With minutes remaining, and FIFA 22 Coins the pressure of the battle saturating already exhausted feet and minds, Sanluque?o break off an unstoppable breakaway. They won 4-2. While the players whirl away in joy after the win, the Gerena group slumps on their haunches. Some shake their heads, others gaze up to heaven. They're aware how important this game means. It will go down in history as being one of the most significant two hours of football ever played. But it's unlikely to be mentioned in the record books.

Instead of club colours Each team is wearing the Xsens motion-capture suits. On the touchline, teams are sitting on laptops. Devices for short-range signalling, that track players' motion up to the millimetre. on the ground with producers who study tablets and display live data. Many thousands of miles away, an animation director is carefully watching proceedings unfold on Zoom. But this isn't the job of a space age team for scouting, or the latest innovation in coaching.

They're the designers of FIFA 22. This is the first occasion, EA motion-captured an entire 90-minute football matchby tracking the players' movements at an extremely precise level. This data could eventually be added onto its animation database.

The game publisher was looking for the biggest details down to the finer details: from how a fullback strikes the ball using their laces, to how a playmaker automatically glances across their shoulders when they receive a ball. "Ultimately being realistic is better play," claims Gareth Eaves, senior animation director at EA who was the leader of the meeting remotely. "We were looking to do this for a long time, but the technology hasn't been available."

Typically, EA uses optical capture actors and even the odd superstar footballer, like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, to write new animations. It's a little space with one or two players at one time - creating a challenge to attack the ball quickly or ping passes from one side to the other. It is also difficult to play with motion capture in restricted areas like keepie-uppies or one on-one dribbles must be transformed by FIFA animators into buy FUT 22 Coins fluid movements which mimic eleven-a-side match.