO FINALS 8/27/2005 COLUMBUS CREW - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-3 Job Security: 88% League Position: 2nd 9/03/2005 SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-1 Job Security: 88% League Position: 2nd 9/10/2005 COLORADO RAPIDS - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-1 Job Security: 88% League Position: 2nd 9/17/2005 L.A. GALAXY - NEW ENGLAND Result: 0-0 Job Security: 90% League Position: 1st 9/24/2005 (MLS OPEN CUP) L.A. GALAXY - KANSAS CITY WIZARDS Result: 1-2 Job Security: 87% KANSAS CITY WIZARDS WIN THE MLS OPEN CUP 10/01/2005 L.A. GALAXY - KANSAS CITY WIZARDS Result: 2-1 Job Security: 87% League Position: 2nd 10/08/2005 L.A. GALAXY - D.C. UNITED Result: 0-0 Job Security: 89% League Position: 1st 10/12/2005 CHICAGO FIRE - L.A. GALAXY Result: 2-1 Job Security: 82% League Position: 1st 10/15/2005 NY/NJ METROSTARS - L.A. GALAXY Result: 1-1 Job Security: 82% League Position: 2nd So, the league ended here and LOS ANGELES GALAXY didn't won the MLS OPEN CUP and didn't won the league. At least they were at second place and that allowed them to play the MLS PLAYOFFS. 10/26/2005 (QUARTER FINAL, LEG 1) L.A. GALAXY - D.C. UNITED Result: 2-1 Job Security: 85% 11/02/2005 (QUARTER FINAL, LEG 2) D.C. UNITED - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-3 Job Security: 87% * L.A. GALAXY ADVANCE TO SEMI FINALS 11/12/2005 (SEMI FINAL) NY/NJ METROSTARS - L.A. GALAXY Result: 0-1 Job Security: 89% * L.A. GALAXY ADVANCE TO FINALS 11/19/2005 L.A. GALAXY - SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES Result: 3-2 Job Security: 92% * L.A. GALAXY WON THE MLS PLAYOFFS Ok, so the playoffs ended and you may think that I got all the credit, but i didn't! For some reason, this game will never ever give you the credit for winning the playoffs, no matter what country you are and no matter which team you use! Anyway, as I didn't won the league and I didn't sign for L.A. GALAXY again, in my statistics it appears as if I didn't won any cup, which isn't totally true, but there's nothing that can be done (yeah, that's what I call a huge and gigantic major GLITCH in this game!) Before I jump to the next season, let's see some statistics for this first year: MP - MATCHES PLAYED GS - GOALS SCORED GR - GOALS RECEIVED GD - GOAL DIFFERENCE (LEAGUE): 2nd MP W L D PTS GS GR GD 27 11 3 13 46 30 18 +12 BOARD REACTION: 94% L.A. GALAXY offered a re-sign with them, but since I'm not staying in the same team, at least not for now, I won't accept their offer and will look for another team. And this way my job with L.A. GALAXY finished... 2006 is ahead and I think is time to move to another part of the world. ___________________ | SEASON 2 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ REGION: 1 LEAGUE: Scottish Premier (Scotland) TEAM: Celtic TEAM INFO: Formation: 4-1-2-1-2 Players: POSITION NAME SKILL GK - S. Hughes 67 D. Marshall 80 M. Hedman 76 DEF - J. McNamara 85 M. Sylla 76 J. Valgaeren 81 D. Baldé 88 J. Kennedy 76 S. Varga 81 U. Laursen 75 MID - J. Morrow 64 D. McFadden 72 D. Agathe 81 S. Petrov 89 A. Thompson 83 R. Wallace 70 S. Pearson 78 D. Fernandez 75 A. McGeady 71 Juninho 79 FWD - C. Beattie 72 S. Maloney 83 C. Sutton 83 J. Hartson 80 H. Camara 78 Ok, I have 25 players and I think it's a nice number to face the season, but the truth is that I'm going to make some changes around here before I start any single game. First of all, I think that I have to get rid of some players and get another ones. I'm getting rid of a goalkeeper, and two midfielders. PLAYERS SOLD: S. Hughes (GK) J. Morrow (MID) R. Wallace (MID) And to have players according to my strategy, I'm buying a better skilled defender, and a good striker (well, the best my money can buy!) PLAYERS SIGNED: M. Zalayeta (ST) <78> A. Rauchbauer (DEF) <68> Both of this players are very young (Zalayeta is around 19 and Rauchbauer is 21), and I got them because of their age, because I'm sure that they will increase their stats with the time. TACTICS: Mentality: ATTACK Attacking: POSSESION Defense: PRESSING Offisde Trap: OFF And with this everything is ready to start the season. Note that my job security at this point is 44%. SEASON: 8/09/06 CELTIC - INVERNESS CT Result: 1-0 Job Security: 48% League Position: 1st 8/12/06 RANGERS - CELTIC Result: 2-0 Job Security: 36% League Position: 7th 8/15/06 (ECC) CELTIC - LIVERPOOL Result: 1-0 Job Security: 48% 8/19/06 CELTIC - DUMFERLINE Result: 5-0 Job Security: 57% League Position: 2nd 8/22/06 (ECC) LIVERPOOL - CELTIC Result: 1-1 (1-2 agg) Job Security: 65% CELTIC ADVANCES TO NEXT ROUND 8/26/06 DUNDEE UNITED - CELTIC Result: 2-1 Job Security: 59% League Position: 4th 9/02/06 CELTIC - LIVINGSTON Result: 3-0 Job Security: 62% League Position: 3rd 9/09/06 ALBERDEEN - CELTIC Result: 0-3 Job Security: 67% League Position: 2nd 9/16/06 CELTIC - KILMAMOCK Result: 4-1 Job Security: 70% League Position: 1st 9/19/06 (ECC) CELTIC - AUXERRE Result: 4-1 Job Security: 75% 1st PLACE ON GROUP 8 9/26/06 (ECC) ROSENBORG - CELTIC Result: 1-2 Job Security: 79% 1st PLACE ON GROUP 8 10/14/06 DUNDEE - CELTIC Result: 2-4 Job Security: 83% League Position: 2nd 10/21/06 CELTIC - HIBERNIAN Result: 1-0 Job Security: 84% League Positon: 2nd 10/25/06 (ECC) CELTIC - AJAX Result: 2-1 Job Security: 87% 1st PLACE ON GROUP 8 10/28/06 MOTHERWELL - CELTIC Result: 0-0 Job Security: 89% League Position: 2nd 10/31/06 (ECC) AUXERRE - CELTIC Result: 1-0 Job Security: 83% 1st PLACE ON GROUP 8 11/04/06 CELTIC - HEARTS Result: 2-1 Job Security: 83% League Position: 2nd 11/07/06 (ECC) CELTIC - ROSENBORG Result: 0-0 Job Security: 84% 1st PLACE ON GROUP 8 11/11/06 CELTIC - RANGERS Result: 3-1 Job Security: 86% League Position: 2nd 11/18/06 DUNFERLINE - CELTIC Result: 0-3 Job Security: 87% League Position: 2nd 11/25/06 CELTIC - DUNDEE UNITED Result: 2-1 Job Security: 89% League Position: 2nd 12/02/06 LIVINGSTON - CELTIC Result: 0-0 Job Security: 89% League Position: 2nd 12/06/06 (ECC) AJAX - CELTIC Result: 0-3 Job Security: 90% 1st PLACE ON GROUP 8 12/16/06 KILMAMOCK - CELTIC Result: 1-3 Job Security: 92% League Position: 1st 1/06/07 INVERNESS CT - CELTIC Result: 3-4 Job Security: 92% League Position: 2nd 1/13/07 CELTIC - ABERDEEN Result: 1-0 Job Security: 94% League Position: 2nd 1/20/07 CELTIC - DUNDEE Result: 1-0 Job Security: 94% League Position: 1st 1/27/07 HIBERNIAN - CELTIC Result: 1-1 Job Security: 94% League Position: 2nd 2/03/07 CELTIC - MOTHERWELL Result: 5-2 Job Security: 95% League Position: 2nd 2/10/07 HEARTS - CELTIC Result: 0-0 Job Security: 95% League Position: 2nd 2/17/07 CELTIC - HEARTS Result: 1-0 Job Security: 95% League Position: 1st 2/24/07 MOTHERWELL - CELTIC Result: 0-2 Job Security: 95% League Position: 1st 2/27/07 (ECC) CELTIC - LIEBHERR GAK Result: 1-0 Job Security: 97% Agg: 1-0 3/03/07 CELTIC - HIBERNIAN Result: 2-1 Job Security: 97% League Position: 1st 3/10/07 DUNDEE - CELTIC Result: 0-2 Job Security: 97% League Position: 1st 3/13/07 (ECC) LIEBHERR GAK - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 97% CELTIC ADVANCES TO QUARTER FINAL 3/17/07 (SCOTTISH CUP) KILMAMOCK - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 98% CELTIC ADVANCES TO SEMI FINAL (And before someone tells me there's a mistake here, let me tell you that the first one surprised was me! two games the same day and against the same team!) 3/17/07 CELTIC - KILMAMOCK Result: 4-0 Job Security: 98% League Position: 