Meet The FIFA 08 Offside Cup Champion, Anders Skov Klausen!

By: Dave Martinez | May 22nd, 2008

Anders Skov Klausen The FIFA 08 Offside Cup has been nearly three months of grueling competition. Invitees from TheOffside community matched wit and skill for Online Community bragging rights (and an Offsides t-shirt!). Over 60 unique players in total submitted their name and team for this tournament. But only one person was able to beat the odds.

And he is from Denmark.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you your FIFA 08 Offside Cup Champion, ANDERS SKOV KLAUSEN!

Whats your name?

Anders Skov Klausen

Where are you from?

Denmark

Nationality?

Danish

Do you have a FIFA world ranking?

My leaderboard ranking is approx. number 600 world ranked. I’m ranked as nr. 2 on the Xbox live rankings for Denmark.

What is your online gamer rating?

23

Your screenname is Roven. What the hell does that mean anyway?

Don’t have a specific meaning, was a name i created as i started playing world of warcraft a long time ago, since then I have just used that as my gamer name.

Whats your favorite club?

In Denmark its F.C. Copenhagen, worldwide - Barcelona.

Favorite national team?

Brazil - mostly because its a 100 % technically good team with star players as Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho.

Who is your favorite player?

Ronaldinho or C. Ronaldo. Both fantastic players as they have a technical way of playing football that very few players worldwide has.

Why did you pick Barcelona for this tourney?

2 reasons. 1) Generally the best team in the game 2) My favourite team (worldwide).

What was the first FIFA game you ever purchased?

FIFA 97 or 98 - long time ago

Who has been your toughest opponent this tourney?

My toughest opponent in this tourney was without a doubt Roma. We were in group together and had a fantastic game. To be honest it could go either way, I think both me and Roma had 2 or 3 shots on the bar/posts. It was so even that the deciding goal first game at the approx. 94th min.

Best player on your squad?

Ronaldinho - I have build my play up through Ronaldinho so that all the attacking play goes through him. Therefore he is also the MVP of my team. The MVP title could also have gone to Puyol tho, since he is a awesome defending player.

Starting XI and formation:

XI:

4-4-2:
Defence: Zambrotta, Puyol, Militio, Abidal
Mid: Messi, Iniesta, Yaya Toure, Ronaldinho
Forwards: Eto, Henry

4-3-1-2:

Defence: Zambrotta, Puyol, Militio, Abidal
Mid: Messi, Toure, Iniesta
Attacking mid: Ronaldinho
Forwards: Eto, Henry

4-3-3

Defence: Zambrotta, Puyol, Militio, Abidal
Mid: Messi, Toure, Iniesta
Forwards: Eto, Henry, Ronaldinho

About the formation: I usually start with a 4-4-2 formation as i want to start the game as neutral in comparison of attack and defence. If I get in front ill keep the formation as it is. If I get behind as I did against Fiorentina, actually 0-2 after first half, i switch to either 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-3 (depends on which team im against, for example if they have bad LB and RB i run with 4-3-3 to match them there, in the other way around i use 4-3-1-2 if they they have bad centers at the defense.

A general message to everyone?

I would just like to thank all the participants, it has been a great tourney - well played everyone. Of course also a thanks to Dave because he were willing to offer so much of his time to set up this tourney and so on.

Nice to have such a gracious winner! Besides this write up, and a featured article on the Video Games Blog, Anders will also be receiving an Offsides T-Shirt.

Thank you to everyone for participating! We look forward to seeing more of you at our next tourney - tentatively scheduled in about 3 weeks - The Offsides Euro 2008 Cup. Stay Tuned to the Video Games Blog for more.

And to read up more on the Road to the Cup for Anders Skov Klausen, check out this summary of his games by clicking here!