Attacking: Running

It is very important to know how and when to control your players to run. If you want to attack, you need people to run up for offensive measure. We all know the importance of making runs when we saw last night match between Spain vs Germany.



Now im going to share the direction to make your players run. There are 2 direction which is direct and indirect.



Direct:



Direct means you point your movement key base on where the position of the players that you want to run. For example:





So by actually pointing towards the midfielder and the winger, they will start to run into their respective position. This is what most of us always do.



Indirect:



For indirect, instead of pressing the run button which is Q on keyboard for indirect you press Q to the direction of the outside line. For example,






If you press Q once, the winger will be running first. But if you press Q twice, the winger and striker will run too. So this is indirect Q.



This are the 2 common direction that can be use to control your players to run nicely. Try experiment with it to get the right timing for your own play ^^

Mentality: Its Your Brain That Matters

In mentality section, we will discuss the brain part of the game. This is the hardest part to train since it requires a lot of understanding through practice and experience. But dont worry. That is why The FIFA Blog is here for you ^^




Normally we have the perception that those who can perform amazing movement such as Ronaldo dribbling skills or Lampard amazing long shot will win the game. Like for example if you can do "360" movement or unblockable crosses its consider as an amazing thing. But unfortunately football doesnt just revolve on 1 thing. It involves everything.




I learn this during WCG Grand Final 05 in Singapore. In the quarter final im going against Troll from Austria. He is very strong and he beat Gel (Malaysia No.1) in the group stage eventually top the group. Everyone regard him as the favourite of the tournament because his ability to do his crosses almost 100%.




During the quarter finals, i already had a plan in my mind to play mind games with him. Since i know he depends a lot in his crosses, i just let him come in the danger zone and just wait to block his crosses. Everytime i saw his ready to do his cross, i start my defensive movement to stop him. The 1st game prove that my strategies work when i beat him. But he was also unfortunate because i manage to injured his Henry accidentally. France without Henry is useless.



But in the 2nd game, his crosses still needs to be feared when he manage to trash me 5-1. Luckily it was best of 3 games. So the 3rd game was the decider. He was leading with 2 goals in the 1st half then an unfortunate event happen to me when my Joe Cole got send off for dangerous sliding. Yup im playing with 10 men now. But i've already practice playing with 10 men before in Malaysia because during that time i am well known to be so aggressive that i always get red card in a match.



So i still maintain the same way to defend his crosses thus making him not able to slot any more goals pass my goal. And i revert into an counter attacking tactic everytime he fail to do his crosses. This in the end put him under pressure and he started to do lots of mistakes in the end when i slot my 1st goal in the 2nd half. Then in the last min i manage to get an equalizer goal!



We continue into the extra time with silver goal ruling. From his play he is starting to get frustrated on the draw and start to commit lots of people to attack. And he keeps on doing the same crosses trick which i gladly anticipate to block. He keep on repeating the same cross on and on and on eventhough he know he cant score. It looks like he just had a mind block and i took full advantage of this when i slot the winning goal in extra time. Again i was playing with 10 men.




So as you can see it is not what you can do that matters. Its what your brain can do that matters. So when you play always remember that life dont always go to the strongest or fastest man, but often the man who win is the man who THINKS he can!



So play beautiful football ^^

Defending: Goalie

In defending section, we will cover all the stuff about defending. Although i am not really that good in this area but at least i can still help with the basic.



I believe everyone here have undergo a situation where you have to defend 1 on 1 or a situation where it is most likely you gonna concede. And the only one who can stop you from concede any goal is your GK. But i believe everyone can see that sometimes they are not reliable as well.



Well here is some trick that i wanna share with you using graphics below:

1 on 1 Situation

During 1 on 1 situation or similar situation to this, you must be ready to use your GK as your last resort. It is very important to anticipate the speed and the position of the striker. The striker is most dangerous when he is walking because this show that your opponent is anticipating any movement from your GK. So be very careful when he is walking.




Now when the striker is this near to your box, it is time to bring out your GK. When you bring out your GK, do not bring him out from the small box yet. At this moment you will be playing mind games with him. Plus by keeping your GK in the small box it will reduce the chances for the striker to score because you are closing the angle for him to shoot. But if you come out of the box and the striker is still a distance from your GK, its gonna be a piece of cake for the striker to score.

Anticipation Time

When your GK is about to come out from the small box, try to anticipate the striker movement. See is he going to shoot or still moving forward. If he still moving forward then bring out your GK all the way to grab the ball. If the striker wanna shoot, pull back your GK to cover up the space expose at the far post. This should be enough to stop a few goals from going in.



