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What Online Football Games Teach About Developing a Player
Football management and career games like Football Manager and the career modes of EA Sports FC are deeply concerned with...
The best footballers seem to see the future, arriving where the ball will be and making the right choice before anyone else.
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Football management and career games like Football Manager and the career modes of EA Sports FC are deeply concerned with...
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Football video games, especially those with deep tactical and management layers, are secretly among the best ways to develop...
Match Tactics
After every tournament knockout decided on penalties, someone in the pub says the same thing: it is a lottery.
Match Tactics
On a tactics board, a high press looks simple. Your forwards close down the center backs, your midfielders cut passing lanes,...
Games
Football is nothing without its fans, and the best football games, from EA Sports FC to Football Manager, understand that the...
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Casual viewers watch the ball, but anyone who understands football knows the real game is in the movement away from it, the...
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Three writers who come at football from different angles: one breaks down match tactics and substitutions, one writes about player and youth development from time spent on training grounds, and one covers fan culture and club history. Every article carries a byline, and every byline links to everything else that person has written.