Every once in a while, you stumble across a game that somehow makes you want to keep on playing until the end. For me, that’s what United Eleven became. I can hardly spend a day nowadays without logging in to my Facebook account and checking out how my team is doing, and to spend some time training them so they get closer to that maximum rank every day.

What I love most about this football management simulator, however, is that it gives me access to a world that I never thought I could visit in my lifetime. That world, is the world of football management. By simply logging into the game using my Facebook account, I have at my fingertips an honest-to-goodness football club that’s mine to take care of and take through competition to the finals.

Once I’ve gotten my account set up, it was time to start training my players up so we could go to the finals. Training consists of using three player cards and having them play against one player card, the one that’s supposed to be trained. I lose three players, but I do get a more skillful and elite player for the price of three. I can always spend GP to make acquisitions of new players, most of them much better than the ones I’ve lost.

My favorite part, however, is enrolling through the League. Putting teams through the League will not only help them gain experience and make them better versions of themselves as the game progresses. It also allows the team to earn in-game cash through the matches, and accumulate these in-game cash to make investments in terms of new players that can further the team’s chances of becoming the best in all of the six leagues that’s available for you to compete in when you play United Eleven.

Matches, unfortunately, do not include CGI or animated segments of players competing against other players in the field. You don’t need that. What you need is a live stream of information on the match, which you can browse through in detail if you want to. If you’re the impatient type, perhaps you might want to skip through to the end of the match to see how your team fared in the end. You do get to see a graphical representation of your players and the other team’s players in the field, however.

As for myself, I like to dissect the information on every match so I can tell which players performed exceptionally and which ones need to be replaced or trained further in order for them to be helpful to the team’s goals of blazing through the league.

Because micromanagement is something I am an absolute believer of, I’d want each and every piece of information about the team accessible. That’s what players can get as well when they play United Eleven – you can look at Finances, Team and Individual Statistics, and others.

Finally, United Eleven’s interface is very user friendly. Nobody has to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how a certain game works, and this simulator certainly spares you from such a predicament.