Tracksuit Manager

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|title =

|image = Tracksuit Manager cover.jpg

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|designer = Doug Matthews

|developer = Goliath Games

|publisher = Goliath Games

|released = {{vgrelease|EU|1988}}

|genre = Sports management{{cite web | url = http://www.gamefaqs.com/cpc/941222-tracksuit-manager/data| title = Genre/release date information | publisher = GameFAQs| date = | accessdate = 2011-03-28}} (Soccer/Association football)

|modes = Single-player{{cite web | url = http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=8075&d=45&h=0| title = # of players/designer information | publisher = Game Base 64| date = | accessdate = 2011-03-28}}

|platforms = Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, ZX Spectrum

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Tracksuit Manager is a sports management video game that takes the conventional Football Manager game style from the 1980s in a various number of methods.{{cite web | url = http://www.mobygames.com/game/tracksuit-manager| title = Basic game overview | publisher = MobyGames| date = | accessdate = 2011-03-28}} It was released for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, and ZX Spectrum.

Gameplay

File:TracksuitManagerScreenshotAmstradCPC.png

The player controls an international football team who has failed to perform adequately in the 1986 FIFA World Cup and must qualify for the 1990 FIFA World Cup through the 1988 European Championships. Instead of a transfer market, the player is given a choice between 100 eligible football players and must choose from 22 of them. The matches are presented in the running commentary style of sports announcing with a small graphic depicting where the ball is. Players must qualify for the 1988 UEFA European Football Championships in West Germany.

All the famous football players like Peter Shilton and Diego Maradona are included in this game.{{cite web | url = http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/tracksuitmanager.htm| title = Player information | publisher = YRNSRY.com | date = | accessdate = 2011-03-28}} There is an England player called 'Breacher' in the game. In reality there was no recognised top flight footballer with this name. Many commentators assume that this error was due to a typo of the name of then Luton Town player Tim Breacker.

Reception

{{Video game reviews

| award1Pub = Sinclair User

| award1 = SU ClassicGame review, Sinclair User magazine, EMAP, issue 78, September 1988, page 61

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The game went to number 2 in the UK sales charts, behind Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge.{{cite web |url=http://ysrnry.co.uk/ys37.htm |title=The YS Rock'n'Roll Years - Issue 37 |website=ysrnry.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001205101800/http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/ys37.htm |archive-date=2000-12-05}}