subbing out my captain and not being able to select a new one is quite ridiculous. heres hoping EA fixes this

And being able to choose your captain provides what exactly? Other than seeing the guy you want with the yellow band around his arm...

I have few created teams in a database in fifa07, will I can export my created teams in FIFA08 (with Creation Master) like I can do that with Champ. Leag. 07?

And other quest: Will demo database have same structure as the FIFA08 database (I mean the diff. to be only numb. of teams, leagues and so on) ?

How the hell do you expect anyone to know that?

provides what? leadership on the pitch which should enhance or hurt your play depending on who you choose to be a leader.

How the hell do you expect anyone to know that?

i second that :monkey:

Sorry Snoop, I'll have to third it...

Does that actually make a difference in gameplay?

it certainly does in real life, so can you explain why it shouldn't in the game?

I think guys that when it comes to games the captain is always the gamer himself. you are the one who is leading and moving players the way you like... So the importance of having a captain in a FIFA game is like asking EA to assign coaches for each team based on real life, which could increase the performance of the players, but think about it again, you are the Coach! :)

So no big deal of having a captain or a coach. :)

nobody knows that, exept EA Makers, so i fourth it too

no big deal, TO YOU. Please stop making such broad decisions for everyone else. OK? Thanks. Especially when the AI is playing each other, it would matter. Plus yes I would like to see coaching styles and teams not making as many mistakes if they have a good leadership captain on the field. He goes down, your team never plays as well, just like real life.

Y0DaddyAlex, thank you! :)

Y0DaddyAlex of all the irrelevant things in this world i think that this one is just amazing, you should preach to the people, I'd put you on TV on Sunday in time of the morning mass! **** Church I'm gonna listen to the man that speaks about the relevance of an armband in a game, the relevance of it being on a little man you choose and not the computer in a situation that actually maybe happens more than three times in a month, in a situation when you substitute a captain of a team in a game on your computer! In a crucial situation where you have to play three or even more than three minutes with that cursed armband on a player you don't want to lead your team, although that actually doesn't affect the game, cause the guys at Ea Sports have only a year to make the game and not seven to have the time to think about something that 98 percent of people playing Fifa don't even notice! Oh but it does affect the game, doesn't it Daddy it does and i'm a bastard for talking **** like this,and you, you will personally hunt me down and make me appreciate that little stripe on my screen.
Maybe it affects you mentally and you play better when it's on the arm of a guy you trust?

Hope you won't get angry by this, and find it funny too.:)
This is just practice for me, i'm learning to become a dentist:)
Cheers my Friend!

Since it's a crutial part of real life football EA better allow us to chose captains (& Vice Captains would be nice too).....MAJOR part of the game, should not be overlooked for a video game.....If it's in the game.........

Look i'm even gonna apologize myself before you read it.
You know i could be a good friend!:)

**** i'm bored!
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Who gives a dam...EA should focus on the gameplay and not about insignificant stuff...i mean really...half of the time you forget about who the captain is.

Did someone really just say VICE captains? Freekin americans. (and I'm an american) THERE ARE NO VICE-CAPTAINS IN REAL LIFE!! Incompitent boob.

If your first captain is such a leader and skilled why sub him out any way? The only thing relevant to the game would be to see a cut-scene of them exchanging the armband.

irrelevant? Hardly, team strategy and composure is a key part of the game... unfortunately we have people who play these games who obviously never leave their rooms and PLAY the game in real life, and they do not understand such things as tactics and leadership unless they have seen it in past versions of video games

Did someone really just say VICE captains? Freekin americans. (and I'm an american) THERE ARE NO VICE-CAPTAINS IN REAL LIFE!! Incompitent boob.

If your first captain is such a leader and skilled why sub him out any way? The only thing relevant to the game would be to see a cut-scene of them exchanging the armband.

Uhm sorry mate but there are vice-captains in real life football(they are the ones, that take the captaining responsibilities if the captain isn't playing - if he's subbed or he doesn't start the game at all) There are two vice-captains in a team in most cases. And here's an example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United_F.C.
Gary Neville is the captain, and Ryan Giggs is the vice-captain,
Other than that i agree with you, **** americans and their knowledge and appreciation of FOOTBALL (soccer doesn't exist) and you can call your game Rugby with pads (or SissyRugby) and it would be nice to see better subbing animations!
Cheers mate!s

irrelevant? Hardly, team strategy and composure is a key part of the game... unfortunately we have people who play these games who obviously never leave their rooms and PLAY the game in real life, and they do not understand such things as tactics and leadership unless they have seen it in past versions of video games

You really never stop, of course its relevant in real life but this is a game and in the game it doesn't make other than a visual difference!