1st 3/27/07 (ECC) VALENCIA - CELTIC Result: 1-0 Job Security: 86% Agg: 1-0 4/03/07 (ECC) CELTIC - VALENCIA Result: 4-0 Job Security: 89% CELTIC ADVANCES TO SEMI FINAL * At this point I reached the following upgrade levels: LEVEL 1: Striker coach Midfielder coach Defence coach Goalkeeper coach Fitness coach Medical staff Finance staff 4/07/07 (SCOTTISH CUP) DUNFERMLINE - CELTIC Result: 1-3 Job Security: 91% CELTIC ADVANCES TO FINAL * At this point I reached the following upgrade levels: LEVEL 1: Scouting staff 4/14/07 CELTIC - INVERNESS CT Result: 5-1 Job Security: 92% League Position: 1st 4/21/07 ABERDEEN - CELTIC Result: 0-4 Job Security: 92% League Position: 1st 4/24/07 (ECC) AC MILAN - CELTIC Result: 2-0 Job Security: 89% Agg: 2-0 4/28/07 CELTIC - LIVINGSTON Result: 1-2 Job Security: 83% League Position: 1st 5/05/07 DUNDEE UNITED - CELTIC Result: 2-0 Job Security: 85% League Position: 2nd 5/08/07 (ECC) CELTIC - AC MILAN Result: 0-0 Job Security: 86% CELTIC ELIMINATED FROM ECC 5/12/07 CELTIC - DUNFERMLINE Result: 1-0 Job Security: 86% League Position: 2nd 5/19/07 RANGERS - CELTIC Result: 0-0 Job Security: 88% League Position: 2nd 6/02/07 (SCOTTISH CUP) CELTIC - HEARTS Result: 3-1 Job Security: 91% CELTIC WINS THE CUP And the season ended here. It was close, but Pablito Man couldn't win the league again, this time though he finished in a better position than last season. A second place and the Scottish Cup is really a good job after sim all of the games don't you think? But the board of directors is not happy with Pablito because of not winning league and tells him clearly that he did not meet the expectations... The statistics for this season MP - MATCHES PLAYED GS - GOALS SCORED GR - GOALS RECEIVED GD - GOAL DIFFERENCE (LEAGUE): 2nd MP W L D PTS GS GR GD 33 24 4 5 77 68 23 +45 BOARD REACTION: 89% The board was a little upset this time, I mean, losing the league just for two goals in the goal difference statistic was a little too anoying for them I think... But still after that they offered me to sign with them another year, and since Celtic has a good team, I will accept their offer for another year. ___________________ | SEASON 3 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ REGION: 1 LEAGUE: Scottish Premier (Scotland) TEAM: Celtic TEAM INFO: Formation: 4-1-2-1-2 Notes: Before starting with the players available for this season, three players decided to retire during the pre-season work. RETIRED PLAYERS: S. Varga (DEF) Juninho (MID) C. Sutton (ST) NEW PLAYERS: (from the scouting staff) R. Ormerod (ST) M. Kelemen (DEF) F. da Silva (MID) All of this new players are 19-20 years old guys that will take the retired players' positions. I won't buy any player for this season, since last season the team did really well and I still don't have enough money for a good star player! Players: POSITION NAME SKILL GK - S. Hughes 67 D. Marshall 80 M. Hedman 76 DEF - J. McNamara 85 M. Sylla 76 J. Valgaeren 81 D. Baldé 88 J. Kennedy 76 M. Kelemen 68 U. Laursen 75 MID - J. Morrow 64 D. McFadden 72 D. Agathe 81 S. Petrov 89 A. Thompson 83 R. Wallace 70 S. Pearson 78 D. Fernandez 75 A. McGeady 71 F. da Silva 62 ST - C. Beattie 72 S. Maloney 83 R. Ormerod 69 J. Hartson 80 H. Camara 78 TACTICS: The tactics will remain the same than last season! I don't want to mess up with that right now. SEASON: 8/08/07 CELTIC - LIVINGSTON Result: 3-0 Job Security: 65% League Position: 1st 8/11/07 RANGERS - CELTIC Result: 2-0 Job Security: 57% League Position: 5th 8/16/07 (EFA) CELTIC - AZ ALKMAAR Result: 3-0 Job Security: 63% 8/23/07 (EFA) AZ ALKMAAR - CELTIC Result: 0-3 Job Security: 69% CELTIC ADVANCES TO ROUND 1 9/01/07 MOTHERWELL - CELTIC Result: 2-1 Job Security: 