Erling Haaland has been made the main image on the front cover of FC24, the first EA Sports football game since the company left the FIFA brand.
The Record Breaker has been unveiled as the main cover star for the standard edition of the game days after Ultimate Edition Cover was blasted for having over 30 famous stars from football past and present on their cover.
EA Sports created the popular FIFA video games series, but following the expiration of their contract with world’s governing body, they created FC – same game with different title.
Erling Haaland tweeted as he unveiled the honor, saying: “Every footballer dreams of this. Proud to be on the cover for the first season of a new era @EASPORTSFC #FC24”.
FC24 is set to be released on 29th September, 2023, on the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch platforms.
EA FC 24 Ultimate Edition pre-orders will get seven days early access, starting from September 22, as well as a raft of other benefits.
The game’s version will be coming with dual entitlement – so PS5 users can play on their PS4, and there is cross-platform compatibility for Xbox fans too.
Erling Haaland
Erling Braut Haaland is a Norwegian footballer who was born on 21 July, 2000 and is a center-forward for Manchester City and the Norway national team.
The youngster is seen as one of the best players in the world and he is known for his speed, strength, positioning, and finishing inside the box.
The Norwegian is best known to breaking records and he has broken a couple of records in his football career.
Haaland became the first teenager to score goals in five consecutive UEFA Champions League matches when he was still at Salzburg in 2019/20.
The Manchester City attacker was also the top scorer of the Champions League for the 2020/21 season.
Erling Haaland won the Golden Boy award in the year 2020, and in 2021 he was named the Bundesliga Player of the Season and also included in the FIFA FIFPro World11 in 2021 and 2022.
He has continued to break records since he joined Premier League side City from Dortmund for a transfer fee of €60 million (£51.2 million).
The records he has broken in the Premier League include; most goals scored in a season, the quickest individual to score two, three and four hat-tricks, and the first player in the league’s history to score hat-tricks in three consecutive home games.
EA Sports FC24
EA Sports FC 24 is an upcoming football video game, which is set to be published by developer Electronic Arts.
The game will be an inaugural installment in the EA Sports FC series following the end of EA’s partnership with FIFA.
The game is being developed by EA Sports and is set to launch worldwide on 29 September 2023 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
The cover was recently launched for the Ultimate Edition of the forthcoming game – featuring over 30 of the game’s greats, past, present, and future.
The game also includes Premier League, LaLiga, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga icons, international superstars from throughout the decades in their famous national colors, and a raft of women’s players alongside their male counterparts.
Some fans were particularly disappointed with the rebrand and the graphics of the image, and the graphics revealed by Monday’s short teaser trailer.
Other fans went ahead to blast the omission of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe from the trailer.
Well, the appearance of Haaland on the cover cannot be called into question as he enjoyed a massive season that saw him break many records.
Erling Haaland scored 52 goals in 53 games during an unreal debut season for Manchester City, as they won the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in the 2022-2023 season.
Players featured on the EA Sports FC24 Ultimate Edition Cover
- Sam Kerr
- Leah Williamson
- Alex Scott
- David Beckham
- Alexia Putellas
- Marta
- Vinicius Jr
- Federico Chiesa
- Jude Bellingham
- Trinity Rodman
- Leicy Santos
- Zinedine Zidane
- Alex Popp
- Son Heung-Min
- Erling Haaland
- Youssoufa Moukoko
- Selma Bacha
- Virgil van Dijk
- Marcus Rashford
- Johan Cruyff
- Didier Drogba
- Bukayo Saka
- Ronaldinho
- Victor Omishen
- Juan Roman Riquelme
- Alexander Isak
- Mia Hamm
- Andrea Pirlo
- Enzo Fernandez
- Marquinhos
- Pele
