The FIFA Interactive World Cup has been known to produce a lot of excitement and drama. This year's tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain and for the first time ever in the competition, the championship was won by an American. We had the opportunity to sit down with FIWC winner Nenad Stojkovic for his thoughts on winning the tournament.
With only a week to go until the UK Champion is crowned at the Emirates and their name gets added to the attendance list for the Global Finals in Barcelona things have been heating up nicely. The last online pre-qualifier has been completed and James Barrett now joins his brother Michael at the UK Final on the 22nd so there will certainly be some rivalry.
With Christmas now a distant memory and everyone looking forward into 2010, here is a quick update on what has happened in the land of FIFA Interactive World Cup since the first UK pre-qualifying at Loftus Road and The Emirates.
OK, time for another FIFA Interactive World Cup update from me and some pretty good news for all those that are interested in hosting their own leagues and cups.
Right then. FIFA Interactive World Cup. Yep, you guessed it, this blog (and subsequent ones) is going to act as the information point for the FIWC activities in the UK.
Last week the FIFA team welcomed the North American FIFA Interactive World Cup Champion, Joe Guastella, to the studios at EA Canada. There he got his hands on FIFA 10 - check out the video to see what he thought.
David Rutter
is the Line Producer for FIFA 11 on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. A lifelong football fan, David supports Leicester and Hitchin Town. In addition to playing FIFA, Rutter also enjoys CoD, GRAW, and NHL.
Aaron McHardy
is responsible for gameplay design on FIFA 11. He did that on FIFA 08, 09 and 10, too. A professional footballer prior to working at EA, Aaron displayed his skills for the motion-capture cameras on FIFA Street and FIFA Street 2.
Marcel Kuhn
is a producer on FIFA 11 with a big focus on the all-new Career Mode. Prior to EA, Marcel worked for a marketing agency in Germany for several years and, later, worked for a comic publisher.
Romily Broad
is community manager for EA SPORTS Football World. Principally, that means he gets to play FIFA a lot and claim that it's actual work. Between games he also brings us the weekly FIFA podcast and all the cool stuff you might find over at EASPORTSFootball.com.
Christophe Labrune
came to EA Canada from France in 2001 and, after some time in QA and localistion, joined the FIFA crew for FIFA 2004. He was Online Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360 and now runs the Football Live Team for the FIFA series. If you're a forumite, you'll find him there as "EA_FLT".
Stevie Morgan
has worked in sports broadcasting for the past 12 years, despite always being picked last for football at school. He has also founded a support group for fellow fans of Southampton FC who, like him, have found things a bit much over the past few years and are suffering from post-Premiership depression.
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