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FIFA Football 2002 (known as FIFA Soccer 2002: Major League Soccer in North America, and FIFA 2002: Road to FIFA World Cup in Japan), commonly known as FIFA 2002, is a football video game released in 2001, produced by Electronic Arts and released by EA Sports. FIFA 2002 is the ninth game in the FIFA series.

Power bars for passes were introduced, and dribbling reduced in order to attain a higher challenge level. The power bar can also be customised to suit the gamer's preference. The game also includes club emblems for many more European clubs as well as for major Dutch clubs such as PSV, AFC Ajax and Feyenoord, although there was no Dutch league of any kind (they were under the "Rest of World" header). This game also features, for the first time, the Swiss Super League, at the cost of excluding the Greek League. A card reward system licensed from Panini was also introduced where, after winning a particular competition, a star player card is unlocked. There is also a bonus game with the nations that had automatically qualified for the 2002 World Cup (France, Japan and South Korea), in which the player tries to improve the FIFA ranking of their chosen team by participating in international friendlies.

Many of the international teams in the game are not licensed (some of them down to the players' names like the Netherlands), as well as smaller countries such as Barbados, who were only given numbers as player names. To date, this was the last FIFA edition (not counting the World Cup versions) to feature the Japanese national team, since Japan Football Association would go on to concede exclusive rights to Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series. Also, this was the final FIFA edition to feature the Israel Premier League and its teams.

France and Arsenal star Thierry Henry is featured as the cover star. FIFA Football 2002 ran for 10 years as the last FIFA to have only one person as the cover star, before Lionel Messi appeared alone on FIFA 13.

Features[]

Leagues[]

Main article: List of teams in FIFA Football 2002

Rest of World[]

  • Netherlands Feyenoord
  • Turkey Galatasary
  • Bulgaria Levski Sofia
  • Slovenia Maribor Lasko
  • Greece Olympiakos

National teams[]

External links[]

Soundtrack[]

  • United States BT - Never Gonna Come Back Down (Hybrid’s Echoplex Dub)
  • United States Cirrus - Stop and Panic
  • Canada Conjure One - Redemption (England Max Graham's Dead Sea Remix)
  • Belgium DJ Sandy vs. Housetrap - Overdrive (Netherlands Junkie XL Remix)
  • England Gorillaz - 19-2000 (England Soulchild Remix)
  • Netherlands Gouryella - Tenshi
  • England Issi Noho - First Snow (England General Midi Remix)
  • England R4 - Revolution
  • Germany Schiller - Das Glockenspiel (Netherlands Tiësto Remix)
  • England Terpsichord - The Bells
  • Netherlands Tiësto - Flight 643
  • England The Edison Factor - Repeat the Sequence
  • England Vitae - Energy Flow

External links[]

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