Flick ball over: Press the Right Analog-stick towards the nearest
opponent.
Flick ball into a space: Press the Right Analog-stick away from the
nearest opponent.
Bicycle kick over your head: Press the Right Analog-stick in the
opposite direction that you are facing.
Hint: First touch moves (ground):
Nutmeg: Press the Right Analog-stick towards the nearest opponent.
Flick the ball into a space: Press the Right Analog-stick away from
the nearest opponent.
A nutmeg, but with eventual tackle: Press the Right Analog-stick in
the opposite direction that you are facing.
Hint: Free kick: In other to get a good free kick, you must stop the meter at the
green spot and the ball must curved to fool the keeper. There is no need to
bend the ball, because it bends itself. If you bend it, you will miss the
goal. The meter must stop near the green spot. Just aim the ball by the side
of keeper slightly to the right of your screen. There is no need to bend the
ball and take the free kick. Try this in practice mode.
To score a free kick, put the target in the top corner of the side of the
goal that the wall is standing in front of. Make sure that you do not press Spin
and that the spin target is in the dead center of the ball. Put a fair
amount of power in, but do not go near there. Also, make sure the accuracy
is in the middle of the green. The ball will shoot over the wall and into
the top corner.
Hint: Restore physical stats: Save the game after a career mode game. Quit, then reload the
saved game to increase the physicals stats of your players.
Hint: Easy goals: You can score easy goals by crossing from the side and pressing B
for a bicycle kick/header (90% success rate).
Swap sides and sabotage your opponent's line up. Take off the king-pins,
put center backs up front, etc. Then, resume control of your original team
again and continue playing.
To easily fake the goalie out on the opposite team, press Black.
The goalie will dive to a ball that is not there. Then, make a left or a
right and press Y. Do not press B or the ball will go in an
unwanted place.
Move the Right Analog-stick slightly towards you then immediately
press B. You will be able to score a beautiful goal from about 30
meters with some nice action.
Select a good corner kicker (Pires, Beckham, Paul Scholes, etc.). Change
your formation to 4-3-3 and when you get a corner you should see a striker
on the spot for penalties .Get the shooter to aim there and try to hit the
green spot on the bar. Once he kicks ,the keeper should come out to try to
get the ball, but your striker will shoot a goal that he should get into the
back of the net about 70% of the time. Note: This trick may not work if the
other side uses a 3-5-2, as a defender will catch it . Nonetheless, this
trick is very useful when you are a goal down or near full time.
To score an easy goal from a penalty, just tap B with no direction
pressed. You will nearly always score.
Use the following trick to score from the half way line. Take the kick
off and move the player with the ball into the opposing half. Quickly press Right
Analog-stick Away to flick the ball up and shoot. Note: Make sure you
are not running. This is difficult to master, but if done correctly the ball
will crash into the net off the bar. It is the best way to defeat someone on
Xbox Live.
When taking a corner, choose "Driven" mode. Then, press Shoot
and move the free player to the edge of the penalty area, where the
semi-circle meets the box. As soon as the corner is taken, move in the
direction of the goal, and press Shoot so that the bar is a third lit
up. This does not work every time, but it is the best way to score from a
corner.
To score an easy goal, run directly up to the goalkeeper. Hold L
and tap B. You should see that the ball has gone in the net for a
goal.
Hint: Easy wins: If your rating is higher than the opponent, you can simulate the
match and win about 75% of the time.
Hint: Take over simulated match: When simulating a game in career or any other mode, you can jump
into the action at any time by pressing A and selecting
"Yes". After that, you will be sent to the pick kits screen. The
match will not start from the beginning. If you were losing, quit the game
and restart by playing it manually, as the team you are against may be
stronger. You cannot go back to the simulation screen after you intervened.
You must quit and restart.
Hint: Be Celtic or Rangers in career mode: When you first try to start a career in Region 1, you will notice
that you cannot be Celtic or Rangers. However, if you select
"Back" then go in again several times, Celtic and Rangers will
appear at the selection screen.
Before you start a career, save your FIFA team as a fairly good team
(about 3.5* or 4*). Then, go into career mode. Hopefully you will be able to
start as Celtic or Rangers. Choose Celtic, and win everything possible that
season, the Scottish Premier, and Scottish Cup. Then at the end of the
season, your chosen FIFA team will be there for the taking.
Hint: Changing teams in
category: When you start a new season and cannot find the team, go back
then enter that category again. The teams will change.
Hint: Team selection in career mode: If you cannot find your team in a region in career mode, choose
that team as your "Own Team" in your profile in My FIFA 2005. You
will then find that team listed first in its current region.
If you cannot find a FA Premier League team such as Arsenal or Manchester
United in Region 1 in career mode, it is because you are not a high star
manager. Teams like this will probably want at least a two and a half star
manager or a one and a half star manager with a very good win percentage. If
you are just starting a new career, try taking a team either from the
Scottish Premier League, such as Celtic or from the Football League 1 or 2.
Hint: Strong team: To play with a great team on career mode, first choose your
favorite team on the beginning screen. Then, go to the player creation
screen. Create the players that you want or need. At the team options
screen, send them to your team, then go to career mode. In the screen that
appears before the game (squad and formation screen), make the necessary
substitutions. This is an easy way to play on professional or world class
level, and give your players all the needed stats.
