
Your player character, if you are good enough.Eder Álvarez Balanta is a modern example, being the best defender in the game in the 20 versions, and one of the most cost-effective in 2016.He became so popular that a mobile phone provider cut the delivery time on a new phone to next-day delivery, rather than the normal two to three months, upon learning who the recipient would be. The same edition also featured Cherno Samba, a cheap player who would become one of the best a few years down the line.He became so notorious for this, they even put it on his Wikipedia page. Maxim Tsigalko in CM 01/02, the one player that almost everyone signed.The games have examples of the following tropes It is also quite simple to edit in new graphics, logos, player faces to increase immersion. It also has widespread editing support allowing people to create leagues & player sets even deeper than the game itself is built with. Part of the game's success is due to the fact that almost any real life player can be loaded into the game, no matter how unaccomplished, within an extremely deep structure that involves multiple tiers of leagues from across the planet.


The built from scratch, heavily delayed Eidos funded Championship Manager 5 was widely panned, however the series limped on until the series final release in 2010. This lead to the release of Football Manager 2005, with subsequent yearly releases and various spin-offs into console & handheld markets. In 2004 developer Sports Interactive left the Eidos publishing stable while retaining everything from Championship Manager but the name. The series began as the hugely successful Championship Manager series of the 90's and early 2000's.
