Electronic Arts have announced that Luiz Felipe Scolari who is currently managing Chelsea FC and has won the FIFA World Cup as manager of Brazil in 2002 will be the Academy Master of EA Sports Football Academy. In the game, Scolari guides players through the game and gives useful tips and suggestions on becoming a football expert.
EA Sports Football Academy is designed to improve football knowledge ranging from identifying football players and teams to understanding team formations. Players have over 90 hours of playing time with 14 mini-games. Players’ performance is gauged by the Football IQ rating making it easy to asses who the premier football expert is. Each time you take a mini-game test, you have a chance to earn players to add to your Academy team.
EA Sports Football Academy lets gamers assemble an Academy ‘dream team’ and take that team to compete with the best of European football teams and gamers can trade football players with friends to give their dream teams that edge they always wanted. The object of the game, like in real life, is to obtain the perfect crop of players with high team chemistry.
Football Academy’s football players blend better with each other if the gamer has a higher Football IQ rating. Gamers can show their mettle by guiding their teams to victory and by making correct in-game decisions like substitution, tactics change and match mentality. While playing the game Academy Badges are available as rewards. Players must try to collect these to move towards football greatness. Scolari’s advice can prove useful in obtaining the Academy Badges.
EA Sports Football Academy ships to Europe on March 20, 2009 and will release exclusively for the Nintendo DS. It is a single player offline game and two players can play using Wi-Fi.