Now there are disadvantage by using this method. If the striker do a dummy shot then most probably it will result in a goal in the end. Even the striker can also do a chip shot if your opponent is good at it. But all of this can be minimize by doing a lot of practice using this method. You might be expecting a few free goals when you 1st started using this method but once you've understand the concept you can make Julio Cesar into Buffon in no time. You can also stop any other common finishing by using this concept as well if you've already understand the concept.



In the end practice makes perfect. So play beautiful football ^^

Attacking: Mix Your Passes

In attacking section, we will discuss on the attacking area obviously.



Now some of us has this feeling that playing long ball is consider as cheap shot. Because of this we seldom do long ball and play more passes on the ground. Saying that its beautiful football to play without long ball and makes it more realistic.


I dont wanna debate on beautiful football because everyone has its own opinion about this issue. But what i would like to share is the benefit of mixing your passes.


Normally when we play just with ground passes, formation such as 433 and 424 can easily pressure the defence thus producing passing mistakes. So the only way to get out of this pressuring trap is to do a long ball to your midfielder.

424 Attackers Pressuring The Defense

It seems like there is no way out for the defender rite. The only way out against 424 is to play a longball to the midfielder.

1 Longball And You Free Yourself

As you can see, just by doing 1 simple long ball, you are set to demolish 424 defense with 6 attackers vs 6 defender. Now if you mix your passes correctly, you will be able to launch a successful attack against the defender even before they can react to your longball.

Mixing Up Passes And You Just Unleash A Deadly Attack

Just applying something simple to your play, you've just manage to punish any defensive mistake. If just focus on one type of passes, it is almost unlikely to do the above scenario. Besides that, mixing up passes does create what we so call beautiful football.


Hope this help everyone to understand the importance of mixing up your passes. So play attacking football ^^

New Structure For Better Quality

Starting from today, The FIFA Blog will be using a new structure. This is to ensure that The FIFA Blog will be able to produce article daily and to satisfied the readers need. This is also to thanks all the readers who have been supporting the blog.



The new structure is as follow:

• Monday:Motivation
• Tueday: Attacking
• Wednesday: Defending
• Thursday: Mentality
• Friday: Discussion And Debate

So by implementing this new structure, this will ensure The FIFA Blog to meets its 1st objective which is to give the latest and exciting tips and tricks for FIFA. At the same time, The FIFA Blog will be able to cover all aspect of the game. So no part will be left out.



Hopefully this will help all the players to improve more of their gameplay. Last word, play beautiful football! ^^

Attacking: Loopholes

Everybody likes to play attacking style of football rite? We love to see fast play, nice passes and deadly finishing. When we get the ball the only thing we think is the goal. If you like to do such thing, here is a tip that might make ur wishes come to true.


A good gamer is a gamer who knows how to find loopholes in their opponent's defence. Although every opponent have their own defending style, but every formation have their loopholes as well.


For example:

The arrow indicating the loopholes

As you can see 442 have loopholes in between their players. Passes that revolves around this loopholes is very hard to def because it is their natural weakness. That is why formation like 433 can easily penetrate 442 because their natural position revolves around 442 loopholes.

433 position are naturally at 442 loopholes

Every formation have different loopholes. Passes that you normally do against 442 doesnt really work against 433 because of different loopholes. Passes that you normally do against 433 also doesnt work on 442. That is why it is very important to understand every formation advantage and disadvantage.



So to be a good gamer you must understand both your opponent and yourself. With this knowledge, any defense in the world even if its like a brick of wall you can penetrate easily.


So play attacking football! ^^

Spotgamers

In Malaysia, currently we have a few medias who actually doing coverage about gaming. But sadly there not much exposure done for the gamers. So the gamers are always left out and became unknown to the public. This in the end harm their way to attain sponsorship because there are not much publicity done for the gamers.


So this is where Spotgamers come around. Spotgamers- Your Delicious Gamers News, is the only online media in Malaysia that only focus on gamers. Imagine MTV+ESPN+E! Entertainment channel. Spotgamers going to interview gamers, do match review, write hot gossips and hot stories, give coverage to tournament and much much more. By doing this, Spotgamers hope that this will allow more exposure for gamers in Malaysia to be known to the community.



For more info about this, why dont we go to their website at http://spotgamers.blogspot.com ^^

WCG And CEL Games Prelim

For some reason, it seems that this year there are just tons of tourney for us to grab. There are so much improvement and happening every year. It is a good positive sign for the gaming community.


