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Dutch football club Ajax has signed FIFA player Koen Weijland, becoming the latest team to enter the world of eSports. The five time Dutch champion has been ranked as the best player in the world in 2010, 2011 and 2015 and will now represent Ajax at all future tournaments. He …
Read More »Sporting Lisbon enters eSports with top Portuguese FIFA player
Portugese football club Sporting Lisbon has entered the eSports world by signing top Portuguese FIFA player Francisco "Quinzas" Cruz. The 21 year old player has been in the FIFA scene since he was just 14, and became the youngest ever FIFA World Champion in 2011. Cruz is one of the …
Read More »Manchester City sign FIFA player
Manchester City today announced the signing of Kieran ‘Kez’ Brown, a professional FIFA player. Kez becomes the first eSports player in the Manchester City organisation, and will be creating video content for the City YouTube channel and streaming on Twitch. Of course he will also represent the club at tournaments …
Read More »FC Schalke 04 signs multiple FIFA players
After signing a League of Legends team last month German football club FC Schalke 04 has signed three FIFA players. The team is made up of Joshua Krone” Begehr, a former world champion, Mario Viska, who has seen success over in Germany and Cihan Yasarlar, who has been competing at …
Read More »West Ham United sign FIFA player Sean "Dragonn" Allen
Premier League football club West Ham United have signed their first eSports player, Sean Dragonn” Allen. Allen is a professional FIFA player, and considered to be one of the top competitors in the world. He came second at the 2016 FIFA interactive World Cup, where he narrowly lost to Mohamad …
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