So tell me when you're so smart, does a captain lead the team in the game? Does he make tactical decisions? Hahaha, you're a joke man.
You're pushing on this for the wrong reasons, you're trying to prove how you see the relevance of and how others don't. I would like to see them make that option available but i don't try to make it look that it's because i know football better.

it should have effects on players' stats, so it can have more than just a "visual" difference, you don't stop. And a captain does make decisions, a coach can make them but on the field the players listen to their leader more than they do their coach. you're pushing on this, get the hell out of my thread if you don't agree with it. some of you people are quite sad. find something else to do than spam my topic.

it should have effects on players' stats, so it can have more than just a "visual" difference, you don't stop. And a captain does make decisions, a coach can make them but on the field the players listen to their leader more than they do their coach. you're pushing on this, get the hell out of my thread if you don't agree with it. some of you people are quite sad. find something else to do than spam my topic.

I shall trouble you no more my little friend.

it should have effects on players' stats, so it can have more than just a "visual" difference, you don't stop. And a captain does make decisions, a coach can make them but on the field the players listen to their leader more than they do their coach. you're pushing on this, get the hell out of my thread if you don't agree with it. some of you people are quite sad. find something else to do than spam my topic.


lol...when you make a thread people don't have to go in and agree with what you are stating you know?

I shall trouble you no more my little friend.

are you even 12 years old?

lol...when you make a thread people don't have to go in and agree with what you are stating you know?

if you have nothing productive to say, why are you even posting in a topic you disagree with?

if you have nothing productive to say, why are you even posting in a topic you disagree with?


If you don't realize it...it's the whole purpose of a thread to get all kinds of different opinions...people agree and disagree and that's why you open a thread....TO DISCUSS

Temper guys... keep it calm. Remember, we don't have to agree on everything - how boring would life be if we did?

Like in fifa 06 world cup when u win the world cup u lift the trophy and celebrate

would be cool - after playing through a whole tournament I kind of get annoyed when there isn't much 'reward'

If you don't realize it...it's the whole purpose of a thread to get all kinds of different opinions...people agree and disagree and that's why you open a thread....TO DISCUSS


I dont consider an opinion and constructive criticism to be "this is the stupidest idea ever" "stop talking" etc if you disagree, fine. say you dont think it should be in the game. but acting like 12 year olds throwing insults is ridiculous

I'm not even going to disucss your thoughts on 'sissy rugby' this isn't the time or place for that.

And vice captain to me, means that there are 2 captains at the same time. One of more importance than the other. Like President and Vice President, but in football there is only one captain at a time.

The way you view it, yes there is a vice captain, but the way I view vice captaincy it isn't.

And in real life being a captain doesn't make your skills better (sometimes it makes it worse) so why should it in the game? Your thinking of fantasy football/soccer.

having a leader as a captain should help your team not make more mistakes and have more composure among other things that true great leaders always do on any sporting field. michael jordan pushed his players to their best when he was captain, sure a different sport, but the same idea. a captain is the leader, a team without a good leader is not a good team

Just figured id throw this out there... anyone who'd edited or created players using CM07 will know that there is a 'leadership' option. So maybe EA did plan to implement captaincy having an effect ingame.
Although in a user controlled game, captaincy may not have much of an impact, (maybe the captain can calm down a few players to stop them getting sent off), But in a Simmed game (since i personally dont like playing every single game in the season), the captain could have an effect on the game, in the end effecting the ending of the game.
Though, even if captiancy had no effect what-so-ever in game, if im playing as liverpool, i want Steven Gerrard to be our captain.

But im going of the main topic, should captains be swapped if the player is subbed. (also answering an earlier comment about 'if you like the captain so much then dont sub him out then you dont have to worry about captaincy' injuries happen, if the captain is about to pass out from exhaustion then he needs to be subbed), well i feel just for presentation and for accuracy, there should be the swapping of the armband. Since FIFA is supposed to be simulation... dont see many flight sims with planes without wings, (mention helicopters and i will eat your babies)

Where do I open FIFA08 Kit thread?

I am hoping that the A1 is smarter this season...

I am still having a hard time understanding WHY if you are beating the computer in manager mode does it sub out a middie or a forward for a defender late in the game ??

But im going of the main topic, should captains be swapped if the player is subbed. (also answering an earlier comment about 'if you like the captain so much then dont sub him out then you dont have to worry about captaincy' injuries happen, if the captain is about to pass out from exhaustion then he needs to be subbed), well i feel just for presentation and for accuracy, there should be the swapping of the armband. Since FIFA is supposed to be simulation... dont see many flight sims with planes without wings, (mention helicopters and i will eat your babies)You can change your captain to a certain degree, for example, say you want to subsitute Steven Gerrard, but you want Jamie Carragher to be captain. First, sub out carragher for the oncoming substutute, then sub Carragher for Gerrard, adjust the team so everyone is back in the correct position, and Carragher will now be captain.

Who you have as captain actually has an effect on team chemistry, whether this makes a difference to team play I have no idea.

