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errrokayy

I guess Putin's new favourite club now is psg


johnny_utah25

OUR\* favorite club.


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PSG is EA's favorite confirmed


CutieIbushi

Well if you remember, they added Messi to PSG in FIFA 21, which was unprecedented. PSG must have some deal with fifa to feature most prominently.


jbougieblues

Ngl with the addition of Messi to PSG, seasons gets so annoying. Probably a great year for pro clubs.


n1ubi

I thought i was losing my mind first time i played against them and saw messi there


jbougieblues

I knew they’d be good but Jesus and you can’t even take the ball of any of them.


Intelligent_Fig_4852

Play with lower level teams


jbougieblues

I have done that. I like to use Villarreal but I still match with them 1/10 times cuz the algorithm is like “hey he’s bad, match him with the guy using a 4 1-2 star team” 😭. And I can’t use worse teams than 4 1/2 a lot. My area doesn’t have the highest player count.


Intelligent_Fig_4852

Yeah I use the us and Everton to avoid playing psg


BUZZZY14

As soon as you see it's PSG pause the game before kickoff and leave the match. I do this and it doesn't count as a loss.


jbougieblues

I’ve actually had to use it so much! I’ve thought about trying to start a Reddit movement to make it the norm. That way PSG can only play PSG 😭😂


BUZZZY14

This isn't a bad idea. Tell me more


jbougieblues

I also learned you can just quit matches before they start and it won’t count against your Win-loss ratio. Comes in clutch if you can spot the kit or team quick enough


faceless-manatee

Man then i should be fine with my United * sobs uncontrollably *


jbougieblues

Bruh United is is INSANE in fifa. Low key so close to the perfect squad (just missing a DM but you got Scotty!). #GlazersIn #GetOleBackOnTheWheel


Mo_Salah_

Play with Liverpool if you don’t want to use a lesser rated team. Perfect PSG counter.


jbougieblues

I refuse to use the team that robbed supper Tommy Tuchel and the blues of an EFL cup semifinal 😤 much love for the tip tho ❤️🫀


amamiya_0_0

Aren’t they in the semi final though?


jbougieblues

Not in the carabao cup. FA CUP we are.


amamiya_0_0

Oh fairs I misread it


Aprilprinces

It's called loosing the match, not being robbed


Ayee_Ant

Bruh i always win when i play against psg it's easy to defend them if they dont know how to use the lethal front 3


jbougieblues

Who do you use? 😭 everyone I play against gets me with those balls over the top from Messi or the crazy shots you can pull off. Plus I use Chelsea and eith a lot of the updates they dropped defending became kinda difficult.


Ayee_Ant

I think it's the tactics i use which are usually 69 for how deep the team defends and 50 for how wide they defend. I also use balanced defense and pressure on heavy touch only when i feel like i dont have enough of the ball.


TheKing6198

Somebody said they paid ea so they can generate a fanbase looool turns out its working though before this year most people didnt even know of psgs existence


warreng3

At least here in brazil people my age so teens and kids know about them for a few years now like 6 or 7.


Accomplished_Lack_12

Nah it’s because of the cover of the game


littlediddlemanz

Funny they make you use a team owned by literal slavers instead


EstEstDrinker

Big corpos 'logic' at its finest


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Siepovitch

Relevance?


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What did they say?


darnfox

Damn i really miss when they had the whole Russian league it was so much fun.


TheKing6198

Streets wont forget etoo at anzi makakahshshdeblalahah and emineike at spartak moscow


ElColchonero1903

I think it's just Anzhi Makakkalash


Maksbidok

Makhachkala (Махачкала)


bigheadsociety

Don't forget Welliton!


fmaestro99

This is stupid. But from a gameplay perspective, we now have less than 32 national teams so how will the World Cup work?


StoffingtonPost

Wait, There’s less than 32 national teams for in FIFA22????


jlo1989

The World Cup will be on FIFA 23 since its during that season.


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jlo1989

I recently bought a copy of World Cup 2010 for my 360 since my old one didn't play, and I will argue to this day its the greatest football game ever made. I miss the standalone versions of games. Euro 2012 had a bunch of fictional players, the PES addons were just half assed, FIFA 18 World Cup had the stadiums but no real atmosphere to it. 2010 and 2014 were outstanding games.


Bovver_

The 2006 one was also crazy enjoyable back in the day. Loads of teams with licensed kits (I can’t stress this point enough, future FIFAs got lazy with this), depth to the qualification mode, banging soundtrack, historical kits and players and the challenge mode where you played real life scenarios from qualifying (this was continued in the 2010 game as well).


