Yes I already wrote about it at soccer gaming:
Yes, we already knew this for two days but IGN very sneaky changed the news.
They say that it reads 'online play or penalties' in stead of 'exhibition match or penalties', which is essentially different. In the first case Konami themselves would have confirmed that you can play on-line. In the second case you can see it as a programming bug, not belonging to the LIVE icon, but to the Exhibition-match-icon....In that last case there will still be a very small chance that you only can download content in stead of playing on-line.... But some Konami-people already told people (me among others) that you can play on-line. Probably IGN has got the same confirmation.