It could be pretty good, if they got rid of the whole stop action to decide whether to break or not, and pass or shoot or not. Kinda like any hockey or soccer game, with a nice steady flow to the gameplay, with various button combinations to do different moves like wither tackle, sphere shot, venom pass, tackle slip, etc. As well, learning these moves by techcopy and levelling up would be neat.

I know in PS2 hockey games there's a steady flow, with different combinations to do a deke, shoot, pass, body check, etc. Up here in hockey country, hockey games are quite popular. I'd imagine a blitzball game would be too, amongst FF fans, if done right.