i got news for you mate. special abilities are a cosmetic feature. they have no effect on how your player performs. only training proper white skills will improve him. special abilities used to only come with the icon for scout players. they added the icon to fool people into spending 69T and make them believe. now with special sponsor they hand out these icons for fun. it's funny how they give you a corner kick specialist but when you look in your players crossing ability it hasn't increased so it's BS.
they are just fancy fake icons that mean nothing at all