LiberoGrande

The player starts to choose one of the star players, and then a national team. Each star player, based on a real football player but with changed names, except for initials (Zinedine Zidane is Zenon Zadkine, for instance) is rated in both ball skill, speed and shooting abilities.

In addition to the original arcade mode, the home release adds an International mode (basically, the FIFA World Cup format), a league competition (up to eight star players/teams), which can be all human controlled and a skills mode where the player has to complete several training ground tasks such as hitting a target floating in the goal mouth or hitting an area from distance.

The player roster in the arcade version consists of:

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{{Fs player|no=|nat=BRA|pos=|name=Raimundo}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=NED|pos=|name=Rudolf de Buys}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=|name=Antonio Del Pacino}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=FRA|pos=|name=Zenon Zadkine}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=JPN|pos=|name=Naoki Hidaka}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=CMR|pos=|name=Philippe Empson}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ENG|pos=|name=Alfred Shaffer}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ARG|pos=|name=Gaston Balmaceda}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=COL|pos=|name=Cornelio Valencia}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=GER|pos=|name=Jordan Krüger}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=|name=Raffaello Balbo}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=NED|pos=|name=Dirk Berlarge}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=GER|pos=|name=Oswald Bismarck}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=|name=Patrizio Mazzini}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=BRA|pos=|name=Richard Castro}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=GER|pos=|name=Ajax Möbius}}

{{Fs mid}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ROU|pos=|name=Godwin Hasdeu}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ESP|pos=|name=Renato Gallegos}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=CRO|pos=|name=Deron Slojacek}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=WAL|pos=|name=Robin Garrick}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=SER|pos=|name=Dorman Smixolovic}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ITA|pos=|name=Gregorio Zonaras}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=USA|pos=|name=Arnold Lang}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=BRA|pos=|name=Roland}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=JPN|pos=|name=Minoru Kai}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=FRA|pos=|name=Edgard Cailaux}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ENG|pos=|name=Powel Gardner}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=LBR|pos=|name=Gerald Wells}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=NED|pos=|name=Ruprech Goes}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ARG|pos=|name=David Magellan}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs player|no=|nat=FRA|pos=|name=Maurice Poulenc}} (Hidden player)

{{Fs end}}

There is a total of 48 national teams, but only 32 of them to choose from, depending on which version:

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North America

• {{fb|CAN}}^a
• {{fb|JAM}}^b
• {{fb|MEX}}
• {{fb|USA}}

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South America

• {{fb|ARG}}
• {{fb|BRA}}
• {{fb|CHI}}
• {{fb|COL}}
• {{fb|PAR}}^ab
• {{fb|URU}}^a

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Africa

• {{fb|CMR}}
• {{fb|MAR}}^b
• {{fb|NGA}}
• {{fb|RSA}}^b
• {{fb|TUN}}^b

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Europe

• {{fb|AUT}}
• {{fb|BEL}}
• {{fb|BUL}}^bc
• {{fb|CRO}}^bc
• {{fb|CZE}}^a
• {{fb|DEN}}
• {{fb|ENG}}
• {{fb|FRA}}
• {{fb|GER}}
• {{fb|GRE}}^a
• {{fb|HUN}}^c
• {{fb|ITA}}
• {{fb|NED}}
• {{fb|NOR}}
• {{fb|POL}}^c
• {{fb|POR}}
• {{fb|IRL}}^ac
• {{fb|ROU}}^bc
• {{fb|RUS}}^c
• {{fb|SCO}}^bc
• {{fb|ESP}}
• {{fb|SWE}}^ac
• {{fb|SUI}}^c
• {{fb|YUG}}^bc

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Asia

• {{fb|TPE}}^a
• {{fb|HKG}}^a
• {{fb|IRN}}^b
• {{fb|JPN}}
• {{fb|MYS}}^a
• {{fb|KSA}}^ab
• {{fb|KOR}}

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^a Only playable in the Arcade version

^b Only playable in the Japanese version

^c Only playable in the PAL version

A sequel, LiberoGrande 2 (known as LiberoGrande International in Europe) was released for PlayStation in Europe and Japan only, but with less success than the first title.

A playable demo of the game was included in Ridge Racer Turbo (Ridge Racer Hi-Spec in Europe), which was sold with Ridge Racer Type 4. The demo includes three players (Zenon Zadkine, Alfred Shaffer and Jordan Krüger) and three teams (England, France and Italy), which a person could use to play a ten-minute game.

{{Video game reviews

|GR = 81%{{cite web|url=https://www.gamerankings.com/ps/197784-libero-grande/index.html|title=Libero Grande|website=GameRankings|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=2018-01-07}}

|GSpot = 8.1/10{{cite web|url=https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/libero-grande-import-review/1900-2548132/|author=James Mielke|title=Libero Grande (Import) Review|website=GameSpot|publisher=CBS Interactive|date=1998-12-30|accessdate=2018-01-07|archive-date=2018-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107174923/https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/libero-grande-import-review/1900-2548132/|url-status=live}}

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In Japan, Game Machine listed LiberoGrande on their February 15, 1998 issue as being the seventh most-successful arcade game of the month.{{cite magazine|title=Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - TVゲーム機ーソフトウェア (Video Game Software)|magazine=Game Machine|issue=558|publisher=Amusement Press, Inc.|date=15 February 1998|page=21|lang=ja}}

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