LiberoGrande

The player starts to choose one of the star players, and then a national team. Each star player, based on a real football player but with changed names, except for initials (Zinedine Zidane is Zenon Zadkine, for instance) is rated in both ball skill, speed and shooting abilities.

In addition to the original arcade mode, the home release adds an International mode (basically, the FIFA World Cup format), a league competition (up to eight star players/teams), which can be all human controlled and a skills mode where the player has to complete several training ground tasks such as hitting a target floating in the goal mouth or hitting an area from distance.

The player roster in the arcade version consists of: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player —  BRA Raimundo —  NED Rudolf de Buys —  ITA Antonio Del Pacino —  FRA Zenon Zadkine —  JPN Naoki Hidaka —  CMR Philippe Empson —  ENG Alfred Shaffer —  ARG Gaston Balmaceda —  COL Cornelio Valencia —  GER Jordan Krüger —  ITA Raffaello Balbo —  NED Dirk Berlarge —  GER Oswald Bismarck —  ITA Patrizio Mazzini —  BRA Richard Castro —  GER Ajax Möbius

No. Pos. Nation Player —  ROU Godwin Hasdeu —  ESP Renato Gallegos —  CRO Deron Slojacek —  WAL Robin Garrick —  SRB Dorman Smixolovic —  ITA Gregorio Zonaras (Hidden player) —  USA Arnold Lang (Hidden player) —  BRA Roland (Hidden player) —  JPN Minoru Kai (Hidden player) —  FRA Edgard Cailaux (Hidden player) —  ENG Powel Gardner (Hidden player) —  LBR Gerald Wells (Hidden player) —  NED Ruprech Goes (Hidden player) —  ARG David Magellan (Hidden player) —  FRA Maurice Poulenc (Hidden player)

There is a total of 48 national teams, but only 32 of them to choose from, depending on which version:

^a Only playable in the Arcade version
^b Only playable in the Japanese version
^c Only playable in the PAL version

A sequel, LiberoGrande 2 (known as LiberoGrande International in Europe) was released for PlayStation in Europe and Japan only, but with less success than the first title.

A playable demo of the game was included in Ridge Racer Turbo (Ridge Racer Hi-Spec in Europe), which was sold with Ridge Racer Type 4. The demo includes three players (Zenon Zadkine, Alfred Shaffer and Jordan Krüger) and three teams (England, France and Italy), which a person could use to play a ten-minute game.

In Japan, Game Machine listed LiberoGrande on their February 15, 1998 issue as being the seventh most-successful arcade game of the month.[3]

• LiberoGrande at the Killer List of Videogames
• LiberoGrande at MobyGames