Before the Atari and Amiga, too, there were games like Match Day on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 (quite a decent, playable game) and Kevin Toms's "Football Manager" (written in BASIC and goals shown in isometric 3D) from 1982, which precedes the current football manager games. Here's an interview with Toms from 2010: http://theballisround.co.uk/2010/07/29/the-original-gamefath...
There is a really good long two part interview with Dino Dini on the Retry Asylum podcast.
retroasylum.com/ep-37-dino-dini-interview-part-1/
retroasylum.com/ep-39-dino-dini-interview-part-2/
Of particular interest is why Dini did not go on to make a successful soccer game after Goal. That might have dented the success of FIFA or PES and created a European alternative.
There Dino Dini's Kick off 1 and 2 and Sensible soccer where the leading games. They did not however license directly from FIFA.
Football Manager is a strategy game that is still running, and still very succesfull in its niche.