They're aware how important this game means. It will go down in history as being one of FIFA 22 Coins the most memorable ninety minutes of football to ever be played. But it will never be included in the record books.

Instead of club colours Each team is wearing Motion capture suits made by Xsens. On the touchlinethe players are sitting on laptops. Signalling devices with short range, that measure gamers' movements to the millimetre. They sit on the ground with personnel studying tablets and displaying live statistics. From thousands of miles away an animation director is carefully watching proceedings unfold on Zoom. However, this isn't part of a space age Scouting team, nor of the latest technology in coaching.

They're the developers of FIFA 22. In the very first game, EA motion-captured the live 90 minutes of a football matchby tracking the players' movements at the level of detail which can then be added to its animation database. The gaming firm looked for the big details down to the minute details, From how a full-back smacks the ball with the laces of their shoes, to how a playmaker automatically glances across their shoulders before receiving a pass.

"Ultimately, realism equals an improved game," states Gareth Eaves, senior animation director at EA who led the meeting remotely. "We have wanted to do it for a long time but the technology had not been there."

Typically, EA uses optical capture actors, actors, and the occasional superstar footballer, like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, to write new animations. However, it's a smaller area that is occupied by only two or three people at a single time - making it challenging to tackle the ball fast or move passes from one wing over to the other. It is also difficult to play with motion capture in restricted areas like one-on one dribbles, need to be made adaptable by FIFA animators into buy FUT 22 Coins free-flowing actions which ape eleven-a-side matches.