I don't think you can sub a player back in after you've subbed him out...:S

I don't think you can sub a player back in after you've subbed him out...:SWell the substitutions aren't made untill you restart the game, otherwise you wouldn't be able to sub the player back on again would you. It does work, trust me.

would be cool - after playing through a whole tournament I kind of get annoyed when there isn't much 'reward'

I agree with Mattwinter, one of the main things Fifa 08 is missing are the cup celebrations. It's a bit of a let down that after you win the Champions League :drevil:ECC:drevil: , all the players do is run around the field and take pictures of each other.

Another addon that would be nice is more Formations. Ea sports should take a leaf out a Football Managers book and make there formations the way they do (You drag the players on the position of the pitch you want them to play on). This way you have every single formation possible and alot of gamers will be much happier :)

As someone who play in a real life team (although it's more of an amateur league), I have to say that the captain of the team has absolutelly no impact on morale or any of this non-sence some people are saying. Our captain is just one player. If he gets substituted or sits on the bench for a game, we are still the same team and know what we have to do. And this is an amateur league. We have to go out and win and that's all that matters.

At the professional level, if players need a captain to perform better, than they shouldn't be playing in a pro league. The captain is but one individual in a sea of other great players. His role is more symbolic than anything else. He's the guy who walks up to the centre of the field to meet the other team captain and ref before a game starts and nothing more. After that he's just another player.

Having a captain in the field or not is irrelevant to the performance of the team. Whoever came up with this idea probably never played football before. Everyone knows their role and their job and everyone goes out on the field wanting to win, captain or no captain.

Having a captain in the field or not is irrelevant to the performance of the team. Whoever came up with this idea probably never played football before. Everyone knows their role and their job and everyone goes out on the field wanting to win, captain or no captain.Wrong, a player with strong leadership qualities will affect the morale of the players surrounding him as a confident player will instill confidence in others. The captain is a leader therefore a good captain will have a positive effect and a bad captain a negative one.

That's baloni dude. Do you even know what you are saying? So if a club pays a player 20million a year, are you saying that he will have his morale and performance affected if the captain gets benched? Are you saying that the money he gets payed is not enough to keep him motivated?

The only person that really affects a team is the coach. If the captain starts telling players what to do, the team is in for big trouble.

The captain is not a general. He's not there to command the troups. Obviously you just play football on yout computer or you wouldn't be talking. What you perceive and what happens in reallity are 2 completly different things.

A top quality leader can make a difference to a team, but in football they are rare birds indeed (Bobby Moore and Franz Beckenbauer are the only two that spring immediately to mind, although I'm sure there must be others)

The captain is not a general. He's not there to command the troups. Obviously you just play football on yout computer or you wouldn't be talking. What you perceive and what happens in reallity are 2 completly different things.
You obviously think you're the only one that plays football for real and the rest of us just play on computers, well you're in for a shock when you stick your head into the real world my friend. Join the other millions of real footballers out there instead of thinking you know more than the rest of us because you happen to play football for some team.

For example, I don't know if you're English, but do you think that Liverpool are the same team when Steven Gerrard isn't playing? I'm sure as a proper footballer you know the answer is no. That is because apart from being a superb footballer himself, he lifts the players around him due to his leadership qualities. THAT is what having a good leader (I won't say captain because you can have more than one leader on the pitch) can do for you.

Than liverpool should pay their players less since all that money they throw at them is basically useless if Gerard is not there wearing the armband.

But the thing is that Gerard is a good player and a key player for the team. If they made someone else captain and Gerard was still playing, the team would perform just as well.

It has nothing to do with the fact that he is captain but with the fact that he is a key player for that team. Players don't get their morales lifted because of whoever wears the armband.

But I guess in the 17 of wisdom you have accumulated in your life time, you know it all.

Good Comeback, well warranted the 3 hours it took to think it up. Pretty rich calling me a know it all when you started shooting your mouth off with the "I play football so I know more than the rest of you"

The fact still remains whether you like it or not, who you pick as captain in FIFA08 has an effect on team chemistry.

I'm not going to bother trying to reason or discuss, because as you've said on numerous occasions, You play football so must know everything.

Glad to see you acknowledge that. I do know everything!

who you pick as captain in FIFA08 has an effect on team chemistry
I've no idea which platform you are playing on but I'm fairly certain that the captain makes absolutely no difference to team chemistry on the PC version of FIFA 08. The only elements that factor into team chemistry are morale, team experience and whether or not players are playing in their preferred position.

I've no idea which platform you are playing on but I'm fairly certain that the captain makes absolutely no difference to team chemistry on the PC version of FIFA 08. The only elements that factor into team chemistry are morale, team experience and whether or not players are playing in their preferred position.
I'm playing on a 360. I noticed that playing as Liverpool, when I subbed out Gerrard, the team chemistry dropped by 9 (as the oncoming player assumes captaincy). However, if I switched the captaincy to Carragher or Alonso say, the chemistry only dropped by 4 or 5.