When pressing the shoot-button, a rectangle, representing the goal should appear in the upper left corner. The size should correspond to the distance to the goal (big when 5 meters away, small when 30 meters away).
In the rectangle should be a moving cross-hair, which can be moved by you (however not presicely - depending on the skill of the player you use) to target your shot. The longer you hold the button, the hard the shot and the faster the crosshair moves/reacts.
This means that when shooting from 10 meters placing the crosshair in the retangle should be fairly easy, getting it exactly where you want it a good bit harder. For 30 meter shots of course this should be really hard.

I would love this system since you could really shoot where you want and would need some skill to do so. You need to get the timing before hammering shots from outside the box, and finally shots would go wide.
With this difficult shooting system, there would be no need anymore for supergoalies, it would be 50% goalie skill, 50% shooter skill. You could also beat the goalie by shooting very weak into the opposite direction he is running.

What do you think?

yeah, but how are you going to have time to aim when their are defenders and keepers all trying to castrate you and steal the ball?

it could work, but only in the general direction

But that`s the point. I think perfect shots when surrounded by 3 defenders are unrealistic.
Remeber Figo vs. England. He had 10 seconds to take aim. If you are free in the game, you should have much more time to adjust the shot then when covered by defenders.
And if you are in the box you are closer to the goal and the rectangle will be bigger so getting the ball at least on the goal should be possible when aiming for a second or less.
I think this is a realistic way, since when you dribble in real life and you are face to face with a defender, how much time and how much sucess will you have to shoot the ball in a perfect way? 10 to 20 percent?

I like the concept. It would probably need some refining... but there's 2 problems...

1 - getting someone to implement it (ie. EA)
2 - would all or most gamers accept it?

that with EA is a good point.
I think that Fifa2001 is not customizable enough - just look at NHL2001.
That's probably because 50% of the gameplay is scripted.
It should a least be implemented as an option: turn it on or play (unrealistic) as before...

I think that this is a good idea!!!!
If u try to contact the EA sports maybe they will think that this is a good idea too???
Or we have to make them to see this message!!!

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Wasnt a similar system used in Three Lions, a couple of years back? The game was ripped to pieces, mainly because of the shooting system. I can see where your coming from though, maybe if it was executed well...?

Come on! We want a better game!!! So what is YOUR opinion???