Questions about Fifa '08 (Merged Threads)

[Styphelus]

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.

 

[Jeffgrant15]

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.

 

[Styphelus]

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.

 

[StevePitts]

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)

 

[Jeffgrant15]

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.

 

[Styphelus]

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.

 

[Jeffgrant15]

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.

 

[Styphelus]

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

 

[StevePitts]

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.

 

[Jeffgrant15]

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.