63% League Position: 8th 9/08/07 CELTIC - HEARTS Result: 1-0 Job Security: 68% League Position: 7th 9/15/07 DUNFERMLINE - CELTIC Result: 0-0 Job Security: 69% League Position: 7th 9/20/07 (EFA) CELTIC - BARCELONA Result: 3-0 Job Security: 75% Group Position: 1st 9/27/07 (EFA) BARNSLEY - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 78% Group Position: 2nd 10/06/07 CELTIC - HIBERNIAN Result: 2-2 Job Security: 80% League Position: 6th 10/13/07 ABERDEEN - CELTIC Result: 0-4 Job Security: 82% League Position: 5th 10/20/07 CELTIC - DUNDEE Result: 0-2 Job Security: 86% League Position: 6th 10/27/07 KILMAMOCK - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 86% League Position: 6th 11/03/07 CELTIC - DUNDEE UNITED Result: 1-1 Job Security: 88% League Position: 6th 11/07/07 INVERNESS CT - CELTIC Result: 0-2 Job Security: 88% League Position: 5th 11/10/07 CELTIC - RANGERS Result: 0-0 Job Security: 89% League Position: 5th 11/17/07 CELTIC - KILMAMOCK Result: 0-0 Job Security: 89% League Position: 6th 11/24/07 CELTIC - MOTHERWELL Result: 2-1 Job Security: 91% League Position: 5th 12/01/07 HEARTS - CELTIC Result: 1-0 Job Security: 91% League Position: 7th 12/06/07 (EFA) CELTIC - SV WERDER BREMEN Result: 0-1 Job Security: 85% Group Position: 2nd 12/13/07 (EFA) INTER MILAN - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 86% Group Position: 1st 12/22/07 CELTIC - INVERNESS CT Result: 1-1 Job Security: 86% League Position: 7th * TRANSFER WINDOW UPDATE!!! After watching the poor performance of the team, I decided to sell one of the older strikers I had and get a better one. Hope this will improve the team's performance! SOLD: H. Camara (ST) BOUGHT: M. Pletsch (ST) (from some team in the brazilian league) 1/05/08 LIVINGSTON - CELTIC Result: 2-2 Job Security: 88% League Position: 7th 1/12/08 CELTIC - DUNFERMLINE Result: 0-1 Job Security: 83% League Position: 7th 1/19/08 HIBERNIAN - CELTIC Result: 0-2 Job Security: 85% League Position: 5th 1/26/08 CELTIC - ABERDEEN Result: 1-1 Job Security: 85% League Position: 5th 2/02/08 DUNDEE - CELTIC Result: 1-0 Job Security: 82% League Position: 6th 2/09/08 DUNDEE UNITED - CELTIC Result: 1-1 Job Security: 82% League Position: 6th 2/13/08 CELTIC - HEARTS Result: 1-0 Job Security: 83% League Position: 4th 2/16/08 CELTIC - DUNDEE UNITED Result: 1-0 Job Security: 85% League Position: 4th 2/21/08 (EFA) CELTIC - 1.FC SAARBRUCKEN Result: 2-1 Job Security: 88% 2/27/08 DUNFERMLINE - CELTIC Result: 1-5 Job Security: 89% League Position: 3rd 3/01/08 KILMAMOCK - CELTIC Result: 0-2 Job Security: 91% League Position: 2nd 3/06/08 (EFA) 1.FC SAARBRUCKEN - CELTIC Result: 1-2 Job Security: 92% CELTIC ADVANCES TO QUARTER FINAL 3/12/08 INVERNESS CT - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 94% League Position: 2nd 3/15/08 (SCOTTISH CUP) MOTHERWELL - CELTIC Result: 0-2 Job Security: 95% CELTIC ADVANCES TO SEMI FINAL 3/22/08 ABERDEEN - CELTIC Result: 0-0 Job Security: 95% League Position: 4th 3/27/08 (EFA) CELTIC - AC MILAN Result: 3-1 Job Security: 95% 4/03/08 (EFA) AC MILAN - CELTIC Result: 2-0 Job Security: 89% AC MILAN ADVANCES TO SEMI FINAL, CELTIC ELIMINATED 4/12/08 (SCOTTISH CUP) CELTIC - DUNFERMLINE Result: 4-1 Job Security: 91% CELTIC ADVANCES TO FINAL 4/19/08 MOTHERWELL - CELTIC Result: 1-1 Job Security: 91% League Position: 4th 4/23/08 CELTIC - LIVINGSTON Result: 3-0 Job Security: 91% League Position: 2nd 4/26/08 CELTIC - DUNDEE Result: 4-0 Job Security: 92% League Position: 2nd 5/14/08 CELTIC - HIBERNIAN Result: 0-0 Job Security: 92% League Position: 2nd 5/17/08 RANGERS - CELTIC Result: 1-1 Job Security: 92% League Position: 2nd 5/31/08 (SCOTTISH CUP) HEARTS - CELTIC Result: 0-1 Job Security: 95% CELTIC WINS