EA's FIFA Manager series has been around for good many years now, and it is starting to look like all the work put into the game is starting to really come together for all the soccer managing fans out there.

A new video has been released to show people some of the stuff EA has been up to. This first video is focused on the new online mode, where you can play with up to 8 friends and enemies, in the same virtual soccer/football league.

With the long-running and huge-selling Football Manager series to compete against, it appears that FIFA Manager may have too much ground to make up for, at times. But hey, this is EA after all. They have been known to make a long-running, successful sport series or two, themselves. The last FIFA Manager game received both positive and negative reviews -- maybe 2010's edition will do a bit better.

This online mode sort of looks like it is the EA equivalent of playing "Fantasy League" sports games which are very popular these days. If you ask this gamer -- and hey, I guess you didn't, but anyways -- EA should have put a email-play option mode in this series -- it would be one thing that Sports Interactive's Football Manager hasn't done yet, and I'd guess it would be popular.

FIFA Manager 10 is coming out for PC, and no release date has been set.