Eric Sylvain Abidal

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
140
Potential ability
165
Home reputation
140
Current reputation
140
World reputation
125
International appearances
67
Coaching qualification
1

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
39
Reputation
National 1.5 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Attacking
Preferred playing style
Passing
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness42 / 1002.5 / 5
Strength42 / 1002.5 / 5
GK shot stopping33 / 1002.0 / 5
GK handling34 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)65 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)64 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)52 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)50 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)45 / 1002.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)44 / 1002.5 / 5
Overall44 / 1002.5 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
3
Hair colour code
0
Hair length code
0
Skin tone code
14

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 17
Judging player potential 16
Analysing data 8
Tactical knowledge 8
Hardness of training 12
Youngsters 15
Physiotherapy 2
Injury management 3
Motivating 12
People management 12
Discipline 13
Mind games 5
Patience 15
Determination 16
Versatility 15
Buying players 15
Business 15
Resources 10
Interference 10

19 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Eccentricity, Negotiating.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 5
Defending 15
Technical 7
Tactical 8
Mental 9
Fitness 5
Attacking 5
Defending 15
Technical 7
Tactical 8
Mental 9
Fitness 5

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 2
Goalkeeper handling 2
Goalkeeper distribution 3

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 15
Directness 5
Tempo 10
Width 10
Depth 5
Pressing 15
Flexibility 8
Flamboyancy 10
Squad rotation 12
Dirtiness allowance 10

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 9 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Lyon-Duchère Association Sportive Player 1998-07-01 2000-07-01 Ended
AS Monaco Player 2000-07-01 2002-08-31 Ended
LOSC Lille Player 2002-08-31 — Current
LOSC Lille Player — 2014-07-01 Ended
Olympique Lyonnais Player 2004-07-01 2007-07-01 Ended
Barcelona Player 2007-07-01 2013-06-30 Ended
AS Monaco Player 2013-07-08 2014-06-30 Ended
Olympiakos SF Piraeus Player 2014-07-05 2014-12-20 Ended
Barcelona Chief Scout 2018-06-08 — Current

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Joined
2018-06-08
Contract start
2018-06-08
Expires
2021-06-30
Weekly wage
£10,037

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1708 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
French Yes —
Spanish No 10
English No 5
Catalan No 2
Arabic No 2

Bans and absences

Bans and absences from person_ban.
TypeFromToMatchesCompetitionNation
Medical 2012-04-10 2013-04-01 — — —
Medical 2011-03-15 2011-05-02 — — —

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2014-12-20

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
Marco Materazzi 75
— 75

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation Martinique 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1979-09-11
Nationality
France
Joined current club
2018-06-08

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 13
Ambition 15
Controversy 7
Loyalty 14
Pressure 12
Professionalism 17
Sportsmanship 16
Temperament 16