Football Manager 2020: How to train player characteristics

The individual player characteristics are often underestimated or even overlooked. Yet they are quite important for success in Football Manager 2020. We explain how to succeed in targeted training.

Always better: player characteristics allow a selective optimization of habits.

Tactics, formation and attributes are the focus of many discussions around Football Manager 2020. But if you want to exploit the full potential of your players, you should not neglect player characteristics.

Football Manager 2020: Understanding and training player characteristics

Player characteristics are certain behaviors that can be specifically trained to a player:

• This way, for example, weaknesses can be well concealed, such as with "Only uses the strong foot" for players who have a very weak foot, or the characteristic of only playing simple passes for players with a low value in "Passing".
• Inversely, player trait can also bring out strengths even better. Thus, for fast players, it offers to submit the ball and run over the opponent.

Logically, the recommended player traits always depend on the attributes, as well as the position and role of the player.To start training a new player trait, you need to call the player's training window.

• There you click next to the overview of the attributes on "New player trait" and select one of the existing trainers.
• In the conversation you will see the possible learnable player traits and finally you will get an assessment of the trainer whether he considers the new trait advisable or not.

If the rehearsal of the player trait works, you will be informed about it after a few weeks or a few months. The exact duration and success or failure depends on many factors, such as training and coaches, but also on the player's personality.