PES Trivia

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Below is a list of trivial information that have occured during the games history

Contents 1 Wrong club 2 Spelling Errors 3 Famous Black Athlete 4 Super Cruyff 5 Nationality Errors 6 Bonus GK ability 7 Default Team Name Change 8 Secret/Bonus Stats for Japan 9 Replays = Goals? 10 Missing players 11 Licensed Kit Errors 12 Wrong foot

Wrong club

• Rachid Bouaouzan plays for Sparta Rotterdam despite being a Wigan Athletic player in PES 2008.

• Ewerthon plays for Malaga in PES 2009 despite never playing there in real life.

• Marouane Fellaini plays for Standard Liege in PES 2009 despite having moved to Everton.

• Players such as Rafael Sobis, Rivaldo, Ariel Ortega and Ricardinho were playing for their previous clubs in PES 2009 despite playing for clubs that aren't in the game.

Spelling Errors

• West Ham's John Paintsil has his name down as Pantsil. Although this is correct as the Home Office made an error when registering Paintsil for a work permit in 2006. The game player can accurately change this by changing his player name to the correct spelling of Paintsil, but his Name on Shirt option to Pantsil to reflect life. When on international duty for Ghana, his shirt reads Paintsil.

• Florin Cernat's surname is wrongly spelled as Chernat.

• Rodrigo Possebon's surname is wrongly spelled as Possebom.

• Claudio Pizarro's surname is wrongly spelled as Pizzaro.

• Darius Vassell's surname is wrongly spelled as Vassel.

• Ezequiel Lavezzi's surname is wrongly spelled as Lavessi.

• Jakub Blaszczykowski's surname is wrongly spelled as Braszczykowski.

• Lee Cattermole's surname is wrongly spelled as Catermole.

• Azar Karadas' surname is wrongly spelled as Kardas.

• Javier Garrido is wrongly spelled Jabier Garrido.

• Oliver Kahn was named Kalm as a result of Kahn holding the rights to his image.

• Richard Kingson's surname is wrongly spelled Kingston.

• Robert Koren's surname is wrongly spelled Kolen.

• Asamoah Gyan's name is wrongly spelled Gyan Asamoah.

• Franck Dja Djedje's surname is wrongly spelled Djadjedje.

• Cesar Villaluz is wrongly known as C. Martínez, his mother's surname.

• Thomas Rasmussen was wrongly known as Schultz. He changed his surname back to Rasmussen in 2003, this was later fixed.

• Janvier Charles Mbarga's surname is wrongly spelled Jmbarga.

• Adrian Lopez is wrongly known as Piscu.

• Alhassane Keita Otchico is wrongly spelled Kta. Otchico.

• Dario Damjanovic's surname is wrongly spelt Damijavoic.

One thing to note is that names which are originally spelled with a different writing system (such as Cyrillic, Korean, Arabic and Greek) may have more than one way of being transliterated into Latin.

Famous Black Athlete

• Luke Young is displayed as having skin type 3, despite the fact he has a white skin tone.
• Cicinho, a Brazilian of Italian origin is also a victim of having the skin type 3.
• Similarly Salva Ballesta, Sergio Romero, Matias Silvestre, Ricardinho, Gustavo Munua, Nilmar, Edu Dracena, Reimond Manco, Oscar Cardozo (earlier versions), Banel Nicolita, Mauro Rosales, Ersen Martin and Sebastian Giovinco (fixed in PES 2009) are portrayed as black in PES 2008 despite being caucasian. Also Juan Roman Riquelme (earlier versions), Eduardo, Nuno Gomes (earlier versions), Carlos Tevez and Ricardo Quaresma appear to be too dark in Pro Evo games. Even though Fellipe Bastos doesn't have a preset face, he is made too dark.
• Also in previous PES games Lucho Gonzalez, Milan Baros, Helder Postiga and Yossi Benayoun were among the many high profile players given a dark skin tone despite being caucasian before the introduction of preset faces for those particular players.
• On PES 4, former Chelsea goalkeeper Yves Makabu Ma-Kalambay was portrayed as a Caucasian man, when he is in fact black and of Congolese decent. On the same game, Anthony Vanden Borre was given skin colour 1 when it's in fact closer to 3, this was fixed since then. Similarly Trinidad and Tobago international Carlos Edwards is portrayed as a white player for no apparent reason along with the Brazilian preset faced footballer Cesar Aparecido Rodrigues and Brazilian-born Poland international Roger Guerreiro. Lastly, Danny Simpson's skin tone appears to be too light as he should at least be a skin tone 3.

