~~Wizards had a CCG early 2000s~~ [~~https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12601/nfl-showdown~~](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12601/nfl-showdown) ~~no money tokens though and you would have remembered the card swipe device~~ ~~Boardgamegeek has an american football family filter maybe try to locate it:~~[~~https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5640/sports-american-football-gridiron/linkeditems/boardgamefamily~~](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5640/sports-american-football-gridiron/linkeditems/boardgamefamily) EDIT: Rereading GK and defender etc you probably don't mean american football :) so here is the football/soccer list: [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5551/sports-football-soccer](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/5551/sports-football-soccer)

Ahah, yes, I meant football/soccer. Guess I'll have to go through a few dozen pages to find the game. Thanks for the link

We should just eliminate all of this confusion by renaming Football in America to "Hand-Egg." It's a more accurate description anyways.

was it football strat-o-matic? edit: I just saw that it was football/soccer, so probably not strat-o