Meyer is the sort of player you can pitch into a tough game and can hold up the ball, run with it and lay-it off to a team-mate. You may not want to expose him against Man City or even West Brom in the first season, but with FIFA 14 placing a greater emphasis on technical skills, he’s exactly the kind of player you should be grooming in your side.Ī playmaker / attacking midfielder with excellent agility and balance stats, M. His current OVR rating in FIFA is a criminally low 63, but with a potential OVR of 86 and current passing, ball control and dribbling stats crossing 70, he’s definitely one that’s in line for steep improvements in Career mode. Manchester United’s 18-year-old Belgian prodigy has been getting rave reviews in the last three months by anyone who has watched United play. The selection criteria is simple – the player must be 18 or younger, and the potential OVR rating should be 86 or above. The new Global Transfer Network is a welcome addition to scouting and managing your potential recruits, but today we’ll look at something much easier: the best ‘future’ stars in FIFA 14, players that you can buy right at the start of your FIFA 14 game to groom into superstars. When contacted by AFP, a senior official in the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) dismissed any suggestion the tournament could be called off as “fake news”.So you’ve got your copy of FIFA 14 and you’re getting down to the tricky business of sorting out your team’s transfers at the start of Career mode.
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The CAF update said its president, Patrice Motsepe, had been in discussions with the Cameroonian government “on sanitary approach and Covid-19 protocols”. However, the pandemic would appear to pose a far bigger threat to the successful staging of the tournament than concerns about the host nation’s readiness. The organisation refused to comment on the ECA threat when contacted by AFP but, in an update on its website, said that Mosengo-Omba “urged everyone to work around the clock to ensure that everything is in place for the opening game”. are unmanageable,” added the ECA, whose chairman is Qatar’s Nasser al-Khelaifi, also the president of PSG.ĬAF general secretary Veron Mosengo-Omba is currently in Cameroon overseeing final preparations for the delayed tournament. “For certain clubs expected to release players, including English and French clubs, domestic competition matches are due to take place up until early January and hence the overlap of the 2022 AFCON release dates. players (should) not be released for international duty”.Ĭlubs could lose players who are called up for the 24-team tournament from as early as December 27, which is particularly problematic for those based in England, where there is a busy schedule of matches over the holiday period in late December and early January.
The ECA also raised concerns about the danger of players being unavailable for even longer periods due to the potential for travel restrictions or mandatory quarantine being introduced, in particular in relation to the emerging threat posed by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.Īccording to FIFA’s rules for the release of players for international duty during the pandemic, clubs can retain players if “there is a mandatory quarantine of at least five days on arrival” in the place “where a national team match is supposed to take place” or when the player returns to his club.Īn executive board meeting of the ECA – which represents almost 250 European clubs – on Dec 2 said these principles “must be strictly respected”, according to the letter sent to FIFA Deputy Secretary General Mattias Grafstroem. Many of Africa’s leading players are based at clubs in Europe, including Liverpool duo Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, Riyad Mahrez of Manchester City, Achraf Hakimi and Idrissa Gana Gueye of Paris Saint-Germain. The Cup of Nations, which was already postponed last year due to the health crisis, is due to start in Cameroon on Jan 9 and run until Feb 6.
“With regards to applicable protocols, as far as we are aware, CAF (the Confederation of African football) has not yet made available a suitable medical and operational protocol for the AFCON tournament, in the absence of which clubs will not be able to release players for the tournament,” the ECA told football’s world governing body. The European Club Association, which represents leading clubs across the continent, made its concerns known to FIFA in a letter seen by AFP.
PARIS: Europe’s top clubs are threatening not to release players for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon over fears surrounding its Covid-19 health protocol.
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