When Palermo beat AC Milan earlier this month, goalkeeper Marco Amelia put his man-of-the-match performance down to, in part, nights in front of a computer screen.

Amelia saved a penalty from Ronaldinho in the game, because he knew where the Brazilian was going to place it based his body language learned playing a virtual football game.

"It was like playing against Ronaldinho on the PlayStation," he said afterwards.

"He did the exact same run-up, it was very strange."