This weekend itself, we gonna have 2 major tourney in Malaysia which involve FIFA which is WCG Final and CEL Games. Here are the dates for each tourney:



CEL Games:

21st June: Tbun, Wangsa Maju, KL
28th June: FTZ Asia.net, SS15 Subang Jaya
11th/12th July: Midvalley Megamall, KL (Prelim and Final)


WCG Malaysia:

College Preliminaries

APIIT College TPM
Date: 21st June, 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: thegekkostate@gmail.com

KLMUC (Cosmopoint) Jln Sultan Ismail
Date: 28th June, 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Cik Aminah from Student Services

KDU College
Date: 30th June 2008, Monday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Ms. Stephanie, Student Services

MMU Cyberjaya
Date: 4th July 2008, Friday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Eddie, kumhon@gmail.com

Sunway University College
Date: 28th July 2008, Monday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008 & Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Victor, 012-9777519

Cyber Cafe Preliminaries

EXC Cafe, Pandan Perdana
Date: 21st June 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008
Register with: Kong, 0126099276
Address: NO 9-GM, Jln Perdana 4/1 , Pandan Perdana, 55300 Cheras KL

EXC Cafe, Pudu
Date: 29th June 2008, Sunday
Games: Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Kong, 0126099276
Address: NO 14 , Lorong Brunei Dua, Off Jalan Pudu, 55100 KL

EXC Cafe, Seri Kembangan
Date: 12th July 2008, Saturday
Games: FIFA Soccer 2008
Register with: Kong, 0126099276
Address: NO 30-1, Jln 4/1, Tmn Bukit Serdang, Seksyen 4, Seri Kembangan, Selangor

EXC Cafe, Kuchai Lama
Date: 19th July 2008, Saturday
Games: Counter-Strike 1.6
Register with: Kong, 0126099276



Different than CEL Games, WCG also doing prelim at colleges around Klang Valley. So for those of you who are still studying at college, lucky you!


For more info about registration and other stuff you can login to each respective website at my.worldcybergames.com and www.celgames.com.my

Clan?

What is the role of a clan?


Why do people actually create clans? Izzit to dominate the gaming scene? To be the best? To be in a gang? To encourage more competitive gaming? Or To be gay with each other?


Now the reason of a clan being created can be varied. It can either be all of the above or none of the above or might the last one on the above. lol


But what i know is clan was created by a group of gamers who play the same game or might have different division of game as well.


For me, the clan role in the gaming community is to ensure that the gaming community will remain strong,healthy and growing or you can say productive.


For example, in the previous years there was hardly any tournament around. Even if there was a tournament, its pretty hard to fill it up the slot. Imagine if you are not in a clan, you alone will not do much help for the tournament itself. But when your in a clan, you go there as group and thus can confirm that at least 10 spots will be fill.


Now this is only if 1 clan. If we have 2-3 clan? Then up to 30 spots can be fill up easily. So to get the spots fill easily will not be hard anymore. Plus the clan in Malaysia are not picky as well. Even small tourney and oversea tourney we still join as well. For example last year there was a FIFA tourney in Dotcom8. Up to almost 60++ ppl turn up in such a small tourney! Even this year MMU Cyberjaya held their own cybergames tourney and it was a success. Thats show how we trully appreciate the organizer effort to held a tourney.


Plus being in a clan is fun! Your in a group with the same people who have the same interest with you. You can share skills, joke fool around or even go to karaoke together. Even when times was hard in the gaming scene we all can still stand together because everyone is supporting each other. If you were playing alone, you dont have anyone to support you or to motivate when you were down. Many people said that gamers are not good in communication skills. But if you were in a clan, this will help you tremendously because you have to interact with your clanmate as well. For me, although i am from an english speaking family but I learn how to speak english better because im in a clan. And currently starting to pick up some chinese language as well. Ni Hen Piao Liang, Wo Ai Ni. LOL


And clan will produce great gamers as well because you will be able to practice and share skills together with your clanmate. This you can see from other clans as well where most of the top gamers in Malaysia are from a clan. Not just in Malaysia but the whole world as well. This will help the gaming community to produce a world class gamer that everyone in the world would look up to.


Although its good that all clan will always participate in any tourney, but to be more professional the clan must also give back something to the gaming community as well.


For example, W|nDs has develop our very own W|nDs Youth Academy which would teach the younger generation how to play FIFA. Plus W|nDs has also develop a policy where from now on we are going to accept players only from the W|nDs Youth Academy. So we will not going to accept anyone above 21 at the moment. With this youth academy. we can confirm that there the tradition will never die after the veteran has retired one day. So there will always be a streamline for new blood.


Another example is The FIFA Blog which i have created to share my knowledge in FIFA to the public. You guys can check it out at rinieramli.blogspot.com.


So this is how the gaming clan help the gaming community by making it strong,healthy and growing or you can say productive. The clans are not here to dominate but rather to set up a benchmark standard for others to follow. At the same time gaming clans in Malaysia must also find out ways to help the gaming community beside joining tourney. Because our community is not big, we must be creative and find out ways to make our gaming community the best in the world.


So i hope that this will clear things out about our existence here as a clan. Although there are a sign of dominance of a certain clan in the gaming community, we are here to help the gaming community, not to destroy it. Just like Eminem lyrics in his song Toy Soldier " Why must we destroy the things we help build?"


