Football Manager has, over the years, given aspiring gamers the chance to be the boss of a professional soccer team. In 2014, though, it is the actual football bosses who are turning to the game for advice on which players to buy.<\/p>\n
Premier League clubs in England have begun using the game’s database to help identify and recruit new signings.<\/p>\n
Sports Interactive, the game’s creators, will start providing information from its\u00a0databases to Prozone Recruiter – an online analysis platform which many of the top clubs use to scout new talent.<\/p>\n
Biographical, contractual, and positional information compiled by Sports Interactive\u00a0over 20 years is the crux of the data being fed into the Prozone tool, along\u00a0with\u00a0video footage of thousands of players worldwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cProzone Recruiter has been built to supplement the intuition of scouts and coaches by delivering detailed performance information on over 80,000 players worldwide,\u201d says Prozone\u2019s CEO Thomas Schmider.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sports Interactive database is a highly accurate and valuable resource that will further enhance the recruitment services that we provide. The integration of Sports Interactive data further establishes Recruiter as the most comprehensive recruitment and asset management platform available.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sports Interactive\u2019s studio director Miles Jacobson said: \u201cFor years we’ve heard stories of real-life managers and scouts using our data to help with the recruitment process. From now on, it\u2019s official\u2026real managers around the world will be finding and comparing players using data and a search system that will be very familiar to players of Football Manager.”<\/p>\n
Football Manager players, you might be closer to the position of Club Manager than you realised.<\/p>\n