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15th Sep 2015

Watch footballers take part in a real-life FIFA skills challenge

Life imitates art...

Tom Victor

Whenever a new version of the FIFA series of games comes out, we love to try out all the mini-games you get to play while the game is loading.

Sure, some of us might get bored of them after a while and skip straight to the start of a match, but they’re entertaining enough to pass the time.

But a couple of MLS players have taken it up a notch – to mark the release of FIFA 16 they’ve had a go at some of the classic challenges with a real football and real props on the training ground.

Watch Chicago Fire’s Harry Shipp and San Jose Earthquakes’ Tommy Thompson go head-to-head in an attempt to perfect their shooting accuracy and short and long passing – sometimes it’s tougher than it looks…