The image was taken from an international friendly between England and Poland, with Platt shielding the ball from Świerczewski near the corner flag. You’d be forgiven for not knowing either Świerczewski or Platt, who now belong in history only as the very first FIFA cover boys. The original FIFA, before annual nomenclature became a thing, featured a cover graced by Poland midfielder Piotr Świerczewski and English midfielder David Platt (other editions had Ruud Gullit with Packie Bonner). We’ve got to start somewhere, so why not start at the very beginning with the first FIFA video game released in 1993? #FIFA #RETROGAMING #SegaGenesis #SegaMegaDrive #EA #easports /Yb618S7s1u The cover stars were David Platt and Piotr Swierczewski. To mark the release of #FIFA21 let's take a look at the very first FIFA game from 1993. Worst FIFA Cover Boys David Platt and Piotr Świerczewski - FIFA International Soccer So without further ado (there’s been way too much ado already and you probably skipped it anyway), here’s our list of the worst and most obscure FIFA cover boys of all time. So we feel fine talking about the following players as the worst FIFA cover boys. Plus, only a handful of women have even been given the opportunity to be on a cover, as women’s soccer has long been a gimmick at best in the minds of EA Sports. But, honestly, there are no women who fit the mold of being either obscure or undeserving of such an honor. We here at The18 like to be inclusive, so when we want to talk about the FIFA cover stars, we should be careful to not overuse “cover boy,” which would leave out the women footballers who graced the cover art. That’s boring, so we’ll mostly ignore covers from outside of Europe and the U.S. We could fill this list with players who appeared on region-specific covers - for about a decade EA had different covers for different countries/regions, including 18 different covers in FIFA 16 - but then we’d just end up with a list of obscure Saudi, Japanese and Russian players. Our criteria for this list aren’t just the players who were garbage, but the players who you’d be surprised to learn made it onto the cover of one of the biggest franchises in the history of video games, players who didn’t deserve their spot on that coveted cover. No, today we’re going to go through the worst and most obscure FIFA cover boys in the history of the series, if only so I can talk about Ben Olsen for a minute. Initially, I planned to go through the most iconic covers, like FIFA 2004, which had Thierry Henry, Ronaldinho and Alessandro Del Piero bursting off the plastic. We all remember the most iconic FIFA cover boys, folks like Wayne Rooney, Edgar Davids, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but do you remember the more obscure cover stars?Īs FIFA takes its licensing and goes home because EA Sports refused to double its payments to use the FIFA branding, I wanted to look back at some of the most iconic FIFA video game covers. From the rough-looking first FIFA games of the early 90s to the modern masterpieces of today, dozens of soccer superstars have graced the covers, including Kylian Mbappé and Sam Kerr in FIFA 23, out Sept. This year marks the final edition of the vaunted FIFA video game series under the current name.
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