To further enhance your gaming experience, Players can customize and personalize their manager's avatar to the smallest detail in Football Manager 2017. A player will be prompted to do this at the beginning of the game, and there are a number of different options for each separate category.
After entering your personal details and then selecting your manager's gender, you will be allowed to input what you would their birth date, height and weight to be. Following this, you will be able to select your avatar's skin tone, eye color, and hair style and color, as well as if you would like any facial hair and its given pigment of color. From there, you can further accessorize your apparel with glasses, jackets, shirts, ties, trousers and shoes, each, of course, with the option of different hues.
Once finished making your manager's avatar all you would like it to be, your AI Manager from there on out will greet you on the start screen to really invite you into the game and make you feel apart of such. And it's these small features, from having the ability to customize your character to being greeted after loading your game, that truly sets FM17 apart from all the rest.