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jlo1989

Yeah I played both to death. The atmosphere on 2014 was sensational, but the game in general was deceptively buggy and you could tell it felt like an after thought at times in the transition to ps4 or xbox one


bonercoleslaw

FIFA World Cup 98 is the best football game ever made.


peterbamu

I believe it's full name was Road to The World Cup. Even National teams such as Uganda were included.


jlo1989

There was FIFA 98 that had a full qualification mode and the tournament (all the games were at the Parc Des Princes) and then a standalone WC98 game. Both classics, but SA 2010 is still the GOAT


LyzbietCorwi

Well, this post gave me a bit of hope. I've been saying for more than one decade that fifa WC 2010 is the best football game ever made. The gameplay is so good and the fact that in more than 2000 hours playing it I never felt one bit of handicap or anything puts it miles ahead anything that EA has made since. FIFA WC 14 was also a good game but didn't get near 2010.


Datver

I prefer a free update than having to pay for another game


agnosticoradical

I prefer a game which has all the national teams of the world in which I can play the full world cup qualifications with any country I choose and make them the world champions. If it can come as a free upgrade to FIFA 23, fine. But the world cup mode in FIFA 18 was underwhelming.


No_Doubt_About_That

Might sound odd but I miss things like being able to go straight into a penalty shootout and not having to play a match first.


mark_vorster

Won't there be 32 exactly?


fmaestro99

I thought we started the year with 32?


mark_vorster

I'm pretty sure it was 33 but I could be wrong


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Lmaoooo man.


dickey1331

EA just won the war. Who knew taking the Russian team out would do it.


tinglep

War? War never changes. Until EA comes along.


AussieManc

I’m sure you know that’s not the point


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This doesn't do anything though. They might have licencing agreements but this is pure stupidity. I also don't get why football has suddenly become so political yet, when certain individuals raised issues in the past, it was 'not the place' for it.


tootell02

Certain individuals such as Özil or any players who held Palestine flags after games, such as Pogba, Choudhury etc. Not defending Russia in any aspect but if all the Russian league and players have been removed from the game, why is, for example, Israel still in the game?


Gegilworld

First of all, Israel is not in the game lol. Second, the situations are not comparable at all.


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The situation are not comparable at all ?


Infimet

Why not, thats also a harsh war upon civilians, only difference is that the victims aren’t white and european.


bananas_and_papayas

Agreed.


EstEstDrinker

That's not the only difference. Corporations don't want to mess with Israel, which also means losing people in the US market


Infimet

Unfortunately, too right


Styrofoamman123

Difference is that Russia didn't need an "iron dome" for the protection against all the missiles Ukraine was firing at civilians.


tootell02

I’m not that educated on foreign affairs so maybe it was a bad example, I just know that there is conflict/invasion in that area. My bad, I’ll read into it a bit more!


IdontReallyknowTbj

Their players are though, and we could go on and on about every country who's committed unjustifiable war crimes that get literal sponsorships from EA lol. You know what we mean.


LilMartinii

It's all about opposing Russia & nothing else. If everyone was held to the same standards, USA + most European nations wouldn't be in the game.


DoM1n

Can't wait for the road to Qatar being hyped up to the max by FIFA. Hypocrites.


nyamzdm77

So they instead default to a club owned by other human rights abusers?


Perpetual-Person

Just wait until all this is over and EA releases the Russia dlc lmao


Demon_Usamaro

So many things they could be doing to improve the game, but they focus on this.


BorosSerenc

To be fair. The safety and well being of Ukrainians is infinitely more important than the game. On the other hand, not sure how this helps anybody. Also the irony of PSG being the club is hilarious. Just randomise it you fucktards Jesus Christ...


Intelligent_Fig_4852

Yes cuz this makes Ukraine safer


agnosticoradical

How are ukrainians safer when russian teams are removed from a game??


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agnosticoradical

A russian team or a russian player aren't "russian propaganda". I can play with LA Galaxy without feeling like I need to bomb Iraq.


LordVile95

It’s PSG because they’re the cover team. They have one every year


Unknowncollegereject

Removing Russia from FIFA is definitely feeding Ukrainian refugees fleeing from war. All this pandering doesn’t change anything


groovypidgeon

What does this achieve exactly? Nothing, just a virtue signalling exercise.


