Fra computerspil til fodbold: en personlig rejse

When I was about 13-14 years old, I played a lot of computer games. Every day when I got home from school, the first thing I did, was to play computer. I loved it, and it felt like it was the only reason to live for. Its sound dramatic, but it’s true.Sometimes I acted like I was sick; to play computer games at home, while the rest of my class was bored at school. Football changed it, and thanks god for that. When I was in 9th grade, I told my mom I wanted to play football, on a higher level. I didn’t know I was going to give up my computer games for it. So when I started in the club, who lies about 30 minutes from where I live, I spend 3-4 hours of my “computer time” on football.Football became bigger and bigger, and I spend more time on it, and I had to let the computer go. It was really good for me. Instead of playing computer in 3-4 hours in row, I played football. I’m still playing a lot of football, and there is only one game I still play on the computer.The game is called “Virtual Manager” and of course it’s about football.The game is about you, as being a manager of your own team, and has to sell and buy players. When you do that, and if you do it right, you will earn money. When you have enough money, you can buy better players, and make your team better. You’re also playing in a league, from 8.divison to “Premier League”. Right now I’m playing in 5.division, and I’m getting better and better all the time.The game is really popular among football players, and also adults are playing the game.It’s fascinating that it takes place from the real world, so it becomes more realistic and fun to play.An improvement to the game could be to put the real players name into it. It could get better than FIFA, in my opinion, if they will put real players into the game. That will be huge! Not only because I like the game, but also because “Virtual Manager” is a Danish company. In many other games you can cheat either one way or another. But in “Virtual Manager” you can’t. There are so many administrators so you’ll get busted, and banned for maybe 2 years of playing.The rules are simple: don’t cheat and have fun. Amongst my friends it’s a few who loves to play it, like I do. When I was younger, me and my friends played it all day, and it was all of my friends who loved it. Now they’re playing completely different games, or not even playing. Because of football, I can’t use a lot of time on playing computer games. That’s why I’m playing “Virtual Manager”. The only things I have to do every day, is to log in, and train my team. It takes 2-3 minutes, and then I’m done. I the weekends I like to spend more time on it, and use some time to buy better players, or sell some.