Ahh thanks for testing, I use Win7 myself so i didn't know that.. if you want to help, can you maybe send me the contents of C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\LocalLow\ProperlyDecent\Ballsy_WorldCup_2020\Player.log after a failed run? It would help me debug the problem!
You shouldn't need a gamepad, keyboard should do fine! So it's probably a bug.. sorry!
If you could share with me the contents of the file C:\Users\<yourname>\AppData\LocalLow\ProperlyDecent\Ballsy_WorldCup_2020\Player.log after it fails starting, it would help me a lot!