Footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic is currently in a fight for players’ rights in the console game FIFA.
When he’s not in a hurry to plan goals for AC Milan in Italian football, Zlatan Ibrahimvic is currently spending time with the gaming giant Electronic Arts.
The company behind the world’s most popular football game FIFA ended up in the Swede’s spotlight on Monday, when he questioned how they could actually project his familiar face onto the TV screens of millions of people.
– Who gave EA Sports permission to use my name and face? FIFPro (The International Players’ Association, ed. )? I do not know if I am a member of FIFPro, and if I am, I became so without any real knowledge through a strange maneuver, writes Zlatan Ibrahimovic on his Twitter profile.
Who gave FIFA EA Sport permission to use my name and face? @FIFPro? I’m not aware to be a member of Fifpro and if I am I was put there without any real knowledge through some weird manouver.
And for sure I never allowed @FIFAcom or Fifpro to make money using me— Zlatan Ibrahimović (@Ibra_official) November 23, 2020
Someone makes money on my name and face without any agreement in all those years. It’s time to investigate, the attacker continues in another tweet and has since also pointed out that he is not actually a member of FIFPro.
Ibrahimovic has been joined by Tottenham player Gareth Bale, who writes:
– Interesting … What is FIFPro? #TimeToInvestigate.
Now up to 300 players are considering going to court because they feel that EA Sports is exploiting them in their console games, says Mino Raiola, who is the agent of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and one of the most powerful in the corners of the football world.
– The system is wrong and this is a match Zlatan will take for all players, Raiola says in an interview with The Telegraph.
Subsequently, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has shared the table below of EA’s earnings on the FIFA games.
@EASPORTS, @FIFPro and @FIFAcom do not OWN me. But I believe they OWE me. About time me and my fellow players get some explanations of what is going on pic.twitter.com/JcIpsGBWWp
— Zlatan Ibrahimović (@Ibra_official) November 25, 2020
Neither EA Sports, FIFPro nor FIFA own me, but I think they owe me. It is time for me and my colleagues to get an explanation of what is going on, Ibrahimovic writes on Twitter.
You are complaining to the wrong people
In the midst of the crossfire, game developer Electronic Arts has responded. The company behind the popular FIFA games says that the rights issues the players point out on social media do not concern EA or EA Sports.
