By Romily Broad

Welcome to the FIFA 09 Guide - more than 200 pages of premium hints and tips for all your FIFA needs.

Especially useful for the beginners out there, the downloadable documents on this page provide an indispensible guide to getting the most out of your time with FIFA.

Controls: A detailed list of all controls for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Attacking: Trapping, dribbling, passing, crossing and shooting.

Defending: Jockeying, switching players, pressing, slide tackling and clearing the ball.

Goalkeepers: Keeper controls and goal kicks.

Set Pieces: Corners, free kicks and throw-ins.

Penalties: Taking and saving penalties.

Tactics: On-the-fly tactics, plus increase/decrease mentality.

Skills: Standard and advanced skill moves, juggling, combos and exits, beating your opponent.

Team Management: Formations, positional breakdown, editing formations, custom tactics, quick tactics, player roles.

Putting it all Together: Tips on team style, knowing your players, building attacks, scoring from set pieces, successful defending and managing the game.

Be A Pro: All about the Be A Pro mode

Manager Mode: How to be successful in FIFA's Manager Mode.

WANT MORE HELP AND ADVICE?

You can find all sorts of advice, hints and tips at two of the leading independent community sites for FIFA.

SWEETPATCH.TV - A vibrant and hugely popular site where you'll always find a helping hand, as well as competitions and ace online tournaments. They've got a version of this guide already, as well as some videos to go along with it.

FIFASOCCERBLOG.COM - A great site to get the latest FIFA information, as well as tonnes of user-made videos.