And I hope that this will encourage more gamers to create their own clan as well. Come together we will change the gaming community and make our gaming community the best in the world. Together we are strong! ^^

Computex 08-Part 2

Sorry for the long delay. There are just tons of thing i need to catch up since i came back from Taipei. Anyway here is the moment that you have been waiting for... pics!!






Amazing




Trying Guitar Hero in 3D




Sorry man cant give you the motherboard freely.lol




Outside




Our organizer and frens




Night in Taiwan




AMD guys.




dance




another dance




With Abit Strongman




Cosplay




errr... hehe...




Flying without wings.




Cheerleader




Cosplay again.



The Crowd




Guy and girls




Being gay for a moment~ lol




Taipei 101




Dog show




Playing on stage




With the emcee


Orait thats all folks! Sorry i cant show too many show girls pics because it would be off topic from The FIFA Blog. LOL But if you guys would like to see more can always get it from my friendster.



So what do i learn from this experience? I learn no matter where you are in this world, the most important and the only thing you need to do is to...


Smile ^^




Looks like a real footballer eh? lol

Taipei Computex 2008

Hi guys! Reporting in from Taipei, Taiwan. As you may know previously i've received invitation from Abit to show my skills in FIFA during Computex 2008 to help promote their event. Computex is the 2nd largest IT event in the world. It is where all of the IT developer in the world meet up and show off their latest prod and tech.



One thing that i notice about Taiwan is.. Taiwan is so piao liang!(beautiful). They have such cozy weather with a little bit rain here and there but i've never experience heavy rain yet. Its kinda foggy here as well so its kinda cool as well. Thought that i wanna wear a jacket but after i saw that none of them wear any jacket well i have to control macho lar and tahan the cold. lol



Oopss before i run away too far from the main topic of this blog(which is FIFA), for the 1st time in the history of gaming, a FIFA clan logo in Malaysia has been proudly presented here at Computex. Here is the pics:



Clan logo



Abit booth


W|nDs Logo


Computex Building


This shows that W|nDs has manage to make a breakthrough to oversea and being recognized as one of the top FIFA clan in Asia. We hope that from this breakthrough it will motivate others to work hard as well as to encourage more sponsoring activity here in Malaysia.


Ok guys thts all from now! Have to do some set up for tomorrow. Will update about this later on ^^

WCG Kick Off 08 FIFA Result

After a gruel-ling 2 days battle at Lowyat Plaza, here are the top 4:



1. [W|nDs] Vin
2. [W|nDs] A13x
3. [W|nDs] Loonatic
4. [MyFES] Warrior




On the 2nd day, the semi final commence. The results are:




[W|nDs] Vin beat [MyFES] Warrior
[W|nDs] Loonatic beat [W|nDs] A13x




Then for the finals it was a very exciting match. In the 1st game Loonatic was leading 2-0. With an advantage goals he came into the 2nd game stronger and manage to get a goal in the 1st half to make it harder for Vin . But in the 2nd half Vin change his formation to 4-3-3 and started to destroy Loonatic defence. In the end Vin made a complete comeback by winning 4-1. So Vin will be playing Si_Jali for the title defense.




In the title defense match, it was a very tight game. Both player were using Barcelona. It seems that the game is base on who does the 1st mistake for each gamer are playing with almost an equal skill level. Suddenly Si_Jali manage to counter and pass the ball to his striker. The striker was obviously could not go into the box because he was not in a good position to go for a 1 on 1 chance. So he waited and run up to the corner flag and did a cross into the box. It seems that there were no one in the box.. but suddenly Henry was running from outside the box and manage to get into the box just went the ball arrive... and head it in! The 1st game ended with Si_Jali leading by 1 goal advantage.





The 2nd game commence and it was still pretty tight. It seems that both are pretty good in defending and canceling out each other. But during the attack, Vin manage to get the ball but being under pressure Si_Jali manage to grab the ball back and from a tight angle tried to do a fast volley near the post.. the ball was so powerful that it look like it went over the bar.. but it went in instead! Lucky Si_Jali again. But Vin retaliate very fast launching a nice counter ball to set his striker free ruining Si_Jali defense and launch a quick low cross to another striker to score. A great respond to make a comeback. 1- 1 now. The game was still as intense as it was earlier. Both are still canceling out each other. In the end, Si_Jali won the game by an aggregate of 2-1.





So this mean that Si_Jali will be representing Malaysia again to Singapore for the World Cyber Games Asia 2008. It was such a great tournament and it was good experience for everyone who joined the tournament. Hope that everyone will keep on supporting the local FIFA scene as well.




Last word, Majulah E-Sukan Untuk Kami Dan Negara! ^^