Unfortunately the game itself is just a standard outdoor riff on indoor soccer, presumably based on the Puma Street Soccer Cup that ran for a while in the 90s (and beyond?).
@MossRC this was actually developed by Italian software house Pixelstorm, right after acquired by Trecision in order to work on a 3D football game to sell to Microsoft.
But half of the studio refused to be acquired (and move away from Naples), so that in the end, Trecision realized the developers responsible for the 3D engine had left and, well, they mentioned it to me as "a mistake".
@MossRC I wrote about Trecision and the Pixelstorm acquisition a bit here https://genesistemple.com/the-history-of-trecision-part-iii-big-money-small-hopes I also spoke with the former Pixelstorm leader but, frankly, I don't feel brave enough to publish even half of what he told me... :D
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@MossRC apparently it sold okay, even though the developers never saw most of the money on that as they made quite a limited economic agreement. But don't quote me on that, as this is all information I got from one interview from the former Pixelstorm so not much verification on that.