THE SCOTTISH CUP (again...) Ok, another season, another dissapointment for the board, but hey, even though it was a really bad season (this time Pablito Man ended below for 14 points the first place), a second place is not that bad, I insist. I think that Pablito's job in Scotland has ended, so before I jump into another country, let's take a look to the statistics for this season. MP - MATCHES PLAYED GS - GOALS SCORED GR - GOALS RECEIVED GD - GOAL DIFFERENCE (LEAGUE): 2nd MP W L D PTS GS GR GD 33 14 6 13 55 43 21 +22 BOARD REACTION: 95% Ok, the board was expecting the league, but another second place was not what they might expect, so again there's a chance of re-sign with Celtic, but I think it would be a little too annoying right now to stay in the same team, so I'm taking my chances in another part of the world... ___________________ | SEASON 4 | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ REGION: 2 LEAGUE: Brazilian League (Brazil) TEAM: Cruzeiro TEAM INFO: Formation: 3-4-1-2 Players: POSITION NAME SKILL GK - Doni 74 Artur 69 DEF - Edu Dracena 80 Bruno Quadros 71 Gladstone 73 Sandro 71 Marco Aurelio 67 T. Saragosa 65 MID - Maurinho 81 Augusto Recife 72 C. Maldonado 78 Leandro 78 Adriano 78 A. Schmitz 74 L. Martinez 75 Jardel 72 Marcio 67 FWD - H. Tapia 76 Fred 77 Jussie 74 Kanu 67 R. Elber 66 Well, I have 22 players to face this new challenge. A quick inspection to the players tells me that this is a mid-skilled team, because as you can see most of the players are around 70, some in 60 and a couple in 80. It would be great if I could get a really good star striker, but I just can't afford it right now (my budget is around 14,000 points). We'll let that for later, maybe in the January window or if I take another year at this team I will try to get another player. TACTICS: Mentality: ATTACK Attacking: POSSESSION Defense: PRESSING Offisde Trap: OFF Ok, everything's ready for another season. Take a sit and see how Pablito is going to do in South-America! SEASON: 3/29/09 BOTAFOGO - CRUZEIRO Result: 2-1 Job Security: 38% League Position: 14th 4/05/09 CRUZEIRO - SAO PAULO Result: 2-1 Job Security: 42% League Position: 9th 4/12/09 FLAMENGO - CRUZEIRO Result: 3-0 Job Security: 33% League Position: 11th This is as far as I got with this example. I think it's pretty much complete to give you an idea of how you must do (and of course how you DON'T have to do) in your own career. Hope it was helpful! ___________________ | FINAL WORDS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I really enjoyed playing this game and making this guide, and I hope you enjoyed reading it. Even though I'm always saying that EA needs to improve a lot of things, I still believe that this is one of the best franchises EA has to offer (and I'm not talking only about soccer games). I recommend you give FIFA Street a try, since I've played with it just a couple of hours and I think it's a really nice game. I recommend you to play it with other two friends at the same time and I guarantee you will have a lot of fun! And since I'm not afilliated to EA or anything, I can recommend you Winning Eleven 8, which is the "sand in the shoe" for EA SPORTS, and I can tell you that if you enjoyed the Career mode in FIFA 2005, you sure will love all the work you have to do in WE8's Master League! Ok, that's it, I have nothing else to say or do here... See you in my next FAQs! ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ___________________ | THANKS | ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ To EA SPORTS for making such great games year after year. To my girlfriend Monna! To you, who's reading this, thank you. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