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Become a Legend in PES 2013: From Debut to Superstar
Build a career in PES 2013 Become a Legend: creating your player, earning starts, training focus, transfers, and becoming your club's main man.
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Become a Legend is PES 2013's role playing game in football boots. You create one player, start as an unknown, and live a career of substitute appearances, training focuses and transfer rumours. This guide covers the long road from the bench to the armband.
Creating a player who lasts
Pick a position you genuinely enjoy playing for hundreds of matches, because this mode is a marathon. Forwards get the glory and the ratings swings; playmakers get constant involvement; defenders get the most honest education in positioning the game offers. Set a realistic build, because an overpowered teenager makes the early struggle, the mode's best part, disappear.
The early months on the bench
You will begin as a substitute, and your job is to make fifteen minute cameos impossible to ignore. Chase lost causes, make the simple pass, and take one shot when it is truly on. Managers in this mode reward visible effort and match ratings, not highlight attempts that end attacks. For the complete picture of the game, start from our full PES 2013 fan guide and work outwards from there.
Training focus and growth
Your training focus shapes what your player becomes. Stamina and pace early give you the legs to affect games; technical focuses polish the player you already are. Resist spreading points everywhere. A legend with one devastating strength gets picked, transferred and remembered.
Match ratings are your currency
Everything in Become a Legend is priced in ratings: starts, contracts, national team calls, transfer interest. Protect your rating with intelligent play. A quiet, tidy six and a half in a win beats a reckless seven in a defeat more often than new players expect.
Choosing your transfers
Move for minutes, not for badge size. A mid table club where you start every week develops a legend faster than a giant where you watch from the bench. When the big move comes, and it will, arrive as a finished player rather than a prospect and the mode's second act belongs to you. We go deeper on the connected topic in our manual passing and shooting deep dive, which pairs well with this one.
Playing your position honestly
The mode teaches real football discipline. As a striker, your off the ball runs decide your chances more than your finishing. As a midfielder, showing for the ball in safe zones keeps your team and your rating alive. The camera rewards patience in a way arcade modes never do.
International football and peak years
National team selection follows club form, and tournament summers become the mode's set pieces. Manage your player's condition across long seasons, because legends are made in the third competition of a year as much as the first. Peak years in this mode feel earned because the early bench years were real. We go deeper on the connected topic in our PES 2013 PC settings guide, which pairs well with this one.
Retiring a legend
Late career, your pace fades and your influence must change: drop deeper, dictate, mentor by position. Become a Legend is at its best here, asking what a great player becomes when the gifts change. Finish the career and the mode leaves you with something rare in football games: a story that was actually yours.
Quick Answers
What is Become a Legend in PES 2013?
It is the Football Life mode where you control one created player through a full career, earning starts, improving through training focus, transferring between clubs and playing international football.
How do you get more playing time in Become a Legend?
Perform in substitute appearances, keep match ratings consistently solid, and choose training focuses that build one clear strength. Ratings drive selection more than single spectacular moments.
What position is best for Become a Legend?
The position you enjoy most over a long career. Playmakers touch the ball most, forwards chase the headlines, and defenders learn the game most deeply.