Sports Interactive announced that it will be adding women’s football teams to the Football Manager series, adding that it’s “one sport, one game.”Over on the Football Manager site, Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson explains that the studio has “no interest whatsoever in making a standalone women’s football version of Football Manager,” as it intends instead to add women’s football teams into the Football Manager series itself. “One sport, one game,” adds Jacobson. This task will take a number of years due to the cost and other challenges, such as the amount of motion capture needed to “recreate all of [the] existing motion captured animation data using female players,” and the time needed to create a “global database of women’s football” — Sports Interactive’s existing database took 28 years. As a result, Sports Interactive doesn’t yet know which version of Football Manager will be the one to see women’s football added, but says they’re working to get it done as soon as possible. “There’s no hiding that there’s currently a glass ceiling for women’s football and we want to do what we can to help smash through it,” Jacobson says. “We believe in equality for all and we want to be part of the solution. We want to be a part of the process that puts women’s football on an equal footing with the men’s game.”
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