City players learn off fifa?

[DanTheBlue]

sorry if already posted, being a massive fifa fan i find this cool but also a bit odd!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWbihOjuTYg[/youtube]

sorry if already posted

 

[mammyjam]

lol at jack wilshire having to be subtitled

 

[lee-mcfc]

lol at jack wilshire having to be subtitled

damn you just beat me! was about to post that

funny though as i didnt understand a word the lad said

 

[Adam-mcfc]

There's no way it's a part of their education. They probably just use it as a team bonding exercise.

 

[bluecityboy]

Saw it the other day.Knew this would find its way on here soon.

 

[Jackson-ctid]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

 

[SS117]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

I guess Michael Carrick doesn't play Fifa then.

 

[california blue]

I'll tell you if its a good tool or not...im going to E3 and playing fifa 12 thursday!

 

[MC ID]

Well then Man City sign me up, I beat Barca 3-1 only last monday :P

I lie of course, i'm as shit at Fifa as I am actual football... Luckily all is not lost and i'll be part of Sepp Blatters Brain Trust in a couple weeks.

 

[Adam-mcfc]

I'll tell you if its a good tool or not...im going to E3 and playing fifa 12 thursday!

Lucky bastard

 

[Colins Bellend]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

Yeh right

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

Laughable statement.

Out of me and my mates, the best Fifa player is the one who spends more time on his Xbox than the rest of us and has no interest in real football and never has had. I'd put money on him beating most pros to be honest, a good footballing brain isn't going to beat a guy who'll put in 3 or 4 hours practice a day.

It's a computer game, all football games have what I call 'automatic goals' and Fifa is no different.

I hate shattering illusions but just because you're good at something in a computer game doesn't mean it's the same in reality.

In fact I blame Fifa and Football Manager for the alarming rise in self appointed 'football experts' who can wax lyrical about 17yr old foreign lads they've never seen play and questioning why Mancini hasn't adopted their own FM tactic which has seen MCFC go unbeaten for 2000 games in all competitions.

 

[Manchester la la la la]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

Laughable statement.

Out of me and my mates, the best Fifa player is the one who spends more time on his Xbox than the rest of us and has no interest in real football and never has had. I'd put money on him beating most pros to be honest, a good footballing brain isn't going to beat a guy who'll put in 3 or 4 hours practice a day.

It's a computer game, all football games have what I call 'automatic goals' and Fifa is no different.

I hate shattering illusions but just because you're good at something in a computer game doesn't mean it's the same in reality.

In fact I blame Fifa and Football Manager for the alarming rise in self appointed 'football experts' who can wax lyrical about 17yr old foreign lads they've never seen play and questioning why Mancini hasn't adopted their own FM tactic which has seen MCFC go unbeaten for 2000 games in all competitions.

this

 

[Blue Smarties]

Why is 'baby face' using it as a scouting system? Mug. The only game I'd dream of using as a scouting system if I was forced into doing so would be FM.

 

[california blue]

think ole was thinking he was giving an interview about footie manager

 

[RuncornBlue]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

Laughable statement.

Out of me and my mates, the best Fifa player is the one who spends more time on his Xbox than the rest of us and has no interest in real football and never has had. I'd put money on him beating most pros to be honest, a good footballing brain isn't going to beat a guy who'll put in 3 or 4 hours practice a day.

It's a computer game, all football games have what I call 'automatic goals' and Fifa is no different.

I hate shattering illusions but just because you're good at something in a computer game doesn't mean it's the same in reality.

In fact I blame Fifa and Football Manager for the alarming rise in self appointed 'football experts' who can wax lyrical about 17yr old foreign lads they've never seen play and questioning why Mancini hasn't adopted their own FM tactic which has seen MCFC go unbeaten for 2000 games in all competitions.

That goes without saying - they aren't saying "If you're good at FIFA, you'll be good at football" - picking a pass out in a game is silimar to real life as is tracking a run. That doesn't mean that you automatically have the skill to be able to play the pass that happens on FIFA. But I can see how it can aid the technical side of things.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

Laughable statement.

Out of me and my mates, the best Fifa player is the one who spends more time on his Xbox than the rest of us and has no interest in real football and never has had. I'd put money on him beating most pros to be honest, a good footballing brain isn't going to beat a guy who'll put in 3 or 4 hours practice a day.

It's a computer game, all football games have what I call 'automatic goals' and Fifa is no different.

I hate shattering illusions but just because you're good at something in a computer game doesn't mean it's the same in reality.

In fact I blame Fifa and Football Manager for the alarming rise in self appointed 'football experts' who can wax lyrical about 17yr old foreign lads they've never seen play and questioning why Mancini hasn't adopted their own FM tactic which has seen MCFC go unbeaten for 2000 games in all competitions.

That goes without saying - they aren't saying "If you're good at FIFA, you'll be good at football" - picking a pass out in a game is silimar to real life as is tracking a run. That doesn't mean that you automatically have the skill to be able to play the pass that happens on FIFA. But I can see how it can aid the technical side of things.

It's a game, it's a vague representation of football albeit an enjoyable and popular one.

My mate who could probably name 5 City/rag players off the top of his head has simply played it enough to know the flaws in the game and how best to expose them. As a result he's very good.

To be good at football you need to practice a lot.
To be good at Fifa you need to practice a lot.

Which is why 11 nerds would crush Barca on Fifa but would be humiliated in a game of real football.

Likewise a kid who spends 2 hours a day on guitar hero will probably beat Jimmy Page on the game but in a real guitar showdown would be left sadly wanting.

I've also heard decent Guitar Hero players claim that you need a good musical brain to be any good at the game. The same mate who beats me on Fifa would battered me on Beatles Rock Band yet in real life I can actually play most of the songs on a real guitar and have been doing so since I was 10.

It's a good game, a great game but that's all it is.

 

[leithblue]

I could give anyone a game of Risk, hopefully the Ministry of Defence will recognise this and make me commander in chief next time we go to war.

It's also my lack of Monopoly skills that warned me against a career in Estate Agency.

But seriously I do seem to remember some drivers using the F1 games a lot to imprint tracks and corners on their memory?

 

[matt99is]

anyone ever played FIFA with 4 friends against the CPU?...it's really fucking difficult and takes loads of team work and you genuinely celebrate like lunatics when you score! great team building exercise i say, wont teach them anything other than that. if it did you'd have silva trying to press x when tevez is open

But seriously I do seem to remember some drivers using the F1 games a lot to imprint tracks and corners on their memory?

I know for a fact most of them play gran tourismo, very good physics and the perfect tool, like you said. for learning the racks. vettel developed one of the cars in it with the game team too.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

It stands to reason that if a race track is 100% accurately rendered in a game, prolonged exposure to it would breed a familiarity within the player.

They could also study aerial pictures of the track for hours on end although I'd imagine it's much less fun.

I'm not arguing that games can't help familiarise a person with a concept, whether it be the outlay of a race track, the rules of football or space flight. I'm saying that games don't accurately represent any of the activities to the point where a working knowledge of the real thing over rules practice and familiarity with the game engine.

A cage fighter with all his knowledge of combat and his natural instincts would still get the shit kicked out of him on UFC2011 by a 9yr old who plays the game quite a bit for the simple reason that the real life activity and the computer rendered one are entirely different disciplines.