EVERY TIME HE STARTED LOSING, HE PRESSED 'RESET'

Every time he started losing, he pressed 'reset'.
He knew he was only cheating himself (plus various other cliches), but he felt better when he was winning. He also knew that there was no 'reset' button in life available to him. But he was also pretty sure that the people with power, the people with the metaphorical buttons of control, had their own, far superior version. Cheats always prosper: it's something he learned long ago but by some freak of birth or upbringing, he was simply incapable of capitalising on in real life.
In some small way he guessed that made him a good person. Not that it made much difference to him. And in the meantime, he had his computer games to take his mind of the real world; to make him feel like a winner. Even if it was in a simulated Serie A match against Empoli.