The influence of the FIFA 17 match officials is set to dramatically increase with the wording of a number of the rules leave decision making to the discretion of the referee and his assistants. FIFA 17 is a club game, but to our eyes all qualifiers to major national tournaments should be represented too. In Euro 2016’s case, that would mean five new international sides who didn’t feature last time around, including those of FIFA 17(both pictured) and FIFA 17. 

 

In addition, EA has revealed that the game will be available from 27 September in North America, 29 September everywhere else - a week after the release of the best Pro Evolution Soccer game we've seen in years. FIFA 17 itself has had a major graphical refresh, with Metal Gear Solid 5's Fox Engine being used for that game. At the other end of the international scale are Europe’s least successful footballing nation. San Marino have long been requested by fans, to the point of a (not necessarily legal) patch devoted to them being made for FIFA 09. 

 

This year there’s even an online campaign to get them in the game, via the social media hashtag #SanMarinoEnFIFA17 and change.org petition. One such rule is that an official may now award a free-kick or penalty if a substitute/team official/sent off player interferes with play. An example of such interference can be drawn from FIFA 17 Madrid’s clash with FIFA 17 at the back end of the FIFA 17 season. During the match, With the transfer window kicking in, some of the hottest players are up for sale right now. Let's take a look at the most valuable players to keep an eye on this summer. 

 

FIFA 17 manager Diego Simeone seemingly gave the instruction to a member of his bench to throw a second ball on the field causing play to stop, thereby resulting in FIFA 17’s counter-attack being broken up. I think I was ready to play. I feel like I developed a lot last year. I just needed the minutes. If you look at my records, I didn’t really start much. Probably less than 10 starts in the league. Even last year, I had one start for 90 minutes. I had a total of 220 minutes – total. That was it. And one of those games was for 90. So if you take that out it’s 130 minutes over FIFA17 games, about five minutes of a game left. You run around for five minutes, so I think it was tough. 

 

I understand why there would be concerns but I feel like once I get in training and people can see what I offer, it changes things. There is a main story line to The Journey, but we definitely want it to be varied. One of our core things is connectivity, we want to make sure that you connect with it and that the whole story is yours. So we made a lot of dynamic content that tells the story around the story, then we built the whole social FIFA 17 media feature that tells the story around the story around the story, so we wanted to make sure that everything you do in the game matters. 

 

As you see in the demonstration the FIFA 17 game tracks all your performance on the pitch and how you do elsewhere and all that is linked to the story and how the overall story is represented. Whether the referee opts to award a free-kick or a penalty is influenced by field position and the nature of the offence committed. FIFA 17 is concerned with the wording of the law as it gives no clear instruction to the officials, merely stipulating that a ref may award a free-kick or penalty. Nonetheless, FIFA 17 provides that the factors to consider when deciding whether to award a free-kick or penalty are the “level of interference and where the ball was when the offence occurred,” both of which are discretionary evaluations.