Games with a sport theme, and especially about soccer, are usually bland. The main reason is probably that sports are already games, and that a game about a game can hardly bring anything new and feel exciting.
Hystericoach is the one exception, probably because it's less about the soccer match itself than about the hysterical radio or TV journalists live commentaries. And the game is as hysterical as the worse commentaries....

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