previous football manager simulation Championship Manager. Noticeable changes included the following: The name of the famous German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn had to be removed from the game and was replaced with the name Jens Mustermann (Mustermann translates from German into English as Sample Man and is the German equivalent of John Doe or Joe Bloggs – see Placeholder name). This is because Kahn does not allow his image or name to be used in certain computer games and it is speculated that his name was changed to Jens in this game (the name of his main goalkeeping rival Jens Lehmann) as a light-hearted dig at Kahn. The German national team never picks 'real' players and instead only ever use 'greyed-out' fictional players. The names of all French league teams had to be changed from their full names to simply the name of the city they represent. For example, Paris Saint-Germain became Paris and Olympique Marseille became Marseille. The names of Japanese league teams were changed to completely fictional names such as Niitsu Unicorn and Katano Blaze. The name of the Japanese J.League was changed to the N-League or Nihon League. The names of the major European trophies were changed to fictional names. The European Cup or Champions League became the Champions Cup, the UEFA Cup became the Euro Cup and the Intertoto Cup became the Euro Vase. However, due to the way these data changes have been made (using simple instructions in plain-text files called EDT files and LNC files) almost all of the above changes could be easily reversed – many of them by simply deleting the appropriate file. Chinese controversy Football Manager 2005 was banned in China when it was found that places such as Tibet and Taiwan were included as separate countries in imported releases. China banned the game because it felt that it "threatened its content harmful to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity ... [that] seriously violates Chinese law and has been strongly protested by our nation's gamers". SEGA published a statement in reply, reporting that a Chinese version of the game, complete with Taiwan included as part of China, would be released. They also stated that the offending version was not translated into Chinese as it was not supposed to be released in China. The offending games were believed to have been imported or downloaded, written to CD and boxed to be sold in illegal