Influence
Football Manager has been recognized by real-life football clubs as a source for scouting players. In 2008, Everton FC signed a deal with Sports Interactive allowing them to use the game's database to scout players and opposition.
A video documentary entitled "Football Manager: More Than Just A Game" was produced by journalism graduate and MA student Stephen Milnes and released in October 2010.
Football Manager will celebrate its twentieth birthday this summer (2012), and the people at BackStage Press are already preparing a book with title "Football Manager Stole My Life" to celebrate this remarkable milestone. Part of the book will include stories about how the game has taken over one's life.
On November 2012, Azerbaijani student Vugar Huseynzade promoted to manager of FC Baku’s reserve team after based on his success in Football Manager.
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Famous quotes containing the word influence:
“I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)
“If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.”
—Rachel Carson (20th century)
“Somewhere along the line of development we discover who we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else’s life not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)