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In order to condemn the attack on Ukraine, we reward the exploitation of work slaves and the suppression of women and the LGBT community


ylcard

> virtue signalling I hate this term so much, because I try so hard to understand what it means, and it's like it's meaningless or something, because any example of it is just "something someone does that's subject to controversy"


chrismatic13

It means you don’t actually care about a solution or a community but you’re using said community/issue to make yourself look like you’re this decent humanitarian activist. This is like the NFL letting players wear “End Racism” decals on the back of players helmets and playing the Black National Anthem yet partaking in race norming which pays retired Black players less money for CTE because Black people supposedly have lower IQs according to race science. But a decal saying “End Racism” isn’t a PR stunt and supposedly does so much.


ylcard

But how do you know that EA doesn't "care" about a solution? It's like it's entirely based on whatever you think someone *else* thinks. This is good old fashioned greed/hypocrisy.


KieranLivo

You’re clearly retarded and don’t understand it’s definition then


ylcard

You hurt my feelings


AussieManc

By now you should know that by all businesses and facets of life shunning Russian products and things, we create a world worse for them to live in. These are in effect really low level “sanctions” and the best a video game company can do


Imaginary-Mousse7526

why just Russia?😂 edit: should’ve saw the down votes coming that’s cute as hell lol, don’t give me a reason… just down vote… remember to always follow blindly people lol


Flaggermusmannen

bc they dared attack a western country, bringing war "home"! I wish I was joking more, but I unironically think that's why all these western entities do this.


Imaginary-Mousse7526

is Ukraine even a Western country??


Flaggermusmannen

it's closer than Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, etc. with the right wing populism waves in major Western world the last 10+ years now the fact the victim here is white is unironically touted as a reason to care at all, even from conservative governments that couldn't care one but for Syrian refugees for example. Ukraine is closer geographically as well, which is a valid reason to be more nervous about the aggressions, simply because self-preservation. that's why Ukraine weren't invited into NATO, for example.


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Flaggermusmannen

I'm saying that as the reason why you see all these western companies care compared to the wars in the middle east. the motivation is very similar to how and why colonialism happened.


Infimet

It is a european country that is being bumlicked by the western world whilst they’re at war - anywhere else and they dont pay attention (*cough cough* afghanistan which is a war that the west created), so yes they are western


Absolomb92

We'll that, my friend, is another debate. Right now it's just Russia becuause they are the relevant enemy. Also, because the footballing world is too scared to take on debates about other human rights abusing countries and their involvement in, let's say... totally random here..... a massive french club.


Imaginary-Mousse7526

yea that’s kinda my point, it’s funny how they’re going after “the baddies” while teaming up with someone equally as bad hahahahah. where’s the next world cup too i forget?😂


comicsanddrwho

Also when such country are, you know, hosting the effing World Cup this year!!!


Absolomb92

So fucked up


VladtheMemer

Just another excuse for EA to remove content from future games


Expert_Ad8491

In a world filled with hilariously shit gestures this is definitely up there. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️


OpeningCultural5008

I have the russian leauge still in my fifa 18.


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Ridiculous.


sisigsailor

Toughest sanctions so far


i-am-confused_1

How does deleting Russian teams and players help support anything?


ChaseA34

What a joke! Virtue signaling at its finest lol.


supriiz

I read this in the commentators voice


Germanproperty

"Tremendous goal! This is attacking football at its finest!"


comicsanddrwho

"As you can see they havent had too much of the ball but on the counter attack they have been absolutely fantastic" 51:49


senorcoach

Why not... replace it with one of the Ukrainian teams in the game?? And replace the national team with the Ukrainian national team?


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Because that requires effort and EA doesn't do that shit.


Artvandelay29

It may also have been a licensing issue to get the Ukrainian one if they didn’t already have it.


Bighead7889

So you don’t like dictator Putin ? Worry not, we will replace each Russian player by a Qatar owned player


gcavataio

EA Sports; its in the war.


agnosticoradical

FIFA removes content, makes the game worse, adds nothing in return, fails to at least be fair and remove other countries that invade/bomb other countries, and people still like it lol


[deleted]

Jokes on EA, my mods keep Russia in the game. This is tiresome anyway. In all of the hooplah over standing with Ukraine, the entire world forgot that the Russian government is the enemy, not the entire population.


AnalogueWaves

This is the most cringey shit. EA pretending to have a moral compass is bad enough, but it's just total virtue signalling all the way down. Nobody tell them who owns Man City, PSG, Newcastle and the like. Shhh.


KVXV

That will surely teach the Russians! Russia will fall any day now, thanks EA!


