| Virtua Pro Football | |
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| Developer(s) | Smilebit | 
| Publisher(s) | Sega | 
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 | 
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| Genre(s) | Football simulation | 
| Mode(s) | Single-player  Multiplayer  | 
Virtua Pro Football, known in Japan as World Football Climax (ワールド フットボール クライマックス), is a PlayStation 2 football simulation video game, released by Sega in 2006.
Gameplay
The game featured a rock-paper-scissors like system for both 1-on-1 situations, and set pieces. It also had a player career mode which allowed completed players to be exported to Let's Make a Soccer Team! for use as youth players, as well as importing teams from the game to use in games and custom competitions.
Teams & Competitions
Licenses
The game covers the top 6 European Leagues from the 2005/06 season but mainly featured with unlicensed competitions & teams. The only fully licensed leagues are the Spanish La Liga & Segunda Division, the Dutch Eredivisie & Eerste Divisie, while the Italian League name is unlicensed but with 32 clubs of 42 from Serie A & Serie B being licensed.
Leagues
 Premiership
 League Championship
 League 1
 League 2
 Division 1
 Division 2
 1. Liga
 2. Liga
 Calcio A 1
 Calcio B 2
 La Liga L
 Segunda Division L
 Eredivisie L
 Eerste Divisie L
1 : League name unlicensed, with licensed teams except Cagliari, Palermo & Siena
2 : League name unlicensed, with licensed teams except Avellino, Bologna, Cesena, Cremonese, Mantova & Rimini
L : Full license
Competitions
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Other Clubs
This list features the teams from the other leagues of the world, all of them are unlicensed
Rest of Europe
Rest of the World
 Al Hilal
 A Nacional
 America
 Auckland
 Avellaneda
 Boston
 Chicago
 Corinthians
 Cruzeiro
 Dallas
 Flamengo
 Fluminense
 Guadalajara
 Independiente
 Internacional
 Iwata
 Kansas City
 Kashima
 La Boca
 Los Angeles
 Nagoya
 Necaxa
 O Asuncion
 O Caldas
 Palmeiras
 Pumas
 Quito
 R Plate
 Santos
 San Jose
 São Paulo
 Tigres
 Urawa
 Vasco da Gama
 Viñeazur
 Yokohama
 Washington
National Teams
Europe
Americas
Africa
Asia & Oceania
1 : licensed only in the Japanese version
Stadiums
Many of the stadiums that feature in the game appeared are based on real stadiums, but have unlicensed names.
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Trivia
The former Italian footballer Roberto Baggio endorsed the Japanese version, having appeared in the TV commercial,[1] flyer and merchandising.[2][3]
See also
- Let's Make a Soccer Team!, a sister title by Sega which used the same engine.
 
References
- ↑ World Football Climax commercial at YouTube
 - ↑ World Football Climax Archived 2012-05-21 at the Wayback Machine at Official site (in Japanese)
 - ↑ Roberto Baggio at Giant Bomb
 
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