Everyone knows that Neymar can dribble, nobody would want to get on the bad side of Sergio Ramos and Lionel Messi is Argentina's best player, but with 32 teams at this year's World Cup, impressing your friends down the pub with your football insight has become harder than ever.
To help, the team behind Football Manager have released an app, FMdB, powered by Football Manager, which includes data on more than 400,000 players from across the world of football, giving fans a quick guide to their ability, potential, contract details and position. Fans can also keep tabs on the players who are making the headlines with the app’s ‘Trending’ section and share player profiles with friends via social media.
For those who subscribe to the app, there is additional information about each players’ attributes, career history and more.
Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactive’s Studio Director said: “FMdB is the ultimate football knowledge app, essential for the info that you need ahead of what promises to be a fantastic summer of football and beyond. If you’re unsure how good the player is playing at right-back, or who the midfielder is your team is looking at in the transfer window, FMdB gives you that info at the press of a button – it’s time to be properly ITK.”
Further updates to FMdB are planned over the coming weeks and months into the start of the European football season.
FMdB is available immediately as a free download on the App Store and will be available on Google Play in the near future.
To test out FMdB, we've gone through and found the highest-rated players for all 32 teams at the Russia 2018 World Cup.
Team | Player | FMdB Rating |
---|---|---|
Argentina | Lionel Messi | 97 |
Australia | Aaron Mooy | 71 |
Belgium | Kevin De Bruyne | 91 |
Brazil | Neymar | 95 |
Colombia | James Rodriguez | 83 |
Costa Rica | Keylor Navas | 81 |
Croatia | Luka Modric | 89 |
Denmark | Christian Eriksen | 82 |
Egypt | Mohamed Salah | 86 |
England | Harry Kane | 89 |
France | Antoine Griezmann | 88 |
Germany | Manuel Neuer | 95 |
Iceland | Johann Berg Gudmundsson | 71 |
Iran | Alireza Jahanbakhsh | 67 |
Japan | Shinji Kagawa | 75 |
Mexico | Carlos Vela | 74 |
Morocco | Hakim Ziyech | 74 |
Nigeria | Victor Moses | 73 |
Panama | Luis Tejada | 63 |
Peru | Jefferson Farfan and Raul Ruidiaz | 71 |
Poland | Robert Lewandowski | 89 |
Portugal | Cristiano Ronaldo | 97 |
Russia | Mario Fernandes | 73 |
Saudi Arabia | Fahad Al-Muwallad | 60 |
Senegal | Sadio Mane | 81 |
Serbia | Nemanja Matic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic | 78 |
South Korea | Heung-Min Son | 77 |
Spain | David De Gea | 90 |
Sweden | Emil Forsberg | 76 |
Switzerland | Ricardo Rodriguez and Granit Xhaka | 73 |
Tunisia | Yohan Benalouane | 67 |
Uruguay | Luis Suarez | 84 |