EA Sports Football Club is for FIFA, despite what you may have thought

by Ben Gilbert on Jun 6th 2011 4:43PM

Maybe someone didn't send EA a memo, but here in America, we call our soccer, soccer. Apparently in the whole rest of the world (or something), people call it "football." Pffft. Whatever.

Anyway, EA Sports announced a new social client for FIFA gamers launching with FIFA 12, known as "Football Club," this morning. The service is said to track "status, bragging rights and progression," allowing players to access their cross-game stats from FIFA titles. Think Bungie Pro or Call of Duty Elite, but, ya know, without the paid part. Thats right -- it's free! Football Club will launch with FIFA 12 this fall, right here.

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Tags: e3-2011, ea, ea-sports, ea-sports-football-club, electronic-arts, fifa-12, fifa-soccer-12, football-club, statistics

Reader Comments (66)

Drake and Lil Wayne had no business being in that video.

@MGTrey
They must have a interest in virtual ball kicking. :/

they have no business being in anything.

@PedoJokerBear: Then I hope you weren't planning on buying Gears of War 3.

@MGTrey

Gears? Yuck, no thanks.

@PedoJokerBear If only I could up vote you more

@MGTrey

Futbol as it is called outside of the US is the correct name for the sport...Soccer is just something that some guy sneezed out when asked if he was sorry about something.

Substitute "you" with "americans" in the title and you're right :P

I call it Football, mainly because it pisses off my die-hard NFL friends. I like to call NFL "handegg"

@TheAngryIntern

I like to call it tackle ball with a thick Spanish accent, but I watch too much spanish language TV.

Foot + ball = Football
Basket + ball = Basketball
Base(s) + Ball = Baseball

Hand + Egg = Handegg which is pretty much what American football is.

@KiDPANDA

Urbandictionary.com has an eloquent breakdown of the use "Handegg"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=handegg

@KiDPANDA
Preach bro Preach...

@KiDPANDA Actally the correct name for American Football is "Grid Iron."

Or "S**t Rugby"

I thought Bungie Pro was only for additional upload slots/space and converting fileshare clips to WMV files for Windows. I mean, last I knew all their status, progression, bragging rights, and cross-game stats were free on bungie.net... or has my mind forsaken me?

@sonicspike41
Nope you're right on the money, Bungie Pro isn't only for video conversion & increasing online storage for game media.

Also isn't Call of Duty Elite's progression free too? I didn't bother reading much on the article but from what I saw the bragging rights part is free.

I call it Football...

AMERICA, F#CK YEAH!

@CaptainProtonX
CANADA, RICK MORANIS!

I've always wondered, why does the rest of the world call soccer football?

@ItsameMatt03

Because football has existed to the rest of the world for centuries, while american football started in the late 1800s... Which was a bastardization of real football. Contrary to belief, America didn't invent everything and was the first for about nothing until the later half of the 1900s.

@Punkrawk Bbob
I thought it was a bastardisation of rugby.

@ItsameMatt03

Just reflex downvoting, I'm hoping. I'm taking the question as an honest one (though it might be better as why do we/Americans call it soccer). People play a bunch of games that all shared the name, but when you want a sport to grow, you've got to standardize rules and the like. So rugby's one, Australian Rules is another, American Football came from the same thing, and football/soccer. The "soccer" name is short for Association Football which promoted one set of rules. We trace most of our rules from the Brits, but the oldest evidence of a bunch of guys kicking a round thing around a field is from China in the BC era.

@ItsameMatt03
Because you actually use your foot to play the game at least 95% of the time...ergo FOOTBALL!....the other sport called football in america....uses the foot 5% of the time.

@Assmar

Actually football came from Rugby and American Football as well apparently.

Rugby was actually called football in the beginning but when it split due to differences in what the rules should be they realized it would be a bit silly to call football to something you played mostly with your hands.

As for american football... well, it doesn't look like they came to the same logical conclusion and insist on calling football "soccer". :)

@Streeks1984

And the other 5% of the time, they act like they got shot by a hunting rifle.

@Streeks1984

Actually the term football was originally termed to differentiate between sports played "on foot" (early versions of rugby and assoctiation football) as opposed to games played on horseback(Polo, fox hunting, etc.) ehich were played by wealthier people. American football evolved from Rugby and involves the players playing "on foot" 100% of the time just like soccer/association football.

@Dextro

Soccer was originally a British term derived from "association" in Association Football to help distinguish it from Rugby Football. Some places in the world still often refer to Rugby as football.

@maemikemae

Please don't ruin people's snobbiness with actual facts.

@Vcize

My Apologies kind sir, let me try again...

The only TRUE Football is the one where you knock down all the pins with a really heavy ball! Stupid everyone-else-in-the-world-but-me seem to be calling it "bowling" though. Idiots.

Is that better?

This put me in mind of EA Sports Bio back in 2004 or so.

EA clearly missed a trick not calling it Goallog though. Then Madden could have Touchdownlog. Pucklog, Punchlog....

Its perfectly appropriate to call it soccer, considering that's a British term. Soccer will never be "football" to most Americans. That term is already taken.

Only America would call a game played with your hands, football....
Well we already knew most of America couldn't find their state on a map, guess it seems they can't find their foot on a body either.

@Scuba Steve

Oh you soccer fans. Its too bad your sport is played by the softest athletes that aren't golfers. A strong breeze can garner a yellow card.

@SisypheanLife
maybe because they dont wear shoulder-pads and helmts?

@alzeer

Neither do Rugby players. And football players, even with their helmets and pads, hit each other hard enough to simulate car accidents.

Man's game.

Well Joystiq - YOU in the US are in the minority so get with the programme. In this game you actually kick a ball with your feet, not carry it round in your arms in your padded sissy suits - thus the term football is actually correct for this sport and not a contradiction - like in yours.

@spikey58

yeah i bet you play all the manly sports over there in nowhere land.

we'll try to enjoy our multibillion dollar contradiction.

@PR0F3TA

LOOOL You arrogant twat.

y en espa~ol k? se llama futbol pero nunca use mi "fut"... e usado mis pies.

the foot = football argument is sorta invalid anywhere but europe i think.

@PR0F3TA

Not when the game has English origins, mi'jo.

Just what does FIFA means?

"International Federation of Association Football (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association)"

Enjoy your Handegg.

@Soiden

Can't there's a lockout :)

James Milner is a fat cow.

EA is global... they market their games to the whole world... and since people in all countries call it Football then its F%^$ing football.

Seriously I don't get it why Americans call it soccer and gives the name "Football" to a sport where players hold the ball in their hands, throw it with their hands and occasionally just for a small amount of time during that game they kick the ball with their feet. How I see it is that it should be called Handball... oh wait thats already taken :S

@redserpent7

Americans aren't going to change the name of football for the same reason other fans aren't going to call their sport soccer.

@SisypheanLife

Well football was invented before America was charted on a map ;)

@redserpent7

Except soccer or futbol or whatever was never called football because you play the game with your feet. It originated from the original football which was called such because you played the game not with your feet, but ON your feet (IE not on a horse).

Was hoping for the announcement of spectator mode. Me and my friends luke to party up andplay this but ussually the games don't end at same time so were stuck just listening to the other matches.

Like not luke

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