# Are any soccer video games as popular as US football and baseball ones?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 1, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-soccer-video-games-as-popular-as-us-football-and-baseball-ones/319556 "2005-09-01T05:57:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-soccer-video-games-as-popular-as-us-football-and-baseball-ones/319556/1 "2005-09-01T05:57:50Z")

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Just curious. Are there any soccer video games as technically sophisticated and popular as US Football and Baseball video games?

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-soccer-video-games-as-popular-as-us-football-and-baseball-ones/319556/2 "2005-09-01T06:43:52Z")

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There’s Konami’s [Winning Eleven Nation](http://www.onlineregister.com/konami/wenation/).

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**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-soccer-video-games-as-popular-as-us-football-and-baseball-ones/319556/3 "2005-09-01T06:47:01Z")

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How about EA Sport’s [Fifa](http://www.easports.com/games/fifa06/index.jsp) line of games?

I don’t know how they are compared to US Football or Baseball games, since I’ve never played them. I remember liking Fifa several years back, though.

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-any-soccer-video-games-as-popular-as-us-football-and-baseball-ones/319556/4 "2005-09-01T09:24:00Z")

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    - I have caught arguments online over detailed matters associated with a British video game that is titled something like “Football manager”, football in this case meaning “American” soccer. Apparently it is very popular in the UK.  
Here is the publisher’s page: [http://www.sigames.com/fm/](http://www.sigames.com/fm/)  
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