I didn't like this either. I felt that the stats were ... unbalenced. It didn't feel 'realistic'.. or should I say perhaps.. "It didn't feel like a well simulated sporting game within the framework of the FFX engine."

I think they could have done better with it.

YOUR IN WATER.. so why not be able to fire the ball upwards or downwards?

There was a lot of things they could have added to it. I only played the main first game ... the world cup, and then exparamented with it a little but not in my game I was working through.