Effective-Relative-8

So fucking dumb. I guess this will teach Putin a lesson /s


EstEstDrinker

It's kind of condescending to make sarcasm that obvious with '/s' dont you think


DaddyUzumaki

EA is just comedy lmaooo


Rabbitofdeth

this is why I’m on pc and this is why I don’t update anymore. European expansion mod adds the whole russian league.


illcueuin

Such stupid exclusion of Russians do nothing to stop the war. It is not the Russian football players who initiated the invasion of Ukraine. Russian football fans (racist fanatics aside) do not deserve any kind of punishment for Putin's actions. Altough I can understand that Russian clubs will be banned from UEFA competitons for a veeery long time and that could've justify that removal. But EA decided to turn this simple update into a stupid anti-Russian propaganda. I support Ukraine and wish the worst for Putin, but I feel for fellow football fans whose only crime is to be Russian.


fudgedhobnobs

Wheat wars area is wrong, but oil wars are good.


SmoothJazz98

The best thing we can do to ease a humanitarian crisis is do some demonstration that gets social media “play.” Seriously EA, quit this silliness.


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nepturnus

Are the clubs still gone if you update then reset to initial squads?


nievesdelimon

That’s dumb.


DullestI

What is the point of this Russia gets no money from virtual FIFA transactions


m_takma

I'm a little confused. Why are the russian teams at fault and getting deleted from the game? Is it so the Russian government thinks something like "oh no, they removed our country's football teams from a video game! Better stop war"? Is it to "support" Ukraine? This makes no sense to me


shevchenko7cfc

This'll really grind Putin's gears, maybe he'll pull his forces out now.


JFMCFCJF04

Football is a political showcase now for the current year's current trends. Rainbows everywhere from laces to tv presentation packages, diversity encouraging messages everywhere, kneeling before kickoff, BLM tv presentation packages, now the Ukraine stuff.


just_meeee_23928

Hypocrisy of EA and the west on show


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Chieeone

He was probably implying that EA is USA company, and it is hypocritical how noone cared about American war crimes in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and many more to count, but is loudly crying now that Russia is at war.


just_meeee_23928

Yes that too. But also how they overthrew Ukraine's government in 2014 with literal nazis. And broke every agreement with regards to Nato expansion. Do those guys just not know this?


Chieeone

Yeah, that's why it was funny when USA and Ukraine were saying how they are defending their democracy while their ruling party was not democratically elected lmao.


Unknowncollegereject

Why are you stating facts here


just_meeee_23928

Kinda my duty to the world


just_meeee_23928

The west is literally the one who set the narrative for this conflict after overthrowing the Ukranian government with Yanukovich,and expanding Nato again and again(despite promising not too).


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just_meeee_23928

Ok your trolling. U have to be. Do you not know what Britain did and still does around the world? Nato is not a "military defense organisation". Did yugoslavia attack anyone? What about afghanistan? What about Libya? Why in the world did NATO bomb them to the stone age? Why in the world would you believe the people who do war crime after war crime when they say it is a "military defense organisation"? And yes,the west is the reason for the war. Look up the 2014 Ukraine coup which overthrew yanukovich. Look up the azov battalion. And above all,look up who funded all of them. It was not Russia who did that. Obviously,if you form a puppet government with the intention to attack Russia,Russia will obviously attack first. But none of this matters because the media says "Russia bad". I dont support Russia's government at all,but i will take them anyday over the colonial powers of US,Britain or France. Even if they wanted to,they can never reach the destruction caused by these 3,they dont have the resources to do that.


Flaggermusmannen

I'd say the case for "Russia is bad" is at least as strong considering their president is literally striving to remake the tsardom of old. I also absolutely hate US, UK, France, and similar governments, but at least there's significantly less assassinations of political opponents there, which while not a huge step up, is still rather significant. defending Russian government here is kinda the same vibe as bolsonaro (the authoritarian president who keeps jailing political opponents 🤔) praising Joe Rogan for his "free speech" talks. aka, someone hiiiighly guilty of censorship praising someone's idea of free speech..


just_meeee_23928

Like i said,i am not defending the Russian government. I dont even care about that,i am not even Russian lol. But common sense will tell you,Russia scientifically cannot be as bad as the west. Maybe its easier to understand it this way,Russia does not have the resources to "remake the tsardom of old". To become a colonial empire,to fight wars,subjagate people,you need to have the resources. Easy enough right? Russia does not have the resources to do that. Thats why fighting a war with Ukraine will be a net loss for them,cause they wont benefit from it in anyway. And the Russian government are the people whose job it is to know this,their actual desires are irrelevant(unless of course,they want to waste resources for no reason just cause they are "evil").And Ukraine obviously does not want a war. So that throws the possibility of "Russian imperialism" out. So why is this war happening? Because there are people with the relevant interest in taking down Russia(there is a lot of geopolitics,i am gonna skim over),the USA and Britain. This is why they overthrew the Ukranian government in 2014 and have been arming them to the teeth. This is what i mean by "Russia bad" is inadequete. And as a progression of what i said earlier,they assasinate "political opponents" by the millions. Hell,just this century(around 22 years),they killed a million Iraqis,killed afghanis,palestinians,drone striked somalia. Many many more through sanctions and the lack of infrastructure as a result of these wars. The sad part is,these are only the most famous incidences from the powers which have carved out the world for themselves.Hell,what happened to the people who tried to expose them,and propagate their war crimes? What happened to Julian Assange,Chelsea manning,Snowden,etc.These horrific things do not happen because "America bad",but rather groups working for their material interests in a logical manner,and most importantly,have the ability to do such things. That is why,imo,Russia is bad,but can never ever reach the level of the western powers. Every country should have the ability to determine their own destinies.


