Potrero - Football life sim

You start at 16 with a kitbag and two pairs of bootsNobody knows your name. The manager calls you "kid". It is a long road fromhere to a statue, and most players never make it to the plaque.DE POTRERO is a football career game where you play as a single player:yours. You do not pick the squad or sign anyone. You decide what to do with theball when it reaches you, and you make your living from it. The match is played by decidingEvery match comes down to a handful of moments that actually matter.

The balldrops to you in the box with the keeper closing you down: do you go low andsafe, or do you go for the impossible angle? Nobody tells you which one isthe easy one, or what your odds are: you read the play, you go with yourgut, and you live with what happened. Set pieces and one-on-ones are played as quick time events, and the bigger theleague, the more they ask of you.A career is not played on the pitch aloneThe week before.

Rest like a professional, put in a double session, slip away to see your family, or stay up until 3 AM playing. It all gets paid for sooner or later. The mixed zone. You lost and you have to face them. What you say ends up in the papers, your manager reads it, and the terraces sing it back. The dressing room.…