Diego Maradona, one of the crucial famend soccer gamers in historical past, has been faraway from FIFA 22. His removing is tied to authorized disagreements, in keeping with an announcement launched by EA Sports activities.
“As a consequence of a 3rd get together authorized dispute, we should droop Diego Maradona from showing in FIFA Final Workforce Packs, Final Draft, and the Soccer Support World XI staff,” reads the announcement, which could be discovered in-game. “As such, Diego Maradona ICON Objects will now not be made accessible in Packs, SBCs and FUT Draft, and their worth vary has been mounted till additional discover.”
The Argentinian legend was added to the sport as part of the FUT Icon pack, which incorporates a few of the finest gamers in soccer historical past. The participant, who died in November 2020, possessed a few playing cards, that includes him in numerous levels of his profession. Naturally, Maradona’s playing cards have been extremely highly effective and have been drastically valued by FIFA gamers. Within the in-game market, the playing cards of the participant are a few of the costliest to acquire.
There may be hope that Maradona will return to the sport sooner or later, nevertheless. “We share our followers’ disappointment and hope to convey certainly one of soccer’s best icons again within the recreation sooner or later sooner or later,” EA Sports activities stated.
The official reasoning behind eradicating Maradona in FIFA 22 isn’t recognized, although there was some hypothesis relating to the subject. In November 2021, Argentinian information web site Infobae, by way of Eurogamer, stated that EA Sports activities had signed a deal to the rights for Maradona together with his good friend and former supervisor, Stéfano Ceci, who apparently didn’t have the authorized rights to the participant. These are supposedly owned by Sattvica, an organization belonging to a lawyer named Matías Morla.