In Seville’s floodlights at FUT 22 Coins the stadium with 60,000 seats La Cartuja stadium, two Andalusian teams take to the pitch for the latest chapter of their fierce rivalry in the region. It’s possibly the most important game of their lives and it’s evident right away.
Just moments after kick-off, crushing slide tackles are hurled in and opposing players barge at each other to get the ball. A late challenge lights the touch paper and the two teams confront each other, arms stretched out, chests full of air, as they wave imaginary yellow tickets to the official.
As the fouls tally up and so do the goals. Atletico Sanluque?o go 3-1 up. CD Gerena abandons their possession-based, patient play in the second half. The pacy forwards and wingers are replaced by powerful forwards. Long balls are swung into the box and wave after wave is held back by Sanluque??o’s incredible leaps. Gerena scores a goal, however there is a limit to how much the wall-to-wall defense can take on.
With just a few minutes left and the desperation taking over tired minds and legs Sanluque?o launches a brutal breakaway and win 4-2. The Gerena team falls on their backs as the players are celebrating. Some shrug their shoulders, while others gaze up to the heavens. They’re aware of how significant this game is about – it will be remembered as one of the most influential 90 minutes of football played. It will not make the record books.
Each side is wearing motion capture suits from Xsens and not club colors. In the touchline, crews are sitting on laptops. Short-range signalling devices, tracking players’ movement to the millimetre. They sit in the stands alongside production staff studying tablets displaying live data. A director of animation watches the proceedings on Zoom from hundreds of miles away. But this isn’t the work of buy FIFA 22 Coins a space-age scouting team, nor the most recent coaching innovations.