Super Cruyff

• Classic Netherlands Striker Johann Cruyff is able to occupy every outfield playing position available.

Nationality Errors

• Occasionally, the producers of Pro Evolution Soccer make mistakes concerning the nationalities of some players. This may be due to the player being eligible for more than one nation, and having not picked a country before the release date of the game.

Examples of players being registered to the wrong nation are:

• Ivan Rakitic (Born in Switzerland and played for the Swiss U-21 team before choosing the Croatian national team, registered under Switzerland).

• Hernan Dellafiore (Argentinian born but represented Italy at youth level, registered under Argentina).

• Pepe (Born in Brazil, but chose to represent Portugal at international level, registered under Brazil).

• Mounir El Hamdaoui is Dutch despite transferring his loyalty to Morocco.

• Felipe Bastos has a Portuguese flag despite being Brazilian.

• Leandro Cabrera is registered as Argentinian although he is from Uruguay.

Bonus GK ability

• Throughout the game most outfield players have the GK skills of 50 or in the case of blank players (Player 001,002 etc.), 60. However, Konami have decided that if a outfield player is forced to play in goal due to an injury to their Goalkeeper, their attribute will be increased to 55 or 60 instead.

Such examples of this are Jan Koller, Glen Johnson, Phil Jagielka, Ulrich Le Pen and also John O'Shea who have all come on to go in goal at times of need.

Default Team Name Change

• After Pro Evolution Soccer 2 the Master League Defaults had a huge name upheaval, as all players recieved a small alteration to their names.

These changes were as simple as the changing of one letter, such as the change of playmaker Miranda to Minanda

Secret/Bonus Stats for Japan

According some PESfans from Japan. They claim that Goalkeepers on the game have some additional stats, that aren't viewable in the European version of the game. These stats comprise of abilities such as throwing speed and distance amongst others. These stats were visible in formation settings on the PS2 games outside of Japan.

Replays = Goals?

On PES4, if you pressed pause when the ball just crossed the line and chose replay, you would get an additional goal for each replay.

Missing players

• Players such as Eidur Gudjohnsen, Dudu Cearense and Robbie Fowler were missing from the original edition of PES 2009 however they were added after the patch with preset faces.
• On the other hand some players such as Danny Alves, Keith Andrews, Walter Lopez and Diego Tristan were still absent from the game much to the disgust of players. This was corrected in the February Patch.
• Albert Riera is also missing for PS2 users along with Asier Del Horno and Louis Saha.

Licensed Kit Errors

• Some teams like ADO Den Haag and Slavia Prague have been given grey goalkeeper kits, though including club emblem and sponsors but not kit manufacturer. This was also the case for newly licensed Ligue 1 in PES6 where all teams bar Paris Saint-Germain and RC Lens, the only French teams manufactured by Nike, were all given similar grey 'keeper uniforms.
• Liverpool's away Premier League font should be white with a black outline opposed to red with a black outline. Another error is that the red font is supposed to have a white outline.
• Ajax is missing two stars above the crest on their jerseys which PSV and Feyenoord manage to have.
• France were given their old home kit on PES 2009, which changed straight after the European Championships. This was fixed in the November update.
• South Korea's kits in PES3 were missing the Nike swoosh although Juventus had it on their kits on the game.
• The following teams have their sponsors missing thoughout the series (sponsors in brackets):
  • CFR Cluj (Sigma Towers)
  • Celtic & Rangers (Carling - This is due to alcohol advertising on a game with a 3+ age rating and such advertising being banned in territories such as France and Norway)
  • FC Copenhagen (Carlsberg - Alcohol advertising. Liverpool have the same sponsor but seem to be exempt from this)
  • Udinese (Lotto - Already features on the kit due to them being their kit manufacturers. Sponsor later unveiled to be Dacia)
  • RCD Mallorca (Illes Ballears)
  • Bayern Munich (T-Home - PES2008)
  • FC Barcelona (Unicef - PES6 - This was because they were quite into the season when they got a sponsor)
  • Sevilla (888.com - PES6)

Wrong foot

• Fabio da Silva is wrongly portrayed as a left footed player despite being right footed.

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