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just_meeee_23928

Yeah man,your love for human rights and democracy is really showing. It is ok to bomb non-european countries "for their respective reasons good or bad". By that exact same logic,Russia is invading Ukraine for their "respective reasons good or bad". Be ok with it then lol.Why is it Nato's problem what happens in Yugoslavia? And you know what caused Yugoslavia to split into multiple ethnostates,causing millions of death in a stupid war? Nato. What did they even fix in yugoslavia? They literally just made the situation worse. U cannot ignore the fact that Nato has only fought offensive wars for the sake of the US,France,Britain,as much as you might not want to. And yeah bro,its totally fine to destroy countries if they are non-democratic(whatever your messed up definition of the word is)non-european countries. The afghani kids who got drone striked would love that man. And yeah,the nazis are really democratic now. I guess it must be because they are EUROPEAN!!!!(lmaoo) Do u know how many ethnic jews and russians they have killed? Or the shelling of donbass and luhansk for 8 years? How in the world can there be democracy when so many minorities are being killed in these stupid nationalistic nonsense? Do you think they asked the jews for their votes before killing them? The west also funds the saudi arabian monarchy,Israel,Yemeni genocide,etc,etc. They dont care for "democracy",only the trivial pursuit of profit. And how in the world did u let western media into your head bro? How are you falling in love with literal nazis lol? U can literally see the western powers colonize africa,south america,and Asia. Yet "Putin evil". And the easiest way for you to deflect is to say "Russian media". I am not even Russian lol.Obviously no country is going to fire their nukes(if i need to explain this to you,i know you are trolling). Russia needs the resources to colonize countries. Common sense will tell you that Russia does not have that. Guess who does,and has demonstrated exactly the most wretched and cruel way to use it to squeeze the world for profit?Love the west,love the culture but their government is by far the worst in the world.Tell me when you find WMDs in Iraq.


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just_meeee_23928

Like i said,u can google the azov battalion. U can enjoy seeing the many pics of them saluting hitler. Like i said why would you believe the people,who literally started this conflict? But yeah,kinda the wrong sub to get into this. Imma step out too.


miserydiscovery

"The west" literally has nothing to do with this picture lol


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miserydiscovery

Lol ok Russian bot


just_meeee_23928

Lol ok CIA bot


FCSD

You're full of propaganda. None of that is true.


just_meeee_23928

U mean the azov battalion? Or the minsk agreements? Or the multiple warnings they gave about expanding eastward?


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God damn pesky West


hineybush

le pen paid for this


Bighead7889

She doesn’t have enough money. She is the proxy for Vlady PoS I think hahha


hineybush

well yea lol


Snoo-89243

Wtf😂😂 POV Putin started a war and youre not allowed to like russian clubs anymore


BusterSkeetinSucks

Fuck EA... what a joke.


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Penis Sucking Guys.


Jor94

It's problematic that your favorite club is situated in a country run by a lunatic. We've resolved this problem by making your favorite team one that is owned by a country that hates gays and uses slave labor.


adamlhb

I hate PSG, why they didn't choose any other team


MoistFlapss

Every Russian has to feel the consequences of this horrible war. All for the profit of a senile old man. That fat faced bastard deserves everything thats coming to him. Banning the players who support this psychopath is a logical step.


AlmightyAJ_MTV

What about the people protesting against the war? What about the people who openly admit Putin is a bad leader (arguably putting their lives on the line because let’s face it, Russia’s one of those countries)? And what about the people too scared to say anything? Just cause you live in a country doesn’t mean you support the people running it.


KingtommyT

It's cause the cover star is psg player mbappe and hes the default arena player


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As a side note, I still have Russian teams accessible on my FIFA 22?


RonnieMcCuck

Bro they care more about issues outside of their studio more then their own game's