This trick works well in career mode, but is extremely time consuming.
Create yourself, and up to two other fielders. Place yourself on any team
that has a rating of half a star or one star (for example, Chattertown in
Football League 2). After doing this, release the best players on that team,
keeping only enough players to have 18. Create a perfect goalie to keep on
your roster. Next, create about fifteen goalies that are perfect, and make
sure to set their year of birth to 1960. By doing this, they are all 44
years old and will retire at the end of the season. After doing all this,
choose the team that you put the players on as "Your Team". By
doing this, when you go into career mode they will be the first team in the
list. Select that team then go ahead and start career mode. When you start,
go directly to the transfer market. Once there, trade away as many of the
old perfect goalies that you have. You will get about 32,000 to 35,000 for
each goalie in transfer points. This will leave you with about 250,000 to
300,000 transfer points at the end. You can take that money and buy the best
players so that your team will be stacked from the start of career mode. The
only snag is that besides the perfect goalie you created for yourself to
keep, you will have to keep two of the old goalies. This is acceptable,
because when they retire you will get scouted players that are extremely
good.
Hint: Buying players: Note: Make sure you save your career before attempting this. When
you are in the transfer market in career mode, and a player will not let you
buy him, exit career mode and load it up again. Sometimes he might let you
buy him this time around. Otherwise, you may have to become a better
manager.
Hint: Recommended players: Kieron Dyer might only be four and half stars, but is a lot
better. He can run past anyone and is well worth buying.
Hint: Skip music/EA Trax: Click the Right Analog-stick to skip the current playing
song. This can be done in every screen that is playing the EA Trax, except
during loading and saving the game.
Hint: My FIFA store points: Complete the following tasks to earn the corresponding number of
points at the My FIFA store.
Go To Career Mode: 1,000 points
Go To Jukebox: 1,000 points
Go To Practice Mode: 1,000 points
Go To Set Pieces Screen: 1,000 points
Go To Tournament Creator Mode: 1,000 points
Go To Tournament Mode: 1,000 points
5 Game Win Streak (Career): 2,000 points
Beat a 5 star team: 2,000 points
Beat a Rival Team: 2,000 points
Get a Clean Sheet: 2,000 points
Play a Football Fusion match: 2,000 points
Qualify For Europe: 4,000 points
Play Online: 4,000 points
Create a Player: 6,000 points
Get Your Team Promoted: 6,000 points
Win The MLS Open Cup: 6,000 points
Score a Hat Trick: 6,000 points
Win a Match with a National Team: 6,000 points
Win a PK Shootout: 6,000 points
Win by 5 + Goals: 6,000 points
Win The Austrian OFB Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Austrian Bundesliga: 6,000 points
Win The Belgian FA Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Belgian League: 6,000 points
Win The Brazilian Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Brazilian League: 6,000 points
Win The LDV Vans Trophy (England): 6,000 points
Win The Community Shield (England): 6,000 points
Win The Supercopa (Spain): 6,000 points
Win The Copa de España (Spain): 6,000 points
Win The Coppa Nazionale (Italy): 6,000 points
Win The Coupe de France: 6,000 points
Win The Coupe de la Ligue (France): 6,000 points
Win The DONG Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Danish Superligaen: 6,000 points
Win The Deutscher Pokal (Germany): 6,000 points
Win The Dt. Super-Cup (Germany): 6,000 points
Win The Dutch Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Dutch Eredivisie: 6,000 points
Win The ECC: 6,000 points
Win The EFA: 6,000 points
Win Football League Champ: 6,000 points
Win Football League One: 6,000 points
Win Football League Two: 6,000 points
Win The European Super Cup: 6,000 points
Win The English Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Scottish FA Cup: 6,000 points
Win The FA Premier League: 6,000 points
Win The German Bundesliga 1: 6,000 points
Win The German Bundesliga 2: 6,000 points
Win The K-League: 6,000 points
Win The League Cup (England): 6,000 points
Win French Division 1: 6,000 points
Win The French Division 2: 6,000 points
Win The Mexican Apertura: 6,000 points
Win The MLS: 6,000 points
Win The Norwegian FA Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Norwegian Tippeligaen: 6,000 points
Win The Portuguese Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Portuguese SuperLiga: 6,000 points
Win The Scottish Premier League: 6,000 points
Win The Italian Serie A: 6,000 points
Win The Italian Serie B: 6,000 points
Win The Spanish Primera: 6,000 points
Win The Spanish Segunda: 6,000 points
Win The Supercoppa Nazionale (Italy): 6,000 points
Win The Swedish Allsvenskan: 6,000 points
Win The Swedish Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Swiss Axpo Super League: 6,000 points
Win The Swiss Cup: 6,000 points
Win The Trophée Champions (France): 6,000 points
10 Game Win Streak (Career): 6,000 points
Win The Americas Club Championship: 6,000 points
Win The Mexican Clausura: 6,000 points
Win The Copa del Rey: 6,000 points
Score a goal with a created player: 8,000 points
Complete career mode: 8,000 points
Become a 5 star manager: 10,000 points
Hint: Club ranking: The following is a list of the clubs in order of overall ability.
Use the top teams as your opponents in created leagues and tournaments to
test your ability at World Class level, or use the bottom teams for easy
training and cup winning.
